This document outlines the Kaleidoscope 2011-2013 Approach to developing open educational resources (OER) courses to improve student success. It discusses the goals of replacing textbooks with OER and improving student pass rates by over 10%. Faculty serve as subject matter experts and collaboratively develop open course designs using OER. Lumen Learning provides support for course development and implementation across multiple institutions. The results from 2011-2012 impacted over 9,000 students by eliminating textbook costs and improving student performance.
4. NGLC grants target specific
challenges that address barriers
to educational success.
NGLC strives to dramatically
improve college readiness and
completion, particularly for
low-income students and
students of color, by identifying
promising technology solutions.
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5. Kaleidoscope: Goal
Use open educational resources (OER) to improve the
success of at-risk students at multi-institutional scale
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6. Kaleidoscope Approach
• Develop open course designs
• Delivered via multiple learning
environments
• Create full set of open materials for every
outcome
• Implement sound instructional design
• Support architecture of attribution
• Continuously improve using analytics
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7. Kaleidoscope 2011-2012
Results
• Reduced cost of required textbooks to $0
by replacing with OER
• Improved average student success rates
10%+ compared to student performance
in same courses by same instructors in
previous years
• Impacted 9,000+ students
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10. 2011 Discipline Teams
English Comp I
Geography
Biology
Business
Algebra
Psychology
Developmental Reading
Developmental Writing
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11. 2013 Discipline Teams
Accounting
Art
Chemistry
Earth Science
Economics
Educ: Intro
Teaching
English Comp II
Info Systems
*June 2013 Workshop
Marketing
*Math
Music
Online Learning
Poli Sci/US Govt
Sociology
Speech
US History
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12. Defining the Roles: Faculty
Collaborative Course Developer
• Serve as SME – Subject Matter Expert
• Collaborate in course development
• Identify content and assessments
• Align outcomes, content, and
assessments
• Identify and fill gaps in OER
• Supplement existing content if necessary
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13. Defining the Roles: Faculty
Course Adopter
• Teach sections of course
• Offer feedback
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14. Defining the Roles: Lumen
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Support faculty in collaboration
Build and attribute courses
Ensure accessibility
Report project results to NGLC
Provide content analytics
Incorporate feedback for continuous
course improvement
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15. Course Development Support
Professional development
• Mining and vetting OER
• Identify and fill gaps in content
• 4Rs: reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
Open Course Design
• Customization
• Consistency
• Accessibility compliance
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The Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative was founded in 2011 by Kim Thanos and David Wiley.Imageshttp://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/http://www.lumenlearning.com/team
The project received initial funding in 2011 as well as follow-on funding in 2012 from a Next Generation Learning Challenges Wave I grant focused on improving college completion for at-risk students using technology solutions.Screenshot:http://nextgenlearning.org/nglc-overview
Kaleidoscope’s goal is to improve the academic success of at-risk students by:using the best of existing open educational resources, also known as OERimproving student successeliminating textbook costs as a barrier improving learning materials using a continuous, assessment driven enhancement process, andcreating a collaborative community to share learning, investment, and faculty developmentQuote:http://oli.cmu.edu/
The approach centers on creating and adopting open course designs for high-enrollment courses, collaboratively, across multiple institutions, using the best of existing OER and supporting development of the “full instructional package” of open materials. Implementation of sound instructional design, such as what meets Quality Matters initiatives, appropriate author attribution of course materials, and utilization of learning analytics are the drivers for continuous improvement in open content, learning, and instruction.
In the first phase of Kaleidoscope, 11 Gen Ed courses were developed, over 9,000 students participated, therequired textbook cost dropped to $0, and the average change in student success (C or better in the course)reported was +10% some as high as +14%
In 2011, Kaleidoscope’s founding 8 members consisted of community colleges and open access, 4-year schools ranging from California across to New York. I represented Chadron State College, a four-year open enrollment institution in Nebraska, as a Faculty Collaborator in developmental reading, writing, and college success courses.
Today 2 ½ years later, all of us in this room are now a part of the next phase of this growing project – one that has and continues to be one of the most profound experiences of my career.
Identify and fill gaps in OERSupplement existing content if necessaryAny original content licensed CCBYCourse AdopterTeach sections of courseOffer Feedback
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Working together we will empower
Given that faculty collaborators in the initial phase of the project (myself included) had little or no knowledge or experience with OER, including open licensing, mining the wealth of existingOER, and identifying quality OERwere unsure of how to effectively collaborate across institutionswere not strong instructional designers or educational technologists norknew how to utilize learning analytics for continuous improvementit was imperative that the project included OER experts in advisory roles from different organizations. These advisors continue to support the project through the current iteration of our work and beyond.Images:http://www.lumenlearning.com/http://home.byu.edu/home/http://creativecommons.org/http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtmlhttp://www.mit.edu/http://www.aacu.org/http://openstaxcollege.org/http://www.saylor.org/http://www.instructure.com/http://opencourselibrary.org/http://www.ck12.org/teacher/http://nextgenlearning.org/http://www.gatesfoundation.org/http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/