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http://odee.osu.edu

Distance education and eLearning at Ohio State are critical components in our mission to lead this university into the future. To say distance education and eLearning have increased significantly in the past five years would be an understatement. Technology now affords us the opportunity to become the land-grant university of the world. It accelerates our community's ability to solve the grand challenges of the 21st Century. It enables new learning programs in our global gateways, creates new partnerships with businesses, and sparks connections to our passionate Ohio State alumni.

Our team is passionate about the role technology can play at Ohio State. We love what we do. Our mission is to provide students on and off campus with an enriched educational experience for a lifetime of learning through technology-ready classrooms, centralized learning systems, innovations in technological pedagogy, and distance education opportunities.

http://online.osu.edu

Online degree programs from The Ohio State University. Currently 13 online degree programs are available.

http://affordablelearning.osu.edu

Affordable Learning Exchange is a partnership between Ohio State faculty, staff and students exploring ways to address the complex, linked challenges of affordability, access and excellence in teaching and learning at Ohio State.

Projects funded through this initiative will meet these challenges by replacing textbooks and other course materials with alternative, homegrown resources; by sharing publications made available through University Libraries; and by adopting and adapting existing Open Educational Resources (OER) from around the world. Learn more about OER from Creative Commons.

http://digitalbookstore.osu.edu

eBooks created by OSU faculty, staff, and students.

http://itunes.osu.edu - General Information

http://go.osu.edu/itunesu - Direct Link to OSU iTunes U

Free coursework from OSU faculty and staff. Over 4 million downloads since 2012. Over 80 public courses and collections.

http://innovateu.osu.edu

Free eLearning conference. May 11, 2016. Call for proposals opening soon.

General education courses at The Ohio State University.

44,000+ undergraduate students

1000+ General education courses

Undergraduate students at Ohio State, regardless of major, share a common curriculum, the university's General Education program. General Education course work is an integral component of an Ohio State degree, providing graduates the skills, competencies, and breadth of knowledge to become educated, productive citizens.

http://collegeready.osu.edu

College Ready Ohio is an unmatched collaboration among K-12 school districts, higher education, and regional service providers.

This program is designed to foster learning experiences that are engaging, relevant, and will prepare Ohio's high school students to enter higher education with the depth of knowledge and necessary academic experience to be truly successful. Success starts with providing professional development, mobile learning technology, training and digital course materials to high school teachers. Together, we can change Ohio’s classrooms.

http://collegeready.osu.edu

10 High School Partners

College Ready Ohio looked to work with and provide programming to a wide variety of school districts in Ohio, thus creating potential models for implementation by like districts.

CRO serves Urban partner schools.

8% of Ohio school districts are in an urban setting.

25% of Ohio students live in these districts.

Suburban

20% of Ohio school districts are in a suburban setting.

34% of Ohio students live in these districts.

Rural/Small Town

70% of Ohio school districts are in a small town or rural setting.

41% of Ohio students live in these districts.

Some College Ready Ohio partner schools (and other schools throughout Ohio) were without modern teaching and learning tools, while other partner schools were leaders. We wanted to create a network across the districts that allowed for peer learning amongst the catalyst teachers. We also wanted schools to learn from those using modern tools as a means for making an implementation/change framework that was poised for success.

3000+ iPads and MacBooks deployed Fall 2015

The technology is about access and opportunity. Access to modern learning tools, access to the internet, opportunity to collaborate, opportunity to learn digital skills that will follow the student beyond graduation, and access/opportunity to take online college courses from the flagship Ohio university (if they are academically ready) and opportunity to take college courses from other higher education institutions in Ohio.

We created a pilot run of online College Credit Plus courses to districts outside of central Ohio during Autumn 2015.

We are expanding reach each semester across Ohio to provide greater access to those students who are interested and ready.

No cost to the student or their family. College Credit Plus creates a system in which the local school district and the student's high school pays for tuition and instructional materials. The credit the student earns from Ohio State counts towards high school graduation and on their higher education transcript. An innovative approach to college affordability and reducing time to degree.