Slide 1:A Brief Overview The National Repository of Online Courses Gary Lopez, Ph.D. Executive Director Monterey Institute for Technology and Education


Slide 2:Who Is MITE? Who is MITE? Mission To help meet society’s need for access to effective, high-quality educational opportunities in an era of rapid economic, social, and personal change.


Slide 3:MITE Projects


Slide 4: A library of high-quality, multimedia rich online courses for high school, Advanced Placement©, and higher education students and teachers.


Slide 5: Open Educational Resources


Slide 6: OER Providers


Slide 7: “Open Educational Resources . . . High-quality digitized educational materials offered freely and openly for anyone with access to the Internet.” from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation website, 08/10/07 MISSION GOAL BUSINESS GOAL Financially self-sustaining The Challenge of a Sustainable OER


Designed for HS and CC :Designed for HS and CC NROC is unique among OER initiatives: Curricular content for both higher education and high school Complete course content with flexible learning object structure Customizable by an instructor, a department, or a system Correlated to popular textbooks Classroom and online teaching tools


Slide 9:For Instructors


Slide 10:Customizable by a teacher, a district, or a state Can be used within popular CMS’s and repositories For Instructors and Institutions


Slide 11:For Instructors and Institutions


NROC Library - 2009 :NROC Library - 2009 High School Course Foundations College Prep Physics I College Prep Physics II Algebra 1a Algebra 1b Curso de Algebra 1A (Spanish) Curso de Algebra 1B (Spanish) College Course Foundations US History I US History II American Government Introductory Physics I (algebra-based) Introductory Physics II (algebra-based) General Physics I (calculus-based) General Physics II (calculus-based) Introductory Calculus I Introductory Calculus II General Calculus I General Calculus II Environmental Science Non-Majors Biology Religions of the World Elementary Algebra Psychology Calculo General I (Spanish) Calculo General II (Spanish) Statistics for the Social Sciences Advanced Placement Course Foundations AP Environmental Science AP Physics B I AP Physics B II AP Physics C I AP Physics C II AP US History I AP US History IIAP US Government and Politics AP Calculus AB I AP Calculus AB II AP Calculus BC I AP Calculus BC II AP Biology Coming in 2010 Algebra 1 (NEW)


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Where does NROC content come from? :Where does NROC content come from? Two sources: Contributions from academic institutions Collaborative Development managed by NROC Network


Slide 17:NROC Network Membership Educators, designers, technologists, and administrators working together to promote the continuous improvement of online courses through collaborative development of high-quality content and instruction.


Slide 18:Network Members, Pilots, & Partners Academy School District 20 Online CO Adams 12 Five Star Schools CO Alabama Department of Education AL Albuquerque Public Schools NM Anaheim Public Schools CA AP Prep NY Arizona Department of Education AZ Aurora Public Schools CO Bambugare Network NA Bethel Covenant College (Uganda) Cal State Fullerton CA Center to Bridge the Digital Divide WA Chattanooga State TN Chemeketa CC OR Clark County Virtual High School NV Colorado Community Colleges Online CO Colorado Online Learning CO West Virginia Comm. Tech. College WV Cooperstown Central School NY CORE (China) CUDI (Mexico) Cyberlearning VA Digital Learning Commons WA Douglas County School District CO Eastside Preparatory School NJ EPC-Summer Academies CA Esperanza Academy PA Everett Public Schools WA Florida Distance Learning Consortium FL Florida Virtual School FL FSS Project T.E.C.H CA Georgia Board of Regents GA Georgia Virtual School GA Global Literacy Foundation AZ Greenville County Virtual School SC Grossmont Union High School District CA Gwinnett County Online Campus GA Hamilton County Virtual School TN Hawaii Department of Education HI HOPE Academy AL Hudson County Schools of Technology NJ Idaho Digital Learning Academy ID iInstructor.net UT Illinois Virtual High School IL Indian Prairie School District #204 IL Iowa Community College IA Iowa Learning Online IA Kent Technology Academy WA Kentucky Virtual Schools KY Kentucky Community & Tech. College System KY Lake Tahoe Community College CA League for Innovation AZ Los Angeles Unified School District CA Louisiana Department of Education LA Lubbock Christian University TX Lubbock Independent School District TX Maryland State Depart. of Education MD Mason City School District OH Mead School District WA Michigan Virtual School MI Mid-Hudson BOCES Consortium NY Minneapolis Public Schools Online MN Minnesota Online MN Mississippi Department of Education MS Missouri Virtual Instruction Program MO Missouri Virtual School MO Montana State University - Billings MT Monterey Peninsula School District CA myHimacha l(India) Myron B. Thompson Academy HI Network for Mercy Education IL New Mexico Cyber Academy NM New York Harbor School NY Niles Township High School District IL North Carolina Comm. College System NC N. Dakota Ctr. for Distance Education ND Northwest Area Education Agency Northern Humboldt Con. of Schools CA Northview High School CA Omaha Public Schools NE Open High School of Utah UT Oregon Department of Education OR OTAN (CA DOE) CA Partnership for Innovations NE Petersons Pierce College WA Portland State University OR Poway Unified School District CA Rochester Public Schools MN RUSD CA San Jacinto College TX San Jose Education Foundation CA San Luis Obispo Cty. Office of Educ. CA San Marcos Baptist Academy TX Santa Barbara Cty. Office of Educ. CA Saskatchewan Inst. of Applied Science and Tech (Canada) School District of the Chathams NJ Silicon Valley Workplace Center CA Silver State High School NV South Carolina Depart of Education SC Southern Regional Education Board GA Sowelo Technical Community College LA St. Petersburg College FL Teachers Without Borders NA Tennessee Board of Regents TN Council of Chief State School Officers KY Tulare County Office of Education CA University of California College Prep CA University of California Irvine CA University of Montana System MT University of Texas at Brownsville TX UT TeleCampus TX Utah Electronic High School UT Valley Christian School CA Virtual College of Texas TX Virtual School Society NA Virtual Virginia VA The Weiss School FL West Virginia University at Parkersburg WV Western Governors University UT Whitfield County Career Academy GA


Slide 19:NROC Network Case Studies Credit Recovery CHALLENGE: High percentage of students not passing or completing courses “The use of the new OPS-branded HippoCampus site is very exciting for us, providing an additional resource for our teachers and giving them the ability to create their own HippoCampus pages.” Rachel Wise, Ph.D. Director of Secondary Education, OPS


Slide 20:NROC Network Case Studies Offering Course Content Statewide CHALLENGE: Offer high-quality online course content statewide “The (NROC courses) were a unique find. The quality is extraordinary, the flexibility is exceptional, and the feedback we’re getting from our teachers is the content is amazing.” Steve Nelson Chief Information Technology Strategist, ODOE


HippoCampus.org :HippoCampus.org


ACCESS: HippoCampus :ACCESS: HippoCampus