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Educational Technology Group, NERCOMP

Educational Technology Group, NERCOMP Mary Spidle, Office of the University CIO, Harvard University June 2009. About Harvard. 10 Schools: FAS, Business, Design, Divinity, Education, Government, Law, Medical, Public Health, and Radcliffe About 20,000 degree students

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Educational Technology Group, NERCOMP

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  1. Educational Technology Group, NERCOMP Mary Spidle, Office of the University CIO, Harvard University June 2009

  2. About Harvard • 10 Schools: FAS, Business, Design, Divinity, Education, Government, Law, Medical, Public Health, and Radcliffe • About 20,000 degree students • 2,000 faculty members and 14,000 staff • 90 + libraries • Central administration: VPs of Alumni Affairs, Finance, Human Resources, etc • VERY decentralized

  3. Options Considered in 1999 Should Harvard: • Enhance existing residential programs? • Extend existing offerings to new audiences? • Pursue new markets? • Create harvard.com? • Partner with our peer institutions to create course offerings? • Make its content freely available? • Wait and see?

  4. University Strategy • Focus on improving residential education • Create a suite of tools to support classroom teaching • Provost’s Fund for Innovation in Instructional Technology and Provost’s Fund for Distance Learning established in 2000 • Presidential Distance Learning Pilot Program in 2006 • Content development, IT infrastructure, business infrastructure

  5. Residency Requirements • “A residence of the University of at least one year spent in full-time study at the full tuition rate is required for each degree, except in the case of candidates for the degree of Associate of Arts or Bachelor of Arts in Extension Studies” • Statute approved in 1877 and reviewed in 2002 • Statute updated to allow alternative and hybrid programs on a case-by-case basis (not including Extension School) • No fully online degrees considered

  6. Faculty of Arts and Sciences • FAS, Justice Course, Professor Michael Sandel • Extend existing degree program course to alumni • Course captured in high quality video • Asynchronous participation with new content delivered over semester • Interactive blogs and polls • Thousands, tapering off to hundreds, of alumni participants • Supplemented by in-person, regional events • HAA is working on additional offering of a FAS Literature and Arts course

  7. Business • Microeconomics of Competitiveness, Professor Michael Porter • Content from MBA course (cases, handouts, streamed video) accessed from HBS Intranet • 100 affiliate Schools, 1700 students, 5 continents • Course credit granted by participating affiliate institution

  8. Education • WIDE World • GSE research on teaching for understanding • 2,000 educators worldwide • Interactive online professional development exercises • Customized for specific settings and often include an in-person component

  9. Government • HKS offers five online executive education courses • Senior leaders in nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations in the developing world • Case-based teaching with faculty video introductions, reading material, online discussions, class videos, and written assignments reviewed by the faculty • Asynchronous participation with new content delivered bi-weekly over 10-weeks

  10. Medical School • Harvard Medical School has delivered on-site programs for 35 years to physicians and health professionals • Continuing Medical Education online at HMS has been very successful since late 1990s • Video, study guides, Ask the Author, online discussions • Large international student body, 19,000 physicians from 136 countries • Tuition inexpensive, provides continuing education credits

  11. Public Health • Masters of Science degree in Health Care Management • Management skills to physicians seeking leadership positions • Alternative residential with minimal online (email) • Two-year period with in-residence sessions taking place in summer and selected weekends • Close to 180 graduates

  12. Industry Observations • Dramatic growth in online programs in large public institutions • A handful of for-profit learning companies established themselves • Most large commercially-oriented higher education ventures were not successful • A few prominent successful online degree programs at Harvard peers • Market Lesson: Tuition-bearing programs must lead to a valued credential to attract a significant number of students

  13. Recurring Questions • Are the unique benefits of residential programs more important early in one’s academic career than later (e.g. college vs. a second professional degree)? • What are the strategic opportunities that technology is enabling? • Do some academic disciplines and pedagogical approaches translate well online while others require residential (face-to-face) instruction for the foreseeable future? • Should Harvard dramatically expand the number of students it reaches, both domestically and internationally, via online programs? • Online learning programs will steadily improve and will one day rival residential programs. Therefore, it is important for Harvard to …….? • Where possible at high quality levels, should Harvard pursue online programs that can generate an excess or revenues over costs in order to support existing academic programs with the Schools? • Should Harvard develop online programs for students that for various reasons cannot attend residential programs in Cambridge?

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