With more than 250,000 students generating 50 million hits a day across 42 terabytes of content and 160,000 courses, the University System of Georgia's learning system is no stranger to the need for high-performance wireless infrastructure. Providing a private cloud serving other state agencies, including the Georgia Department of Education's 189 school districts and 1.6 million students, means that the university system must provide the best available wireless strategy and technologies. Join us to learn how they do it.

1. A Wireless Roadmap for 250,000
Users and Growth
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
Board of Regents

2. Agenda
• An Imperative for Change
• Consumerization and Wireless
• Cloud and Wireless

3. AN IMPERATIVE FOR CHANGE

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1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
Bachelor'sDegreeAttainmentRate
(moving3-yeraverage)
Bottom Income Quartile
Second Income Quartile
Third Income Quartile
Top Income Quartile 82.4%
40.2%
14.9%
36.1%
16.5%
10.9%
6.2% 8.3%
Baccalaureate Degree Attainment by Age 24 by Family Income Quartile
Source: New York Times, “The Reproduction of Privilege,” March 12, 2012

5. 5
31% 32%
40%
48%
51%
56% 58%
20%
25%
30%
35%
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50%
55%
60%
Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013
Pell
New Freshmen
CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS

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$2,000
$3,000
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Average Unmet Need
Freshman
Sophomore
CHALLENGES: FRAGILE FINANCES ON THE RISE
Average Unmet Need
2005 2012 2013
Seniors $ 5,222 $ 6,792 $ 8,303
Undergraduates $ 4,224 $ 5,785 $ 6,793

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(Fall 2008, Undergraduate Students)
Georgia State has
been awarded a
$600,000 NSF
grant to pilot a
program which fills
unmet need for
science majors and
tracks the resulting
impact on academic
performance.
Percent of Students with a 3.0 GPA or Above
by Financial Need
Impact Of Unmet Financial Need
On Academic Performance
THE CHALLENGE IN FRONT OF US

8. 60.9%
21.2%
0%
18%
36%
54%
72%
HOPE HOPE Hope - No
HOPE
Impact of the Loss of HOPE at GSU (2008)
Students who
lose HOPE
support graduate
at only half the
rate of those who
never had HOPE
support in the
first place.
High
School
GPA 3.0 +
High
School
GPA 3.0 +
Six-Year Graduation Rate
THE CHALLENGE IN FRONT OF US

9. Source: OECD Education at a Glance (2008); U.S. Census Bureau; American College Survey
Percent of Adults Age 25 to 34 Holding an
Associate’s Degree or Higher

10. http://www.oecd.org
The Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development

11. APPROACH
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12. Security
Business
Intel
Real-
Time
LocationSocial
Privacy
Global
Consumerization
Cloud
Big Data

13. 6.8 billion people….
5.1 own cell phones….
4.1 own toothbrushes….

15. Consumerization
• Bring Your Own Device Policy
• Cell Phone Stipends
• Bring Your Own Device Only

16. Leverage Cloud Technologies
• PeachNet
• GALILEO
• Desire2Learn as SaaS
• Standard
– Student Advising System
– Student Information
System
– Financial System

17. PeachNet
• For faculty to innovate with technology, the
technology must always work in the
classroom.
• The Georgia Department of Education joining
PeachNet in July 2015.
• This creates new opportunities to educate and
inspire students.

18. Delivery Systems
• Not the learning management system of 5 years ago
• D2L, Coursera, Udacity
• USG D2L
– 250,000 daily users
– 50 million hits a day
– 99.9% system availability
– 50 add-ons active
– Mobile access
Traditional Classes,
Flipped Classes,
MOOCs, Online
Classes, Distance
Education Classes,
K-12 classes
http://techworldbd.com/smart-technologies-smart-education/

19. Affordable Resources
• We are at a point of
transformation in the
publishing industry.
• