Leveraging IT to Achieve USHE's Goals

2020: Leveraging IT to achieve USHE’s goals

IT Opportunity in HE
The current model for HE may become financially unsustainable, making college increasingly inaccessible to students.
Technology is a disruptive force to HE.
Technology (when strategically and practically applied) provides increased accessibility and quality to HE.
Current progress at USHE institutions.
Possible Regents’ recommendations.

Regents’ recommendations for future.

The Rising Cost of Higher Ed
Current numbers circulating
439%
147%
106%

Impact of the Recession
↓ Budgets
↑ Tuition, ↑ student debt
↑ Tuition dependency
↓ State resources allocated
↑ Reliance on private and federal funding
↓ Access (low income, first generation students)
↓ Reduction in student completion rates
New normal is cost management and greater productivity
Financing problems are structural, not short-term

Thriving in the Paradox of HE
To survive the university and colleges must break with tradition,
but to thrive they must build on what they have always done best.
Technology investment in teaching, administration, research and public service can bring down the cost and improve quality.
Clayton Christensen Manuscript: University DNA
Speaking of Harvard University

Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
“Born Digital in Video: Overload”
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/projects/digitalnatives/2010/09/overload
Born Digital Assignment

Disruptive technology
“Disruption is a positive force. It is the process by which an innovation (technology) transforms a market whose services or products are complicated and expensive into one where simplicity, convenience, accessibility and affordability characterize the industry.”
Clayton Christensen: Disrupting Class

Top 10 New Disruptive Technologies Impacting Higher Education
Cloud computing
Mobile phones and tablet devices
Social communication and collaboration
Social analytics
Video, interactive, streamed and on demand
Context aware computing
Flash memory
Ubiquitous computing
Electronic Textbooks
Improved Learning Management Systems

Hype Cycle for Education (Gartner, 2010)

Disruptions May Affect Growth

Disruptive Technology
Public Higher
Education
For-Profit Institutions, Internet
Library & Research Information
Professional Degree / Certificates
Tutoring / Advising
Knowledge Creation
Lifelong Learning
Library & Research Information
Professional Degree / Certificates
Knowledge Creation
Tutoring / Advising
Lifelong Learning
Possible?
Apple
Netflix, Hulu
Google, MSN Live, CNN
Google
Recording Industry
Motion Picture / TV
Newspapers / Periodicals
Traditional Library

Bill Gates’ View on HE Future
Five years from now, on the web for free, you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world
College needs to be less “place-based”
University education is just too expensive
Technology is the only way to bring education cost back under control and expand access.
Bill Gates

Most HE Services are Online
Courses
Libraries
Labs
Text books
Classrooms
Administrative processes and services in HR, finance, students, etc.

Competition
Online and commercial courses, modules, objects
For-profit colleges offering a blended, flexible experience
Google digitizing all scholarly books, periodicals, AV materials
Search engines, answer engines
Offerings that satisfy student as consumer

Possible Shifts in Environment

Challenging the Teaching Model
Student Portfolios
Immediate Student Feedback
Course Management Systems
Virginia Tech Math Emporium
Mission Early College High School
The National Center for Academic Transformation

Open Content Initiative
Gates Foundation funding is available to develop online courses that increase access and success in higher education.

Curricular Resources Online
Wikipedia
Academic Earth
Open Educational Resources
You Tube Edu
The Big Think
I Tunes U

Engaging the Classroom

Born Digital: Student Expectations

More Digital Expectations

USHE Technology-Assisted Learning

How IT contributes
Accessibility
Affordability
Efficiency
Simplicity
Accountability
High Quality

How IT Contributes

Administrative Processes First to Move Online
And more …

Teaching and Learning is Now Moving Online
Reduce costs of teaching to $1000/ credit hr.
Learning outcomes comparable to traditional classroom outcomes.
Reduce cost of delivering a full four-degree to less than $13,000.
compared to price of $ 28,000 to $106,000 at the typical public or private institutions, respectively.
Obtain savings on, buildings, parking lots etc. and the student’s convenience.
Clayton Christensen Manuscript: University DNA

New Teaching Technologies Address:

IT Goals to Support USHE 2020
↑ student participation
↑ student completion
↑ the level of economic innovation

Mandatory course conversions – transcending space constraints
IT: Strategic, Practical Uses

IT: Strategic, Practical Uses
↑ success in high failure gateway courses.

Strategic, Practical Objectives to Achieve 2020 Goals
Employ online faculty
Help students overcome educational interruptions (Degree Audit Programs)
Provide expanded transcripts
Join Open Content Initiative
Provide a portal for easy access to courses at little/no cost. (UEN)
Negotiate state contracts for electronic text books (UEN).

USHE Technology-Assisted Learning

% IT Use in U.S. /Utah Instruction

Utah Education Network Technology Available to USHE
Best Networked State in the Nation, UEN
Wimba
Shared screens, interactive whiteboard, archives
Unlimited, synchronous, online classrooms
Voice tools for discussions, podcasting, etc.
Movi (HD teleconferencing state, nation, worldwide)
Pioneer Online Library
E media

Access
Campus Web Portal
Teach
Virtual Rooms
(Wimba)
Course Management System
(Blackboard)
Connect
Learning Content Management System(Equella)
Attached storage
Video
servers
iTunes U
Department file servers
Student web portfolios
Store
Other schools’ repositories
UEN media
Virtual meeting archives
Cloud Sites
(i.e.. YouTube)
Web-enabled Learning Landscape

Equella Learning Content Mgt
Discover and connect media to a course
Control access and use
Faculty control, share and manage
Manage course, department or program curriculum
Store student work and assemble web portfolios

Streaming Video Services
23,448 video clips supporting teaching
43,758 streams delivered in 30 days
500,000 video streams delivered over the course of a year
Serve videos offered through iTunes U

Single Sign-on to Class Resources
Blackboard / course management system
Proctored exam scheduling
Student class feedback survey
iTunes U
Library Reserve materials
Link to faculty page
Link to campus map

Recommendations
Invest in strategic technology and its practical application.
Hire people who are digital natives or successful immigrants.
Include technology and student achievement in campus master plans.
Collaborate on the development and use of strategic online courses.
Provide financial & RPT incentives for providing higher-quality, technologically delivered courses and services.
Take advantage of the national open content, cloud and software initiatives.

A Next Step:
Universities and colleges
will present their specific technology accomplishments in December 2010.

Technology layered on top of old paper, people centered processes will not always reduce costs.

Questions? Comments?
stephen.hess@utah.edu

Leveraging IT to Achieve USHE's Goals

by HigherEdUtah

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

Statistics

Leveraging IT to Achieve USHE’s Goals Presentation Transcript