NROC Network Members Conference March 1, 2010 Gary Lopez, Ph.D. Executive Director

NROC Network

Members Conference

March 1, 2010

Gary Lopez, Ph.D.Executive Director

Update Topics

1. Network Membership and NROC Usage

2. New Development: Algebra and Dev Math

3. OER and the Federal Stimulus Investment

2010 Network Members

Academy School District 20 Online (CO)

Alabama ACCESS (DOE)

Albuquerque Public Schools (NM)

Anaheim Union High School District (CA)

Arizona Department of Education

Bambugare Network (Sub-Saharan Africa)

Bethel Covenant College (Uganda)

California State University at Fullerton

Catholic School K12 Virtual

Center to Bridge the Digital Divide (WSU)

Chattanooga State Tech.& Comm. College (TN)

Chesterfield School District (VA)

CORE (China)

Clark County School District (NV)

Colorado Community Colleges Online

Colorado Online Learning

CUDI (Mexico)

Florida Distance Learning Consortium

Georgia Virtual School (DOE)

GLBTQ Online High School (MN)

Global Literacy Foundation (AZ)

Greenville County Virtual School (SC)

Grossmont Union High School (CA)

Gwinnett County Online Campus (GA)

Kentucky Statewide Consortium (statewide P-20)

Hudson Schools of Technology (NJ)

Idaho Digital Learning Academy

IDEAL-New Mexico

Illinois Virtual School (DOE)

Indian Prairie School District #204 (IL)

Innovative Education Design (Korea)













CORE (China)




CUDI (Mexico)











IDEAL-New Mexico




Iowa Community Colleges Online Consortium

Los Angeles Unified School District

Louisiana Virtual School

Lubbock Independent School District Online (TX)

Maryland State Department of Education

Michigan Virtual High School

Mid-Hudson Regional BOCES Consortium (NY)

Minnesota Learning Commons (statewide P-20)

Minneapolis Public Schools Online

Mississippi Virtual School (DOE)

Missouri Dept. of Elem. and Secondary Education

Montana Virtual Academy

Montana State University at Billings

Myron B. Thompson Academy (HI)

National Association of Beginning Teachers

Niles Township High School District (IL)

Nebraska: Partnerships for Innovation (statewide P-20)

North Carolina Community College System

North Dakota Center for Distance Education

North Salinas High School (CA)

Northwest Area Education Agency (IA)

Oregon Department of Education

Open High School of Utah (NV)

Portland State University

Riverside Unified School District (CA)

Salish Kootenai College (MT)

San Jose Education Foundation (CA)

San Luis Obispo County Board of Education (CA)

School District of the Chathams (NJ)

Sierra Vista High School (CA)

South Carolina Virtual School (DOE)
































Tulare County Office of Education (CA)

University of Alaska at Fairbanks

University of California, Irvine

University of Georgia System Board of Regents

Utah Electronic High School

University of Texas at Brownsville

UT System TeleCampus

Valley Christian School (CA)

Virtual Virginia (DOE)

WSU International Research and Development

West Virginia University-Parkersburg

West Virginia DOE

Whitfield County School District (GA)

Partner Advisors:

Council of Chief State Supervisors and Officers

(CCSSO)

Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)

2009-2010 Advisors2009-2010 Advisors

2010 Network Members













CORE (China)




CUDI (Mexico)











IDEAL-New Mexico
















CORE (China)




CUDI (Mexico)











IDEAL-New Mexico


































































Tulare County Office of Education (CA)

University of Alaska at Fairbanks

University of California, Irvine

University of Georgia System Board of Regents

Utah Electronic High School

University of Texas at Brownsville

UT System TeleCampus

Valley Christian School (CA)

Virtual Virginia (DOE)

WSU International Research and Development

West Virginia University-Parkersburg

West Virginia DOE

Whitfield County School District (GA)

Partner Advisors:

Council of Chief State Supervisors and Officers

(CCSSO)

Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)

New MembersNew Members

Membership Usage*

Year Students Teachers

2006 – 2007 5,676 80

2007 – 2008 68,083 1,709

2008 – 2009 524,282 35,579

2009- 2010 Projected

969,374 54,406

* 35-50% of members reporting each year* 35-50% of members reporting each year

Revenue GrowthRevenue Growth

What’s New?: NROC ConsultingWhat’s New?: NROC Consulting

HippoCampus.org

HippoCampus Usage

3.14 Million Visits3.14 Million Visits

50.41 Million Pageviews50.41 Million Pageviews

What’s New?: Annotation

What’s New?: Annotation

What’s New?: Add a Book

What’s New?: Add a Book

Algebra 1 Project Update

Production Schedule

•Extensive prototyping and focus group work in 2009

•All systems built and full production initiated

•Semester 1 to be published July 2010, and

Semester 2 to be published October 2010

Production Schedule

•Extensive prototyping and focus group work in 2009

•All systems built and full production initiated

•Semester 1 to be published July 2010, and

Semester 2 to be published October 2010


Product Features• Correlated to all US state frameworks and the Common Core

• Correlated to widely-adopted algebra textbooks

• LO architecture: 12 Units, 26 Lessons, 72 Topics

• Designed for online and hybrid classroom use

• Single-session formative assessment

• Supporting teacher professional development

• Rich, interactive multimedia with multiple instructional elements
























Instructional Elements include,

At the topic level:

