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COTE Report – August 2016

Written by CEN-PICKETAL on August 12, 2016. Posted in research/reports.

This report provides an update on Open SUNY COTE activities through August 2016.

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

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.
Digital DNA Refresh – continuing to work on/with strategic planning, project plans, metrics and performance program alignment.
Open SUNY COTE Service Level Agreement (SLA) – http://bit.ly/1617SLA Open SUNY COTE SLA offers campuses more options and flexibility to take advantage of competency development offerings to support campus initiatives to systematically scale online faculty development.
- In this quarter we added technical training to the COTE catalog of offerings.

Data Driven Approach to Student Support

Written by CEN-PICKETAL on July 11, 2016. Posted in conference, research/reports.

If you read any higher education blogs or news sites, you can’t get far without running into a story about the promise of analytics and big data. At Open SUNY, we are in the process of hiring an impact analyst to help us develop, measure, and analyze appropriate metrics. Data is clearly the “Next Big Thing,” but how we do get beyond the concept of data to the point where we are productively using the information available to us to better serve students?

One University that seems to be on their way to exploiting the potential of data is the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), a public online campus serving around 85,000 students around the world (UMUC has a close affiliation with the US Armed Forces, and many of its students are soldiers or their dependents). UMUC’s Beth Mulherrin and Thomas Porch recently presented at the UPCEA Summit for Online Leadership about what their campus is doing to use data to improve their student retention policies.