Serving More with Less
Susan Powers
Hilarie Nickerson
Phil Moss
Indiana State University
University of North Carolina
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
MERLOT at ISU
Support of Laptop Initiative
• Main focus at this time
• Goes active Fall 2007
• Address “how to use in the classroom”
questions of faculty
• Blended initiatives to appear “as one”
Faculty Development
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Introduction to MERLOT
How to Use MERLOT
Using MERLOT in the classroom
Extended faculty development with
other MERLOT work
Not Without Challenges
• Difficult to ascertain level of university
support
• Balancing faculty and administration in
MERLOT approaches
• Just “one more thing”
Perspectives from
North Carolina
Hilarie Nickerson
UNC Teaching and Learning
with Technology Collaborative
Public Higher Education
 UNC
 NCCCS
 16 campuses
 58 campuses
 200,000 students
 200,000 FTE
(800,000 headcount)
 10,000 full-time
faculty
 6000 full-time
faculty
Collaboration, Part 1:
Intra-System Initiatives
 NCCCS Common Curriculum Project
 Shared curriculum standards
 Common course library
 Standard course description format
Collaboration, Part 1:
Intra-System Initiatives
 UNC Information Technology Strategy
Project
 Teaching and Learning with Technology
Collaborative
 Shared Services Alliance
 Office of Coordinated Technology
Management
Collaboration, Part 2:
Linking UNC and NCCCS
 Driving factors
 Evolution of distance / e-learning
 Need to support simpler student transitions
between institutions
 State finances
Legislative mandates
Evolution of
Distance / e-Learning
 Correspondence courses
 Telecourses
 Videoconferencing
 NCREN, NCIH
 Course and learning management
systems
 Digital content repositories
Supporting
Student Transitions
 Goal to establish uniform and high quality
access, opportunity, and service
 Agreement to establish and abide by
standards
 Alignment of technical and procedural
solutions
Working Together
in New Ways
 General education articulation agreements
 2+2 programs in specific disciplines
 Additional partners for PreK-20 expansion
 Department of Public Instruction
 NC Virtual Public School
 LEARN NC
 Teacher professional development, AP courses
 Web Academy
 Cumberland County
Legislative Involvement
 E-Learning Commission report
 PreK-20 focus
 Develop high quality instructor training and
support tools
 Develop student support resources
 Establish North Carolina Learning Object
Repository (NCLOR), library of sharable
digital content
Legislative Involvement
 SB622
 2+2 NCCCS / UNC initiative
 Develop online resources for education
programs
 $1 million recurring for NCCCS, $1 million
for UNC
 Later: Recurring for UNC also?
NCCCS / UNC Plans for a
Learning Object
Repository
 Initially, use SB622 2+2 funding to
establish focused LOR
 Resources for online 2+2 education
programs
 Expand to become full NCLOR (PreK-20)
 Join SREB SCORE initiative
 SREB: Southeastern Regional Education Board
 SCORE: Sharable Content Object Repositories in
Education
NCLOR Behind the Scenes
 LMS independent
 Accessible by both commercial and open source
LMS products
 Scalable, with aggregate FTE / enrollment
licensing
 Conform to existing protocols and standards
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Cataloging, metadata, retrieval, sharing
Accessibility, intellectual property
ID management, security
SREB SCORE, IEEE, SCORM, CORDRA
The Oklahoma State System
of Higher Education
Total Educational Revenues per FTE by State:
Percent Change and Current Standing Relative to U.S. Average
40%
% CHANGE: above avg
CURRENT: above avg
MO
% CHANGE: above avg
CURRENT: below avg
WY
RI
30%
Percent Change, FY 1991 - 2004
MD
KY
20%
DE
AL
KS
IL
WVNE
10%
MT
CA
0%
NH
FLMS
-10%
CO
LA
MI
NJ
US
VAOH
AK
CT
NV
TX SD TN
MA
OR GA
NM
NY
MN AR
ME
IN
AZ
WI
IA NC VT
HI
PA
Notes:
1) Figures are adjusted for inflation,
public system enrollment mix, and state
cost of living.
2) Funding and FTE data are for public
non-medical students only.
OK
UTOK
OK ID
ND
-20%
WA
% CHANGE: below avg
CURRENT: below avg
SC
% CHANGE: below avg
CURRENT: above avg
-30%
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1.0
1.1
1.2
Indexed to the U.S. Average in FY 2004
Source: SHEEO SHEF
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
The Oklahoma Challenge
“… by working together, faculty can provide
higher-quality learning experiences in more
cost-effective ways…The product of this
work would be a toolkit of teaching
processes/ materials for voluntary use by
faculty across Oklahoma colleges and
universities…
The Plan
•2 Disciplines
–A specialized, low-enrollment discipline
(Ecology)
–A general, high-enrollment discipline
(Mathematics)
•2 Levels of “Granularity”
–Big
(Course Level)
–Small
(Learning Objects/Modules)
IMPROVING QUALITY
AND REDUCING COSTS:
Redesigning Campus Learning Environments
REDESIGN in Oklahoma
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East Central University
Rogers State University
University of Central Oklahoma
Connors State College
Oklahoma City Community College
Tulsa Community College
Academic Efficiency
The 99% Solution
• Restructuring small fraction of courses
(~1%)
• Modules/Learning Objects  all courses
– Smaller increases in efficiency possible per
course, but in a much larger number of courses.
– Less resource intensive & more flexible than
redesign
INBRE
Questions?