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Faculty President’s Report, Wright State University Board of Trustees

February 15, 2013. Faculty President’s Report, Wright State University Board of Trustees. Changing Landscape of Higher Education. Massive Open Online Courses Timeline 2007: Graduate courses offered free online 2011 : Thrun & Norvig offers an AI course to 160,000 students

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Faculty President’s Report, Wright State University Board of Trustees

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  1. February 15, 2013 Faculty President’s Report,Wright State UniversityBoard of Trustees

  2. Changing Landscape of Higher Education Massive Open Online Courses • Timeline • 2007: Graduate courses offered free online • 2011: Thrun& Norvig offers an AI course to 160,000 students • 2011: Stanford launches “Coursera” • 2011: MIT, Harvard and UC Berkeley form edX • 2012: High school MOOC launched • 2013: ACE approves credit for five Coursera courses • Impact (headlines) • MOOCs May Lead To Broader Access To Higher Education. • Community Colleges Offering Adapted Version Of MIT Online Courses. • American Council on Education Announces that Five Coursera Course Have Earned Credit Recommendations.

  3. Changing Landscape of Higher Education • Gov. Rick Scott challenges Florida’s community and state colleges to develop baccalaureate degrees that cost students no more than $10,000 in tuition, and get them a job in four years. • Potential $10,000 degrees in high-demand programs such as information technology, business and organization management, education and engineering technology. • State support will be tied to job placement rate and graduate salaries. • Texas is experimenting a bachelor's degree for $10,000, including tuition fees and textbooks.

  4. The world has changed • Information used to be scarce and needed to be concentrated in order to be effectively delivered. • Information is now abundant and there are more efficient ways to deliver it than in lecture halls. • Knowing how to manage and use information is now an even more important skill.

  5. A sense of urgency • How do we provide something of value to our students that they cannot obtain in an on-line environment?

  6. Things in the works • New classroom building • Inverted, SCALE-UP classes • Student success center • Student success initiatives • First year seminars, service learning, preparedness, student recruitment, CIO • Academic policies: admissions criteria, missed classes, faculty constitution • Search for a chief academic officer • Research

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