COTE Report – February 2017

Written by CEN-PICKETAL on February 9, 2017. Posted in research/reports.

Open SUNY COTE Report to the FACTT² Council – 2.10.17

GENERAL Initiatives – http://bit.ly/allthingscote

Open SUNY COTE Service Level Agreement (SLA) – In this past quarter we disseminated the new Open SUNY SLA with improvements in the COTE specific area – it was made available in November 2016 for the 2017-18 fiscal year. http://bit.ly/SLA1718 (see page 2).

Badging System Design – We continue to expand our badging initiative. We have been working to include more Open SUNY or SUNY-wide programs into our ecosystem and constellations of badges, and have found additional opportunities to extend the use of badges into more areas. We are working on better tracking the credentials that have been issued.
- Credly Platform: https://credly.com/u/opensunycote
- We have published 31 badges in the membership, professional development, and community engagement categories.
- A total of 1,714 badges have been issued.
- 548 badges have been accepted/claimed in Credly.
- 34% of the time these badges were shared to social media.
- 28% of the time these badges were added to LinkedIn profiles.
- 78K + views of badges.
- http://www.slideshare.net/alexandrapickett/digital-badges-for-professional-development-open-suny-cote

In this past quarter we continued to work on COTE project plans, metrics, and performance program alignment.
Migration is an ongoing commitment and effort – 2012-2017 provided at no cost to SLN campuses migrating from ANGEL.
Legacy materials – review, revision, adaptation of SLN legacy materials is an ongoing effort.

4 Open SUNY COTE Pillars:

Online Competency Development
- Partnership with OLC announced. https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/2016/12/30/sunyolc-partnership/
  - Open SUNY COTE’s online instructional designer certificate program through the OLC Institute.
  - OSCQR rubric, our course-level quality rubric, for reviewing and improving the instructional design and accessibility of online courses.
  - A collaboration on improving the rubric dashboard. Will be unveiled at OLC Innovate in April.
  Benefits (to the SUNY Online Community) of the OLC partnership and collaboration:
  - We are able to extend membership in OLC at no cost to SUNY campuses.
  - Leverage OLC’s development resources on the development of a more robust OSCQR dashboard.
  - Promote the SUNY Online Community to a national audience. Recognition of the SUNY Online Community in the various partnerships/collaborations.
  - Leadership opportunities for community members to engage in OLC future teams and groups for continuous improvement in our collaborations.

Open SUNY COTE Competency Development – Spring 2017 – Catalog of Spring offerings.
- N2OL facilitated online
- N2OL blended
- Review your online course with the OSCQR rubric
- Become an OSCQR Online Course Reviewer
- Online Instructional Designer Certificate in partnership with OLC launched in January:
  - 60 participants (including 8 SUNY) active in COTE/OLC Online Instructional Designer Course #1– OSCQR
- BlendKit 2017
- Universal Design for Learning and Web Accessibility – meeting the needs of all students
- Monitoring student success with Bb Reports
- Blackboard Tests: Going Beyond Multiple Choice
- Using the medium effectively: rubrics as a tool to monitor student interaction
- Interested in Online Teaching will launch during this next quarter.

Fall 2016 Report
- 19 participants completed Become an OSCQR Online Course Reviewer
- 5 participants completed Review your online course with the OSCQR rubric.
- 11 participants completed ID Cert #4 – OSCQR
- 9 participants completed Universal Design for Learning and Web Accessibility – meeting the needs of all students
- 7 participants completed N2OL facilitated online.
- 23 participants completed N2OL blended. (Rockland, FIT, FLCC, & Brockport)
- 9 participants completed Blackboard Tests: Going Beyond Multiple Choice
Spring 2017 (development activities in progress)
- Development of course on advanced uses of interactive tools.
- Development of a “crash course” for those new to online teaching and inheriting an already developed course.
- Interested in online teaching.

