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| Posted: 03 Apr 2010 11:14 PM PDT Odessa College's director of global education, Corey Davis, is devoted to online education. When Davis went to Stanford University, he went with undiagnosed learning disabilities, and when he graduated from Stanford, his learning disabilities — dyslexia and attention deficit disorder — still made the traditional class structure a struggle for him. After graduating from the university, Davis had managed to get a Stanford education without ever reading a book, but he couldn't keep it up in graduate school. He struggled, he failed, and he needed a different way of going to school. That's when he discovered online classes. "Online classes literally saved my life. I wouldn't have gotten through without them," he said. Davis' own experiences may not seem like something vital to building the Education on Demand program at Odessa College, but they are the reason he is passionate about offering options to students with different educational needs. In fall of 2011, Davis will open up a whole new world to OC students, as the pilot program "Education on Demand" takes flight. "Most of students aren't here to find themselves or to take a class for the love it. I had that, but not every student has the luxury of doing that," Davis said. Putting together the program, Davis noted that many of the students attending OC — the average age is about 28 years old — were there to get to get their degrees as quickly as possible. "One thing I've noticed about Odessa is that taking care of the family is the biggest priority," Davis said, describing a student he recently spoke with who has headed back to school as a 25-year-old. The student has gone back to school for his family, but he needs to get it done as quickly as possible. "He told me he needed to get his degree fast, because he was already old and needed to get going. He's the kind of person that'll benefit from this," Davis said. The program will be offered in three four-week periods, working at an accelerated pace to earn three credit hours upon completion. As the program grows, students will be able to tailor the course schedule to fit their own needs and abilities, Davis said. Once it is up and running, the four-week courses will be able to start whenever there is enough demand to fill the classes. Starting out, the program will offer four courses, speech, history, English and government. Davis said they picked the courses based on which professors were most comfortable working in a different, more technical environment. When Odessa College President Gregory Williams came to OC three years ago, he came with the beginnings of a plan to offer "global education" and has spent the following years getting the right people and technology in place for the program. Williams believes in technology, he said, and he's willing to try different things, even if some things fail, he said. "You have to be willing to try new things and to lead people even if you fail, and I'm willing to do that," Williams said. Together, over the past two years, Williams and Davis have formed a plan to make on-demand online education a reality at OC. The program owes a lot to the University of Phoenix online model where people can work on their degrees from anywhere in the world. While Education on Demand is similar, the people at OC are confident that their program will be different. The University of Phoenix has had some problems over the years, according to a report by the New York Times in 2007. The push for higher profits at the for-profit institution was said to have eroded the university's quality, frustrating students and leading to a high number of students starting the school but never finishing. The University of Phoenix has more than 400,000 students enrolled across the country. While it is one of the biggest institutions for higher education in the country, the for-profit institution has a 2009 graduation rate of just 4 percent according to the Online Education Database. Davis said he admired the Phoenix model because they managed to graduate a high number of minority students, many who were headed back to school because they needed to get their degrees and get their careers on track as quickly as possible. However, he said, OC is creating its own program, in part, because they believe they can do it better. The Phoenix model offers classes online, anytime, so that students can enroll, take the classes and work at their own pace. OC has a vision for a program like that, eventually, but it's going to take a few years to get it started. When the program opens in August it will be a "mixed model," Davis said. "I think it's going to be better because we've got better things to offer here at OC," OC speech instructor Haley Draper-Bower said. Draper-Bowers will be one of the first professors to teach classes in the new program. She said what she is most excited about is serving students. "It's a different ballgame … we're really thinking about the students at every turn, and this program is aimed at their needs," Draper-Bowers said. There are still some details to work out, but so far the classes offered through Education on Demand will be priced the same as other classes — the state-mandated cost of $69 per credit hour — and will be offered to all students. Each class section has slots for 22 students, maximum, and at least eight students must be enrolled for the classes to make. OC will be tracking the results, and if the program gets enough interest, it is scheduled to be fully up and running by August 2013. Davis acknowledges that this program won't be for everyone. Students who enroll will have to be self-starting and self-motivated because, aside from Star Trek-like Web conferences, they won't have any real class time, and the professor may be across the country. But for the right students, Davis said he believes this program will be a perfect fit. "Is it going to work for everybody? Absolutely not, but we need to stop trying to shove everybody into one mode of learning and let people customize the way they need to," Davis said. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
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