• warm-up (text)

• presentation (video, audio, animation, and graphics)

• worked examples (audio and graphics)

• problems (interactive text)

• review (text)

• Read It (online textbook)

At the lesson level:

• virtual tutor (interactive video, graphics, text)

• project (text and graphics)

• Digital Manipulative (interactive animation, graphics)

Instructional Elements include,

At the topic level:

• warm-up (text)

• presentation (video, audio, animation, and graphics)

• worked examples (audio and graphics)

• problems (interactive text)

• review (text)

• Read It (online textbook)

At the lesson level:

• virtual tutor (interactive video, graphics, text)

• project (text and graphics)

• Digital Manipulative (interactive animation, graphics)





http://www.nrocproto.org/mockup/focusGroup-Feb/sim/index.html

• We got it!

• $5M from Gates and $1M from Hewlett

• Funding began October 2009

• Project runs from 2009-2012

• Focus groups through project

• First course published December 2010

• Partnered with AMATYC

Developmental Math Project

Project Goal: Increasing the number of financially-disadvantaged students that pass developmental math

Project Approach:

• Developing new educational interventions (“Standing on the shoulders of the best educators.”)

• Developing an enterprise for national distribution and sustainability (“It is more than building a better mouse trap.”)

• Engaging student, instructors, and administrator in the product and enterprise design (“Honoring everybody and making real change happen.”)


Focus GroupsWhat is the product and enterprise?

Strategic PartnershipsHow do we reach the target audience?

NROC and Algebra DevelopmentWhat are the product and business development processes?

TaxonomyWhat is the curriculum?

Focus GroupsWhat is the product and enterprise?

Strategic PartnershipsHow do we reach the target audience?

NROC and Algebra DevelopmentWhat are the product and business development processes?

TaxonomyWhat is the curriculum?

Developmental Math: Work to Date

TaxonomyDevelopmental Math: Taxonomy

Goals:

• Provide institutions and students with learning activities to support an efficient path to credit-bearing courses

• Support both flexible course configurations and a collection of learning objects

• Support multiple curricula (NROC members, AMATYC New Vision, Common Core State Standards)

Developmental Math: Taxonomy

Common Curriculum Partners


Four “courses”: arithmetic, beginning algebra, intermediate algebra, and geometry

The collection of course content composed of:

17 units containing,

51 lessons, containing,

116 topics, with,

346 explicit learning objectives to allow fine-grained assessment


US Distance Learning Association Conference – St. Louis

Denver School of Science, West Denver Prep & Mesa Middle School – Castle Rock, CO

Michigan Virtual School - Lansing

Colorado CommunityColleges - Denver

Iowa Assoc. of Community College Trustees- Des Moines

Tennessee Board of Regents - Nashville

Innovations Conference - Reno

Maryland Dept. of Education - Baltimore

NROC members’ meeting - Monterey

LA Unified School District - Los Angeles

West Mesa High School – Albuquerque, NM

Jemez Pueblo High School, Jemez, NM

Los Medanos College & Antioch High School

Napa Valley College

Innovations Conference -Baltimore

American Association of Community Colleges - Seattle

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics – San Diego

Engage students in content development

Engage instructors and administrators in enterprise planningEngage instructors and administrators in enterprise planning

Focus GroupsFocus Groups


• Keep it simple: developmental students and ELLs value simplicity

• Real-world examples are a key to engagement

• Students and instructors want support for multiple learning styles

• Challenges, animations, simple illustrations, and problem sets are important

Focus groups: 2009 key findings

• Professional development and staff adoption are key issues in community colleges

• Few instructors and institutions are locked into an existing teaching method or digital product

• Cost and flexibility of digital products are important ongoing concerns


Participants are looking for new ways to approach math

• Math redesigns in TN, AL and elsewhere

• Revisiting standards and requirements

• This is a dynamic and critical time in math instruction

Student diversity makes it essential to provide content with different context and voices


Math Focus Groups

2010 Schedule:

• Los Medanos CC and Antioch HS, CA (early March)• Innovations Conference, The League (late March)• American Association Community Colleges (April)• And more…

Get the math product you want . . . host a focus group at your

school.

2010 Schedule:

• Los Medanos CC and Antioch HS, CA (early March)• Innovations Conference, The League (late March)• American Association Community Colleges (April)• And more…

Get the math product you want . . . host a focus group at your

school.

Focus GroupsFocus Groups

ARRA 2009

Race to the Top

Federal Stimulus and OER

Documents

NROC Network Members Conference March 1, 2010 Gary Lopez, Ph.D. Executive Director