{"id":699,"date":"2010-01-30T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=699"},"modified":"2010-01-30T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:03:19","slug":"items-from-the-learning-marketspace-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/01\/30\/items-from-the-learning-marketspace-january-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Items from The Learning MarketSpace, Jan &#8217;10 &#8212; from NCAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"jan 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thencat.org\/Newsletters\/Jan10.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Learning MarketSpace, January 2010<\/a><\/strong><strong> &#8212; <\/strong>from the National  Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT)<br \/>\n<em>A quarterly electronic newsletter of the National Center for  Academic Transformation highlighting ongoing examples of redesigned learning  environments using technology and examining issues related to their development  and implementation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a title=\"Changing equation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thencat.org\/Newsletters\/Jan10.htm#1\" target=\"_blank\">Changing the Equation: Scaling a Proven  Innovation<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nWith support from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, the National  Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) recently announced a major program,  <em>Changing the Equation<\/em>. The program will engage the nation\u2019s community  colleges in a successful redesign of their remedial\/developmental math sequences  (i.e., all mathematics courses offered at the institution prior to the first  college-level math course.) The goal of this new redesign program is to improve  student learning outcomes in remedial\/developmental math while reducing costs  for both students and institutions using NCAT\u2019s proven redesign methodology.  Institutions will be selected to participate in the program through a  competitive application process described in the program\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thencat.org\/Mathematics\/CTE\/CTEAppGuide.htm\">Application  Guidelines<\/a> and will receive a $40,000 grant to support the implementation of  their redesigns. Those institutions will be expected to pilot their redesign  plans in spring 2011 and fully implement their plans in fall 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"extreme makeover\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aascu.org\/media\/public_purpose\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Extreme Makeover College Edition: The Transformative Power of Course Redesign<\/strong><\/a><em><\/em><br \/>\nIn 2002, a whopping 45 percent of students taking introductory \u201cCollege  Algebra\u201d at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) failed the course. Of  concern just on principle, that statistic was even more troubling given that the  course was required for students majoring in business, nursing, education,  engineering and many other disciplines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Three years later, though, UMSL\u2019s pass rate for \u201cCollege Algebra\u201d had  improved to 75 percent. What\u2019s more, better scores on comprehensive tests showed  that student learning had improved. At the same time, university administrators  were able to document a 30 percent reduction in the cost of instruction for the  course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What sparked that remarkable progress? <a title=\"remarkable progress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aascu.org\/media\/public_purpose\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read further for the details.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Learning MarketSpace, January 2010 &#8212; from the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) A quarterly electronic newsletter of the National Center for Academic Transformation highlighting ongoing examples of redesigned learning environments using technology and examining issues related to their development and implementation. Changing the Equation: Scaling a Proven Innovation With support from the Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,163],"tags":[56,162],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-technology","category-mathematics","tag-educational-technology","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}