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00:47<\/span> \u2013 WHY CBE?<\/p>\n 02:58<\/span> \u2013 HOW TO START A CBE PROGRAM<\/p>\n Different for every college, but for ACC:<\/p>\n Faculty buy-in essential<\/p>\n CBE not new, but using for Distance Learning is new<\/p>\n Important to present to upper administration and at conferences<\/p>\n 05:22<\/span> \u2013 HOW TO GET FACULTY BUY-IN<\/p>\n Western Governors University came in 4 times and gave workshops covering<\/p>\n Understand that you will have early adopters, somewhat interested and those never interested in CBE \u2013 this is normal<\/p>\n Department Chair was good about<\/p>\n By end of program at ACC, enthusiasm was so strong that many faculty members changed their traditional courses to a CBE model<\/p>\n 07:35<\/span> \u2013 THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT SUPPORT<\/p>\n In the beginning, CBE team did not think Student Support Specialist was needed. Now have one and can see need for several more<\/p>\n The ACC Student Support Specialist<\/p>\n ACC is trying to build on this idea of a Student Support Specialist by having the general advisors specialize to advise in certain subjects \u2013 to have a niche.<\/p>\n 09:22<\/span> \u2013 USING AN ACADEMIC COACH<\/p>\n Western Governors University uses a model of a coach and a student support specialist. Due to funding, ACC has one person fill both roles.<\/p>\n Some coaches at other colleges might help students who need help with a particular area of their curriculum<\/p>\n 10:43<\/span> \u2013 REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS<\/p>\n Accreditation in Texas is through Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and Texas Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) \u2013 These are ACC\u2019s regulatory boards<\/p>\n When you want to set up a CBE program, immediately contact your accrediting agency and let them know<\/p>\n Because ACC\u2019s CBE courses are credit-based, SACS and THECB had no issues. Both agencies just needed to be able to measure that the courses were CBE rather than traditional in class or distance learning<\/p>\n 11:57<\/span> \u2013 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN \u201cCREDIT-BASED\u201d & \u201cDIRECT ASSESSMENT\u201d<\/p>\n Credit-based uses same credit system as regular courses<\/p>\n Direct Assessment strips away the credit hour system<\/p>\n ACC chose not to do Direct Assessment because it would be too disruptive to the back-end systems<\/p>\n 13:20<\/span> \u2013 BACK-END CHALLENGES<\/p>\n Front-End entails:<\/p>\n Front-End tremendous job but much easier than Back-End<\/p>\n Back-End challenges include:<\/p>\n Would be nice to simplify registration process \u2013 organize course offerings by degree\/certificate programs instead of having student wade through entire list of CBE courses each semester (ACC has 41 courses which students can choose to take in 16 weeks, 12 weeks or 8 weeks)<\/p>\n Faculty Loading \u2013 need 14-16 students to make a class. Gets complicated when enrollment does not make a class and classes need to be combined. Need to figure out how to pay faculty per student, rather than class.<\/p>\n 16:53<\/span> \u2013 THE FUTURE OF CBE<\/p>\n Other universities have been able take distance learning nation-wide and even internationally. This could increase funding streams<\/p>\n CBE organizes course work in such a way that may not reflect the textbook but enables the student to understand competencies needed in a career<\/p>\n Departments at ACC want to have accelerated, online options for their programs<\/p>\n As population moves toward being more mobile (using phones, tablets, laptops), many students no longer want to sit through a traditional 16-week course<\/p>\n 19:55<\/span> \u2013 THE IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS<\/p>\n ACC has alliances with about 140-150 industry specialists in Austin area relating to computer information technology, some of whom have agreed to:<\/p>\n Industry input one of the most important aspects of ACC\u2019s Accelerated Programmer Training (APT) program \u2013 makes students realize they have the potential to be employed when they finish<\/p>\n 21:29<\/span> \u2013 CBE CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES<\/p>\n Challenges include:<\/p>\n Successes include:<\/p>\n 24:00<\/span> \u2013 SUSTAINING A CBE PROGRAM<\/p>\n When funding runs out, how do you sustain the program?<\/p>\n Other areas of ACC now want to have CBE programs so CBE is growing organically<\/p>\n With one team (leader, course designer, multimedia person, student support specialist and person placing students in jobs) ACC can build about 8 courses a semester. As the team grows, can build more courses<\/p>\n ACC\u2019s grant came through so fast (8 CBE courses online in 8 months) that only now being able to build strong policies and procedures and spread out to rest of college<\/p>\n 26:24<\/span> \u2013 STUDENT REACTION TO CBE<\/p>\n 78% of students take 1-2 courses a semester and now see hope that it\u2019s not going to take 6 years to get through a 2 year degree<\/p>\n 27:51<\/span> \u2013 MARKETING CBE TODAY<\/p>\n Marketing today is very different than marketing of the past \u2013 education does not have the funding for radio, television and film marketing routes to get a student to understand CBE<\/p>\n Sitting back and twiddling thumbs and thinking \u201cyou have built it, they will come\u201d is a thing of the past<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_cta admin_label=”BUTTON Read Transcripts ” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Read Transcripts” use_background_color=”off” background_color=”rgba(104,108,129,0)” background_layout=”dark” text_orientation=”center” header_font=”Roboto Condensed|||on|” header_font_size=”40″ header_text_color=”#94815c” body_font=”Source Sans Pro||||” body_font_size=”21″ body_text_color=”#94815c” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#e3df4c” border_style=”solid” custom_button=”on” button_letter_spacing=”0″ button_use_icon=”on” button_icon_placement=”left” button_on_hover=”on” button_letter_spacing_hover=”0″ custom_margin=”10px|10px|10px|10px” button_border_width=”1″ button_border_radius_hover=”5″ custom_padding=”0|||” button_text_color=”#94815c” button_border_color=”#94815c” button_font=”Roboto Condensed|on|||” saved_tabs=”all” button_icon=”%%19%%” button_text_color_hover=”#94815c” button_bg_color_hover=”rgba(148,129,92,0.26)” button_url=”https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0Byb_9g9hnxDjLWxTbjFzOWpUcDQ\/view?usp=sharing”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_cta][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_cta admin_label=”Back to Case Studies” url_new_window=”off” button_text=”Back to Case Studies” use_background_color=”off” background_color=”rgba(104,108,129,0)” background_layout=”dark” text_orientation=”center” header_font=”Roboto Condensed|||on|” header_font_size=”40″ header_text_color=”#94815c” body_font=”Source Sans Pro||||” body_font_size=”21″ body_text_color=”#94815c” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#e3df4c” border_style=”solid” custom_button=”on” button_letter_spacing=”0″ button_use_icon=”on” button_icon_placement=”left” button_on_hover=”on” button_letter_spacing_hover=”0″ button_url=”https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/cbec\/best-practices\/” custom_margin=”10px|10px|10px|10px” button_border_width=”1″ button_border_radius_hover=”5″ custom_padding=”0|||” button_text_color=”#94815c” button_border_color=”#94815c” button_font=”Roboto Condensed|on|||” saved_tabs=”all” button_icon=”%%19%%” button_text_color_hover=”#94815c” button_bg_color_hover=”rgba(148,129,92,0.26)”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_cta][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Linda Smarzik an Administrators View 00:47 \u2013 WHY CBE? 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