Facilitating Student Success During an Economic and Technological Revolution

1. Facilitating Student Success During an Economic and Technological Revolution Challenges, opportunities, and a few ideas for your consideration August 6, 2012 Selected slide materials from: George Mehaffy, AASCU, and Howard Charney, CISCO systems

2. The Rapidly Changing Higher Education Environment • Economics • State funding support decreasing • Cost per credit hour increasing • Private sector involvement increasing • Technology and the Information Revolution • Amounts of information • Methods of information development • Methods of information dissemination • Accountability and assessment • Student learning outcomes

3. Smaller state appropriations

4. SE enrollment has increased

5. SE State $/student declined

6. Price to Public Has Increased

7. College cost - risen faster than CPI

8. Unsustainable student debt • Student loan debt now greater than credit card debt… • More than $1 trillion this year… • Average debt for those with loans is now $ 24,000. • http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/education/12college.html?_r=2

9. Private sector involvement http://chronicle.com/article/A-Boom-Time-for-Education/131229/

10. Private sectors models that challenge status quo • The University of Phoenix - 450,000+ students. • Faculty: no tenure, Lower salaries, Lower qualifications, No research • DIYU (Do It Yourself University) • Peer to Peer University - http://p2pu.org/en/ • Udacity • EdX - http://www.edxonline.org/ • Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/ • Straighter line • Academic Partnerships – Randy Best and Associates • Open Learning Initiative – Carnegie Mellon University • Khan Academy • iTunes University • TED-ED (www.ted.com)

11. Rapid expansion in amount of information More data was created during any 48 hour period last year then by all of humanity over the past 30,000 years. By 2020, it will be every hour. • Howard Charney, Senior VP Cisco Systems, coinventor of ethernet, July 2012

12. Rapid expansion in data volume If you get a person a fish…. The modern information analogy: • If you give students current facts, they know for a day • If you teach students how to find, create and manage knowledge, they know for a lifetime

13. Three primary information technology drivers: • Mobility of devices • Cloud storage • Video capabilities • Howard Charney, Senior VP Cisco Systems, 2012

14. Info is accessed by mobile devices Source: The Economist

15. Exponential increase in easy & cheap data storage 1980 – 1 Gigabyte cost $200,000 2011 – 1 Terabyte (1024 GB) cost $100 • Howard Charney, Senior VP Cisco Systems, 2012

16. Digital cameras: a lesson in technology and the information revolution

17. 23 seconds to display the first digital photographs

18. Steve Sasson – inventor of the digital camera 1972 – BS; 1973 - MS; EE; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1975 – @ Eastman Kodak Company, assigned to build an electronic camera 1978 – granted patent for digital camera 2001 – first public disclosure of project

19. Eastman Kodak company 1975 – developed the digital camera 1976 – 90% market share of photographic film sales in the US 2001 – first public disclosure of digital photography project 2012 – filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy

20. Innovative disruption Disruption comes from cheaper and simpler technologies that are initially of lower quality. Over time, the simpler and cheaper technology improves to a point that it displaces the incumbent. Kodak is an example of a disrupted company. Christiansen argues that technology, and especially the on-line course, is the disruption enabler in higher education.

21. Implications for faculty at Southeast • Facilitator of student learning vs lecturer • Different course delivery models • Changes in class configurations • Increased collaboration and partnership • Increased flexibility in course offerings • Increased need for measured student learning and accountability

22. Changes in Course Models • Cottage industry model – traditional model: everyone designs his or her own course in isolation • Courses offered collaboratively • Private/public partnership model – universities partner with private sector entities to jointly offer programming. • Purchased courses?– Straighter Line: $99 per course student • Course Redesign (“Flipped courses”) • Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – OLI, EdX, etc • Blended courses

23. Statewide collaboration initiativea new model for program delivery

24. Collaborationa new model for program delivery • Expert faculty send courses to partnering institutions • Students pay tuition at home institution • Students register at home institution • Students receive credit at home institution • Easy access to sending university instructional technology • Grades are recorded by faculty at home institutions • Faculty committees determine academic details

25. Increase efficiencyAverage class sizeUniversity goal: 26 by 2014

26. Target SCHR - 2014(Credit Hours x Students)/Faculty FTE

27. SCH generation per faculty FTEUniversity goal: 312 by 2014

28. Winter intersessionA new model for program delivery • Characteristics: • One 3 credit course between fall and spring semesters • 100% online • Managed course selection • Outcomes: • Accelerated student progress toward graduation • High degree of faculty and student satisfaction • No impact on subsequent spring enrollment • Revenue to offset appropriation declines • Increased faculty salary

29. Summer SessionA new emphasis • Expanded programming and offerings • 72% online for 2012 • Faculty salary based on enrollment • No Pell funding • 3 year degree plans?

30. Student learning outcomesassessment and accountability • Spring 2012 – written for every course • Fall 2012 – written and measured for every course • Faculty training provided this semester

31. 2012 Financial Developments: • $750,000 addl. equipment allocation to academics (+$250,000 college cost share) • Increased lab fee for specified courses • Increased professional development funds for faculty • 2% faculty raise (1.75%+.25%) • RNTT merit raise from $1200 to $2000 • $80+ million in campus physical plant improvements • ~45 new faculty hires

32. Summary: • We are in a time of exciting, revolutionary change in higher education. • Southeast is proactively engaged in these changes. • Faculty play a key leadership role bringing these changes to the university and into the classroom