Community of Practice

The 2017 Online Teaching Ambassadors will be announced at the Summit in March and will be found here: https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/engage/ambassadorprogram/
- We will recognize 57 Ambassadors representing 28 campuses.
3rd Annual Open SUNY COTE Summit will be held March 8-10, 2017 in Syracuse, NY.
- There will be a registration fee this year for everyone attending.
- Keynote speaker will be Stephen Downes.
- We will be partnering with OLC on the third day of the conference. There will be a panel discussion on Learning Analytics. http://opensunycotesummit2017.edublogs.org/speakers/olcpanel/#.WJnzexzb9B4

Open SUNY Fellows
- 1,844 Open SUNY Fellows have joined COTE a 3% increase since last October – a 55% increase for the year.
  - 836 – Interested in online-enabled education
  - 644 – Experienced online practitioner
  - 49 – Expert instructional designer
  - 49 – Exemplar, coach, and mentor
  - 29 – Innovator and/or researcher
  - 237 – Friends of SUNY

The Open SUNY COTE Networking Community http://cotecommunity.open.suny.edu/
- 996 members a 4% increase since October – 19% increase for the year.
- 43 discussion groups.
- And various discussions.
The monthly COTE Community Call features updates from pillars of COTE and pedagogically-focused research presentations and campus showcases.
- Average about 37 participants each month (October – January).
- A Community Call group was created to take the place of the listserv in the COTE Community. (http://cotecommunity.open.suny.edu/group/cote-community-call – please join!)
- The group currently has 77 members.
Online Teaching Gazette – http://open.suny.edu/gazette
- 24 issues have been curated and published to date.
- Subscribers and Views:
  - September 2015– 157 subscribers, 2071 paper views.
  - October 2015– 160 subscribers, 2107 paper views.
  - November 2015– 183 subscribers, 2306 paper views.
  - December 2015– 206 subscribers, 2662 paper views.
  - January 2016– 209 subscribers, 2662 paper views.’
  - February 2016 – 226 subscribers, 2853 paper views.
  - March 2016 – not recorded.
  - April 2016 280 subscribers, 3332 paper views.
  - May 2016 – 297 subscribers, 3553 paper views.
  - June 2016 – 308 subscribers, 3737 paper views.
  - July 2016 – 317 subscribers, 3945 paper views.
  - August 2016 – 326 subscribers, 4077 paper views.
  - September 2016 – 338 subscribers, 4228 paper views.
  - October 2016 – 343 subscribers, 4369 paper views.
  - November 2016 – 352 subscribers, 4492 paper views.
  - December 2016 – 359 subscribers, 4608 paper views.
  - January 2017 – 372 subscribers, 4730 paper views.
- 137% increase in subscribers since inception. 9% increase since October.
- 128% increase in views since inception. 8% increase since August.

NOTE: Paper views include opening the paper as well as clicking on topics by unique visitor within 24-hour period. Also views are cumulative since paper was first launched.

COTEhub (https://online.suny.edu/onlineteaching/)
- Launched July 6, 2015.
- 8 blog posts since October.
- 2 guest posts.
- Google analytics since August: 1,203 site views, 810 users, 3% new visitors, 37.7% returning visitors (site visits and users are not unique).
COTETV – Open SUNY COTE YouTube Channel –
- 45 Subscribers to date with 5,732 views of the channel.
- 101 Videos on COTE TV (Open SUNY COTE’s YouTube channel).
- 16 cc playlists available on various topics.

Course Supports – OSCQR http://open.suny.edu/oscqr

52 SUNY campuses currently use OSCQR, plus dozens of additional schools around the country.
- Over 691 self-assessment rubrics have been generated, 265 self-assessments since July 2016.
On November 17, 2016 we initiated a partnership with OLC. OLC has adopted OSCQR as their course quality scorecard. And is collaborating with us on the development of an improved dashboard and interactive rubric.
- If you are interested in learning more about this partnership, please join the Open SUNY COTE community call on February 14, 2017 from 2-4pm.
Working on developing standards and best practices for MOOCs (with Coursera and campus input).
Worked with FACT2 task groups on:
- Standards and best practices mobile-friendly online course design.
- Standards and best practices on virtual and alternative labs.

COTE Research

To view your individual campus report, or the aggregated results across the system login: http://www.sunyresearch.net/ 
For information on how to access or participate in Open SUNY COTE online faculty and student studies, contactcote@suny.edu

Longitudinal project: Fall 2016 student data collection

Fall 2016 aggregated report will be distributed next week.
Access to campus reports and aggregated reports: http://www.sunyresearch.net/php/

Focused Research project: On faculty attitudes on online teaching.

Upcoming Presentations:

February: ELI 2017 Annual Meeting – Transforming the Academy: Building Communities of Practice
- “Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR) Process & Rubric to Review and Improve Online Courses.”
March: Coursera Partners Conference
April: Invitation to present at the DCCCD professional development event on OSCQR in April.
April: 2017 OLC Innovate – Innovative Ways to Create, Support, Sustain, and Grow an Online Community of Practice

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