Discussion of student orientation and marketing for CBE business degree pilot

1. CBE Business DTA Pilot
--orientation and marketing
October 27, 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. 2015 Terms
• January to June
• February to June
• March to June
_____________________
• July to December
• August to December
• September to December

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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 )

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.)

12. 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 to keep them on track to
completion

13. 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

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

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

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

17. 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/

18. Student Orientation to Program
Prospective Student & Accepted Student
The next slides will be about the following:
• CBE Pilot Marketing
• CBC CBE Business Web page
• Flow chart for Student Process of applying to
program
• Orientation Course (once accepted in to
program)

19. CBE Marketing
• Pilot colleges market to their own
students.
– Content developed by pilot colleges and
SBCTC
• No central web site or marketing for
students at this time.
• Materials will be posted at
http://cbewa.org

20. CBE Messaging
• What is competency-based
education?
– Competency based education means you learn at
your own pace. If you’ve already mastered a
subject, you can test out and get credit for the
class. If you need to spend more time on
something else, you can do that, too. It’s not about
spending time in class – it’s about learning and
understanding what you need to know.

21. CBE Messaging
• Will my diploma look any different
than if I had taken traditional
classes?
– No. Your diploma and transcript will look
just like the ones students in traditional
classes get. This college already offers the
business transfer degree, so four-year
universities will accept this degree just like
any other transfer degree.

22. CBC CBE Web Page---Prospective Students

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

24. Student Orientation Course
• Offered in Canvas (completely online)
• Student Handbook
• How to Navigate Canvas, adaptive testing, eLearning
tools e.g. Panopto, Collaborate, e-Tutoring, etc.
• Technology skills (file management, etc.)
• How to work with faculty and completion coach
• Modules: Time Management, Goal-setting,
Information Literacy

25. 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

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