Using Class Capture Technology to Improve Student Learning

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Using Class Capture Technology to Improve Student
Learning

• Cuyahoga Community College
• Cleveland, OH

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Presenters

• Lindsay English, District Director, Teaching,
  Learning and Academic Professional Development
• Dr. Christina Royal, Executive Director,
  Distance Learning
• Dr. J. Michael Thomson, Dean of Academic
  Affairs, Western Campus
• Faculty participating in current pilot

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About Tri-C

• Largest Community College in Ohio
• Public Institution serving 55,000 students
• Multi-Campus / Site Environment
• Distance Learning, approx 17,000 students
• Moving to degrees online
• Recent move to hybrid / blended learning
• Technology-rich environment
• Technology rich lecture, computer labs, LMS
• Culture of Innovation
• Studio classrooms, capture, podcast

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Overview of Pilot

• Began as faculty-driven initiative
• Stronger retention of class experiences
• Serve larger classes that have absences every
  session
• Combined with other technologies
• Classroom capture solution
• Tegrity
• Budget 60,000
• Initial and then College-wide pilot

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Timeline

• Spring 2007- Fall 2007 Review of Options
• Spring 2008 Pre-pilot
• Contract negotiation
• Soliciting faculty participants for full pilot
• Classroom hardware issues
• Training sessions
• Summer 2008 - Spring 2009
• Formal Pilot
• Faculty Learning Community
• Evaluation of whats next

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Faculty Learning Community

• Purpose
• Structure
• First tasks Matrix of users/uses, syllabus
  statement, course schedule description, comfort
  with technology
• Added value evaluation of student learning,
  assessment of faculty value

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Preliminary Research FLC participants

• 15 responses
• 78.6 used class capturing in a traditional
  seat-based section
• 7.1 in a hybrid/blended environment
• 50 in a fully online course
• (Note faculty could respond more than once)

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FLC survey data cont.

• 69.2 captured live lectures
• 69.2 pre-recorded lectures
• 15.4 captured live classroom interaction
• Ave. time of recording 31-60 minutes
• 85.7 viewed class capturing as a valuable
  resource

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Faculty Responses

• Sam LiPuma, Associate Professor, Philosophy,
  Faculty Learning Community Lead
• Kolleen Barnes, Assistant Professor, Court
  Reporting

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Preliminary Research Student participants

• 148 student responses
• 36.5 PT 63.5 FT
• 65.5 under 24 34.5 25 or over
• 75.5 used their own computer to view recordings
  (vs a shared computer or lab environment)

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Student survey data cont.

• of study sessions during which you reviewed a
  recording
• 9.2 never
• 40.8 1-5 times
• 26.1 6-10 times
• 13.4 11-20 times
• 10.6 more than 20

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Student survey data cont.

• Positively impacted studying
• 64.1 agree to strongly agree
• Positively impacted satisfaction in course
• 39.4 strongly agreed, addl 28 agreed
• Increased their learning
• - 35.8 significantly increased learning

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Student survey data cont.

• Impact on success in course
• 56 agree to strongly agree
• Tegrity was easy to use
• - 91.8 agree to strongly agree

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Student Success data

• Matched courses with same instructor
• A-C grades
• w/capturing 84.4
• w/o capturing 82.1
• Matched courses only
• A-C grades
• w/capturing 77.9
• w/o capturing 70.9

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What did we do right?

• College-wide approach
• Vendor extended contracts
• Collaborated with facultycreated faculty
  ownership in the process
• Active participation, engagement, and support
  from administration
• Developed an accurate budget!

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Lessons Learned

• Constitution and structure of FLC
• Campus-based technical support
• Not initially treated as stakeholders
• Timing of involvement
• Lack of clarity in understanding class capturing
  versus lecture capturing
• Mixed perceptions about goal of the pilot
• Lack of needs assessment

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Whats Next?

• Pilot will end Spring 2009
• Decide on our need
• Conduct a survey to capture student feedback
• Bring faculty into the decision-making process
• Conduct financial analysis
• Reflect and learn

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Questions?
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For More Information

• Dr. J. Michael Thomson j.michael.thomson_at_tri-c.edu
  
• Lindsay English lindsay.english_at_tri-c.e
  du
• Dr. Christina Royal christina.royal_at_tri-c.
  edu