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The Digital Learning Revolution: Is It Coming? Is It Here? Is There Going To Be A Revolution?

The Digital Learning Revolution: Is It Coming? Is It Here? Is There Going To Be A Revolution?. First…… Some Disclaimers. The Promise of Higher Education . Access to the middle class dream Bachelors required An expectation that you should go to college More are going More are coming back

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The Digital Learning Revolution: Is It Coming? Is It Here? Is There Going To Be A Revolution?

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  1. The Digital Learning Revolution: Is It Coming? Is It Here? Is There Going To Be A Revolution?

  2. First……Some Disclaimers

  3. The Promise of Higher Education • Access to the middle class dream • Bachelors required • An expectation that you should go to college • More are going • More are coming back • Motivation is different

  4. Some Recent Headlines. . .

  5. “U.S. recession’s other victim: public universities” -Reuters.com July 19, 2012

  6. “One Third of Colleges Are on Financially Unsustainable Path, Bain Study Finds” • The Chronicle of Higher Education July 23, 2012

  7. “Cal State Ponders 2 Paths to Deal with Possibility of $250-Million More in Cuts” -Chronicle of Higher Education, July 16, 2012

  8. “Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?” -Chronicle of Higher Education, March 7, 2012

  9. “Cal State students announce hunger strike at six campuses” -LA Times, April 27, 2012

  10. “Two-Fifths of Parents Expect Children to Cover All or Most College Costs” - The Chronicle of Higher Education July 23, 2012

  11. “Universities cut costs by narrowing offerings” -Grand Forks Herald, July 24, 2012

  12. “Do College Professors work hard enough?” -Washington Post, March 23, 2012

  13. Some Current Observations About Higher Education • Financial Concerns • Tuition is Too High • Student Debt is Too High

  14. Some Current Observations About Higher Education • Financial Concerns • States & Federal Government are reducing their funding • Universities cutting jobs & reducing enrollments

  15. UTA: Amount Paid by Student vs.Amount Provided by the State per Student Student Headcount Enrollment - 2002 and 201223,821 - 33,449 *Source: Annual Financial Statements for FY12 Annual Operating Budget 5

  16. University of Texas at Arlington Percent of State Appropriations to Total Budgeted Expenses FY2000-2012 *Source - FY00 to FY10 UTA Annual Financial Reports, FY11 to FY12 UTA Operating Budget. 16

  17. Some Current Observations About Higher Education • Student Demographics are changing

  18. UT Arlington Ethnicity

  19. UTA Pell Eligibility

  20. Some More Headlines. . .

  21. “University of Illinois Coursera Online Courses Draw 14,000 Student Enrollments on Open Day” - Huffington Post July 19, 2012

  22. “Massively Open Online Courses Are ‘Here to Stay’” -Converge, July 18, 2012

  23. “The Higher Education Monopoly is Crumbling As We Speak” - New Republic March 13, 2012

  24. “A Bubble in Higher Education” - Fiscal Notes, July 2011

  25. “Watching the Ivory Tower Topple” -Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2012

  26. “The Campus Tsunami” -New York Times, May 3, 2012

  27. “Disrupting College: How Disruptive Innovation Can Deliver Quality and Affordability to Postsecondary Education” - Center for American Progress, February 2011

  28. Let’s Talk About the Revolution: Has The Revolution Happened?

  29. Online Education In Context • Distance Education not entirely new • What has changed? • For-Profits….but even this isn’t entirely new

  30. A Word About the For-Profits • Enrollment jumped from 18,333 (1970) to 1.85 Million (2009) • For-Profit students is more likely to be • Female • Minority • Economically disadvantaged

  31. A Word About the For-Profits • Responsible for • 18% of all AA degrees • 33% of all AAs in business • 51% of all AAs in computer and information sciences • 23% of all AAs in health professions • 34% of all AAs in security and protective services • 5% of all BAs

  32. Online Education In Context • What has changed? • Scale

  33. Going the Distance, Babson Survey Research Group, 2011

  34. Online Education In Context • What has changed? • Acceptability

  35. Administrator Perspective Going the Distance, 2011

  36. More Talk About the Revolution: Is The Revolution Coming? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KnT4Fg9Go

  37. “Whenever change outside of an organization is greater than change within an organization, that organization will ultimately fail” - Peter Drucker

  38. Some Recent Online News • Public Growth • EDx – Harvard, MIT and UC Berkley • UVA – Terry Sullivan • Purdue-Global • Cal State Centralized Portal • UC System • UCLA decline $ for MBA • Florida Atlantic and Missouri State – outsource online journalism courses to the Poynter Institute

  39. MOOCS – All the Rage • EDx/Udacity/Coursea • Straighterline • New Charter University • Competency based education • WGU, NAU, U of Wisconsin System

  40. Vendor Involvement • Academic Partnerships • 2Tutor • Embanet/Compass • Pearson • Kaplan/Colloquy

  41. Some Final Thoughts About the Revolution: Some Say There Won’t Be A Revolution?

  42. Online Quality • The Critics • No Interaction • Inferior learning • Can’t learn without seeing the whites of their eyes

  43. Online Quality • Administrator & Faculty Perspectives

  44. Administrator Perspective Going the Distance, Babson Survey Research Group, 2011

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