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CVC

Framework for Scaling

Student Equity & Success

in Distance Education

Online Teaching Conference

June 29, 2022

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What is the CVC?

“…a collaborative effort among California Community Colleges (CCCs) to ensure that significantly more students are able to complete their educational goals by increasing both access to, and success in, high-quality online courses.”

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The CVC Portfolio

  • Student Services / Student Experience�
  • Systemwide Technology Access Collaborative (STAC)

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CVC.EDU

  • The CVC Exchange
  • Academic Affairs
  • Online Network of Educators (@ONE)

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Framework for Scaling Student Equity & Success in DE:

The “Why”

# of sections - # of courses

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The Framework Goal

Support colleges in scaling quality distance education programs, holistically, to drive student equity and success.

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Example: Current Local POCR

Local Peer Online Course Review (POCR)

    • Alignment earns instructor + course a “Quality Reviewed” badge in CVC Exchange
    • Current mechanisms: Course Design Academy and Local Peer Online Course Review (POCR)

Impact as of June 2022:

    • 38,328 online courses offered in CCCs (2020)
    • 28 colleges who are Local POCR certified; 25 colleges in-process
    • 946 courses aligned to @ONE Course Design Rubric (2.5% of 2020 courses)

Goals:

    • Scale impact by training, supporting and empowering colleges
    • Add emphasis on online teaching, student services, administration & infrastructure

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Example: Future Local POCR

Conceptual Shift:

  • CVC will shift its resources away from the direct assessment of courses, to focus more broadly on training, supporting and empowering each college’s Local POCR team to do that work.

Future State:

  • Colleges with a certified local POCR program are empowered to self-award Quality Review Badges
  • College without an existing POCR program have 2 pathways to self-badging:
  • Pursue @ONE Local POCR certification (with the conceptual shift described above)
  • Pursue the validation/equivalency of local professional development programs utilizing @ONE’s Course Design Competencies and companion resources (e.g. Course Design Rubric)

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Expanding Our Perspective - OLC Quality Scorecards

Administration / Infrastructure:

          • OLC Administration of Online Programs Quality Scorecard

Student Services:

      • OLC Online Student Support Scorecard

Instruction:

      • OLC Course Design
      • Teaching Quality Standards

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The (draft) Scaling Quality Framework

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Contextualized Scorecards (Standards)

Guided Self Assessment

Improved Online Student Equity & Success

Intervention Resources

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Vision for Success:

  • Core Commitment Goals
  • College-Level Goals

Supporting System Priorities

  • System-Wide Goals

AB705 Goals

Student-Centered

Funding Formula

Student Equity & Achievement Goals

Strong Workforce

Program Goals

ACCJC Accreditation

Guided Pathways Goals

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Our Process

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Administration

Student Support

Instruction

  • Workgroup: 27 members from 25 colleges.

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  • Regular meetings during Fall 2021

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Learning Sessions: Spring 2022

  • Small groups
  • 9 volunteers from instructional workgroup
      • Representing 8 colleges ranging from 15,000-60,000 students
  • 2 groups (4, 5)
  • 2 one-hour sessions in Zoom
  • Pre-scripted questions

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Prototype Site

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Draft

PD Principles & Competencies

Foundational | Growth

Feedback welcome!

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What we learned …

  1. Prototype site = “Now I understand what this project is about.”
  2. An institutional quality framework for DE holds many opportunities for our system
    • Community, collaboration, validation, organizational/staffing data generation, awareness of systemic strengths and needs
  3. OLC Scorecards are useful for some institutions, but not so relevant to CCCs
  4. PD principles/competencies
    • Comprehensive and relevant to our system’s values
    • Merging design and online teaching under a single umbrella is a good move
  5. Challenges: initiative fatigue, lack of resources and support

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Process Recommendations for CVC

  1. Keep working on the title
  2. Develop stronger relationships with institutional leaders (who are not DE-specific)
  3. Provide clear instructions and use-case scenarios
  4. Data - Use it to anchor the framework and contextualize it as a data collection tool for colleges and for CVC
  5. Make interconnections with campus plans explicit
  6. Incorporate the values of community and collaboration in the framework itself and the processes in which it is used

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Recommendations for Success Cards

  1. Revise the OLC Instruction and Admin success cards to make them more relevant to CCCs and more useful as a self-evaluation tool
  2. Include a scale after each element to require reflection (not just a checkbox)
  3. Replace subjective language (i.e. “ensures”) with clear, measurable deliverables
  4. Include links to examples/resources

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Bob Nash

Dean, Academic Affairs &

Professional Development

bnash@cvc.edu

Thank You!

https://cvc.edu/

Marina Aminy

Executive Director

maminy@cvc.edu

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Michelle Pacansky-Brock

Faculty Mentor, Online Teaching & Learning

mpb@cvc.edu

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