A Learning Centered Journey A Personal and CollegeWide Path

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A Learning Centered JourneyA Personal and
College-Wide Path

• Cynthia L. Siegrist
• Faculty and Staff Development
• Delgado Community College
• New Orleans, La.

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Delgado Community College

• 5 campuses/sites
• Spring 2005
• 17,500 students
• Spring 2008 --
• 13,179
• Acclaimed Nursing, Allied Health, Jazz,
  Horticulture, Culinary Arts Programs

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Fall 2007 Demographics

• 69 female
• 52 minority
• Average age 27
• 29.4 have children
• 41.4 major wage earners
• 50 indicate parents highest level of ed. is a
  high school diploma

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Im a Believer!
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At this point in time, what does
learning-centered mean to you?
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Four Resonate Readings

• From Teaching to Learning A New Paradigm for
  Undergraduate Education (Barr and Tagg)
• A Learning College for the 21st Century
  (OBanion)
• The Learning College Both Learner and
  Learning-Centered (OBanion)
• Leadership in the New Century (Myram, ,Zeiss,
  Howdyshell)

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From Teaching to Learning

• To say that the purpose of colleges is to
  provide instruction is like saying that General
  Motors business is to operate assembly lines or
  that the purpose of medical care is to fill
  hospital beds. We now see that our mission is
  not instruction but rather that of producing
  learning with every student by whatever means
  works best.
  
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  Barr and
  Tagg

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A Learning College for the 21st Century

• The learning college places learning first and
  provides educational experience for learners
  anyway, anyplace, anytime.
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  OBanion

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Six Principles of the Learning College

• Creates substantive change in learners
• Engages learners as partners
• Creates and offers many options for learning
• Assists learners to form and participate in
  collaborative activities
• Defines roles of learning facilitators by
  learners needs
• Declares success only when learning can be
  documented
  OBanion

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Importance of Assessment/Data Piece

• How does this action improve and expand learning?
• How do we know this action improves and expands
  learning?

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Importance of Assessment/Data Piece

• The transition from Instruction paradigm to
  Learning Paradigm will not be instantaneous. The
  key structure for changing the rest of the system
  is and institution wide assessment and
  information system- an essential structure in the
  Learning Paradigm Barr and Tagg

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Useful Data

• Transfer, graduation and other completion rates
• Flow of students through learning stages (eg.
  developmental programs)
• Attainment of learning outcomes of program
  completers
• Measurement of student knowledge and skills at
  multiple stages using pre and post tests, etc.
• Information provided by classroom assessment
  techniques (CATs) Barr and Tagg
  

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DATA, DATA, DATA!
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The Learning College Both Learner and
Learning-Centered

• If after spending a glorious two weeks at a
  health spa, a satisfied client steps onto a scale
  and hasnt lost a pound, he has not achieved his
  learning-centered goal of losing five extra
  pounds, while paying dearly for a
  learner-centered experience.
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  OBanion

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Learning to Improve Learning,

• Everyone involved with the college, including
  the president, will learn continuously how to
  improve learning.
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  Myram, Zeiss, Howdyshell

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What part of the presentation up to this point
challenges, interests, or speaks to you? Do
you have a metaphor or image in mind about being
learning-centered or an aspect of it?
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What did Delgado do to become more
learning-centered?
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Delgado Community College

• provides a learning-centered environment in
  which to prepare students from diverse
  backgrounds to attain their education, career,
  and personal goals, to think critically, to
  demonstrate leadership, and to be productive
  citizens.

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College-wide Counterpart Meetings by Unit and
Academic Division

• Roundtable Discussions
• What are some of the learning centered/active
  learning practices which we already have in
  place?
• What are some of the steps we can take to make
  our areas more learning centered?
• How can we document student success?

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Examination of Curriculum and
Syllabus Design at All Levels

• Start at the end
• Set Student Learning Outcomes (What
• do you want students to be able to do?)
• Align assessments and activities to the outcomes
• Include active and collaborative activities

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Special Challenges for Faculty
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Special Challenges for Faculty
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Learning Opportunities at All Levels

• Learning for Leaders Series
• Professional Development Academy (Staff)
• Title III Designs for Learning
• Service Learning
• Learning Communities
• QEP Going the Distance/TVC, SLOAN, QM
• Speakers and Mini-Grants
• Mentoring Program
• Valencias ScenariosOnline
• Technical Training

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Assessment and Collection of Data

• Student Learning Outcomes at the program and unit
  levels
• TracDat
• ATMs
• CCSSE survey and follow-up
• Title III Student Learning Outcomes/Learning
  Assessment using Learner-Centered Assessment on
  College Campuses by Huba and Freed

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The Importance of Being Learning-Centered

• In the eye of the storm

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Delgado Distance Learning Pre-K

• 10 semi-trained online instructors/400
• 20 Blackboard courses/1,500
• No formal e-learning program
• Low demand

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Delgado Entrance
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Student Services
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Student Parking
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Overpass
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Plantation Coffee House
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Admissions
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Bursars Office
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Classroom
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Faculty Office
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Library
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Distance Learning Post-K

• Over 100 online instructors
• 215 online courses, 515 sections
• 30 students online
• 800 students 100 online
• DLIT Program
• QEP/Substantive Change
• DCC is a distance learning provider

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Your Conclusions

• Where or how do you see any of the previous
  presentation resonating in your own circumstances?

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The End
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What does this mean for my area?
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