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CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY | August/September 2017
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Yet, short of requiring students to come on campus to take their tests or sending out human proctors to every nook and cranny in the region, how does a school balance a desire to expand access to online offerings while still protecting academic integrity? That was the challenge for the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative (CCC OEI).
Jory Hadsell, executive director of the CCC OEI, spoke at this year’s OLC (Online Learning Consortium) Innovate conference and shared the solution: a combination of the use of an automated proctoring application and the creation of a network of colleges across the state that would provide no-cost proctoring on their campuses for students attending any of the member schools. Here’s how CCC has succeeded.
The Background
The CCC has 113 independently accredited colleges, each with its own academic senate, curriculum and fiscal authority. There isn’t necessarily course alignment among the schools, said Hadsell — and, by the way, the colleges “are set up to compete with one another for enrollments.”
Twenty-four members of the CCC form the “pilot” colleges in the OEI, participating in a project to increase higher education degree attainment in the state while maximizing economies of scale by the sheer number of participants. As a body, they’ve adopted online course design standards, chosen Instructure Canvas as a common course management system and dipped into the use of open education resources. Those are fairly common practices among community colleges nowadays. But the “marquis” element of the OEI is an online course exchange.4
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