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Opening the Book on Open Source Developmental Education

Opening the Book on Open Source Developmental Education. at bossier parish community college. BPCC’s Open-Source Initiative: “Open-Campus”.

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Opening the Book on Open Source Developmental Education

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  1. Opening the Book onOpen Source Developmental Education at bossier parish community college

  2. BPCC’s Open-Source Initiative:“Open-Campus” Open-Campusprovides free, online, non-credit, developmental-level English, math, and reading courses through BPCC’s Blackboard portal. Course content and progression mimic credit-bearing offerings with these exceptions: • no textbooks are used • courses are self-contained with no direct interaction between instructors/students.

  3. Instructor/DesignerTimeframe and Compensation Time-frame: Instructors contracted to complete the project following designated benchmarks within a window of 16 weeks from contract date. Compensation:Instructors were compensated for two sections: one (1) section ($1950) for content design and one (1) section ($1950) for video-recording lectures. Designated benchmarks/time-lines were suggested. Funding: The project was funded “In-House,” with the support of Administration.

  4. Instructor Responsibilities An instructor’s primary responsibility is to design content and record video lectures for one designated developmental course. *Instructors were provided the specific “BPCC Open-Campus” template in Blackboard and were responsible for creating a minimum of eight (8) and maximum of sixteen (16) learning modules which track according to their traditional, for-credit BPCC courses

  5. Within the Open-Campus Blackboard template, the instructor agrees to provide in each module: • Learning Outcomes for each module • At least one video lecture where instructor introduces/teaches concepts (up to 20 minutes for each) *Instructors may include as many videos per module as they deem necessary to cover module material. • Written items/images (PowerPoint and/or pdf documents) to be produced/ designed by instructor and which reflect lecture topic. • Quiz(objective, auto-graded, with responses) sufficient in length to reflect material covered in module.

  6. Additional Instructor Responsibilities Complete the “Meet Your Instructor” bio/video and “Course Information” Participate in the review process with the program coordinator, Agree to complete the project within a window of sixteen (16) weeks from contract date.

  7. Expenses: Projected/Actual

  8. About Bossier Parish Community College For 45+ years, Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC) has been making a difference in the lives of the citizens of Northwest Louisiana. As the fastest growing community college of its size in the US, BPCC projects student enrollment to top 10,000 by January, 2014.

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