Washington community and technical colleges competency-based business transfer degree webinar focusing on curriculum development, faculty and completion coach roles

1. CBE Business DTA Pilot
--curriculum, faculty and completion coaches
October 22, 2014

2. Competency-Based Program
• Students must demonstrate mastery of
explicit competencies to receive credit
• Students receive constant support
based on their individual learning needs
• Learning, not time, is the determining
factor
(Adapted from Christensen Institute)

3. The Goal
• A Business Transfer Degree
– Competency based
– Completely online
– Openly licensed (CC BY)
– Six-month term with multiple start dates
– Full time equivalent tuition ($2667 plus fees)
– Students work at their own pace, completing as
many credits as they are able during each term
– Available January 2015

4. Pilot Colleges
• Columbia Basin—lead
• Bellevue
• Centralia
• Everett
• Green River
• Olympic
• Pierce Colleges (2)
• Tacoma

5. The Elements
• Students with some college or work
experience
• “Intrusive” advisors at each college
• Completion coaches
– Hired by Columbia Basin for the pilot
consortium
• Disciplinary faculty who teach and assess
– Hired by Columbia Basin for the pilot
consortium

6. 18 Courses
• System work group chose high-enrollment
courses that meet the
distribution requirements
• Courses will be transcribed as regular
credits and use open content
• Curriculum and competencies will be
mapped by system faculty

7. Business DTA
ENGL& 101 (English Composition I)
ENGL& 102 (Composition II)
MATH 147 (Finite Math)
MATH& 148 (Business Calculus)
CMST& 220 (Public Speaking)
ENGL& 244 (American Literature I)
ART&100 (Art Appreciation)
ECON& 201 (Micro Economics)
ECON& 202 (Macro Economics)
SOC& 101 (Intro to Sociology)
POLS& 202 (American
Government)
MATH& 146 (Introduction to Stats)
BIOL& 100 (Survey of Biology)
GEOL& 101 (Intro Physical
Geology)
ACCT& 201 (Principles of
Accounting I)
ACCTt&202 (Principles of
Accounting II)
ACCT& 203 (Principles of
Accounting III)
BUS& 201 (Business Law )

8. Lumen Learning
• Leaders in open educational resources
and in CBE
• Helping to build openly licensed courses
and adaptive assessments
• Student cost for course materials = $0
For adaptive assessments = $40 per
student per term
• http://lumenlearning.com

9. Curriculum Development
• System faculty will specify the
competencies for each course, with
process facilitation from Lumen
Learning
• The competencies will match the
expected content of the existing transfer
course, and the course will appear on
the student’s transcript as the regular
five-credit course

10. Curriculum Review
• Course competencies will undergo a
public review and comment period, after
which system faculty will address
comments and concerns in the
competency documents with process
facilitation from Lumen Learning
• http://cbewa.org

11. Curriculum Design
• System faculty will select and adapt the
open content to be used with each
competency, with process facilitation
from Lumen Learning
• System faculty will select and adapt the
assessments to be used in the
formative tests that underlie the
courses' adaptive features, with process
facilitation from Lumen Learning

12. Final Assessments
• The teaching faculty who are hired to
teach the courses will develop the final,
summative assessments for the
competencies and finalize the courses,
with process facilitation from Lumen
Learning
• The teaching faculty will administer the
final assessments and assign the grade

13. Final Assessments
• Include all competencies identified for
the course
• Are project- or performance-based
• Administered when student is ready
• Student grades = A (4.0) or B (3.0)
• Other grades per college policies
(Incomplete, Failure, etc.)

14. Teaching
• The teaching faculty will interact directly
with students using elearning tools
(Canvas, Collaborate, Panopto, etc.)
• The competency-based and adaptive
features of the courses will use an
elearning tool called Candela Mastery,
which will be integrated into Canvas

15. Student Completion
• Students will have a competency
dashboard for each course that shows
the required competencies and the
student’s progress toward each one
• The teaching faculty and completion
coaches will work together to assist
students and to keep them on track to
completion

16. License and Review
• All competencies and course content
will be openly licensed (Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 or later)
• Regular updates and improvements will
be made to the curriculum based on a
range of empirical data

17. Faculty Job Announcements
• Columbia Basin is hiring four full-time
and six adjunct faculty for the pilot year
• January through December 2015
• Special faculty contracts
• First consideration closes November 12
• http://agency.governmentjobs.com/colu
mbiabasin/default.cfm

18. First Faculty Cohort
• Four full-time faculty
– English
– Math
– Accounting
– Economics and Business Law

19. First Faculty Cohort
• Six adjunct faculty
– Sociology
– Political Science
– Geology
– Biology
– Public Speaking
– Art

20. Faculty responsibilities
• Complete course development
• Interact with students
• Design, deliver and grade final
assessments
• Work with completion coach to help
students succeed

21. Resources on CBE
• Bloom, Benjamin (1984). “The 2 Sigma Problem: The
Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective
as One-to-One Tutoring.” Educational Researcher,
13:6 (4-16)
• CBEN http://www.cbenetwork.org/competency-based-
education/
• CAEL http://www.cael.org/what-we-do/competency-based-
education
• U of Wisconsin: http://flex.wisconsin.edu/

22. CBE Completion Coach
The next slides will show the student/CBE
Completion Coach relationship
Main responsibility  Support the student
for course and degree completion

23. Columbia Basin College CBE Business Program: Student Process
Enrolled Student – Business Transfer Major

24. CBE Completion Coach - Responsibilities
Before Courses Begin
• Discuss SmarterMeasure results with
students
• Manage application to CBE & acceptance
letter to students
• Sign contract with each student to meet
weekly
• Orientation Course in Canvas (next slide)

25. Student Orientation Course
• Offered in Canvas
• Completely online
• Covers Student Handbook
• How to navigate Canvas, adaptive testing, and
other eLearning tools, e.g., Panopto,
Collaborate, etc.
• How to work with faculty and completion coach

26. CBE Completion Coach - Responsibilities
After Student Begins Courses
• Meets with student weekly
• Refers students to appropriate
resources
• Monitors activity in courses
• Confers with faculty members when
appropriate
• Pacing Chart  Course Completion

27. Find Out More
• Blog: http://cbewa.org
• Listserv:
http://lists.ctc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbe
• Job announcements:
http://agency.governmentjobs.com/colu
mbiabasin/default.cfm

28. Questions?
Connie Broughton
cbroughton@sbctc.edu
Cathy Clary
cclary@columbiabasin.edu