Large Enrollment Course Redesign in Economics

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Large Enrollment Course Redesign in Economics
ECNM 151 Macroeconomics ECNM 152 Microeconomics
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Course Redesign Team

• Instruction

• Instructor Dave Amos
• Teaching Assistant Linda Bake
• Course Liaison Mary Jane Palmer

• Distance Learning

• John Crooks
• Mary Jane Palmer
• Mike Substelny

• Sandy Crobar
• Betty Rhodes

• Instructional Television/Media Services

• Marc Bakst
• Steve Stein
• Rey Torres

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OLN Grant Overview

• 40,000 - redesign Macroeconomics
  Microeconomics
• Fully online course
• 100 students in class
• DVDs with closed captioning
• Instructor rate of pay
• Course Liaison
• Tutoring
• Optional on-campus sessions
• Macroeconomics Fall - Microeconomics Spring

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Effectively Managing a Class With 100 Students

• Require two tests Syllabus/ANGEL and
• Assessment before students can access the
  course
• content
• Address repeated questions in two public
  Discussion
• Forums
• Improve response time by providing a Teaching
• Assistant and Course Liaison
• Provide 10 lectures using high-tech/high-touch
• DVDs, Videostreaming and Podcasting

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Project Evaluation Using Parallel Courses

• One Redesign Section - One Land-Based Section
• Same Instructor
• Same assessment test
• Same textbook
• Same course material available to all students
• Same assignments
• Same tests
• Same grading scale

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Student Success
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Student Success Rate
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Assessment Test Scores
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One-Time Institutional Investment in Redesigning
an Online Class

• Cost of developing a traditional online class
• 1,380 - 3,000 (based on instructor rate)
• Redesign cost 10,000 - 30,000 per course

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Redesign Costs

• Development time for instructor
• Intellectual property rights
• Video production time
• Infrastructure improvements bandwidth, network
• and server capacity
• Distance Learning Team development and support
• time (uploading course materials,
  duplicating and
• packaging DVDs, etc.)
• Closed captioning

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Costs Per Successful Student
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Operating Costs Per 100 Students
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Lessons Learned

• Optional on-campus sessions
• Pre-assessment test
• Post-assessment test
• Closed captioning
• Discussion Forums ? Class participation
• Frequently asked questions

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Questions/Comments
Contact Information Sandy Crobar, 440-366-7385,
scrobar_at_lorainccc.edu Mary Jane Palmer,
440-366-7684, mpalmer_at_lorainccc.edu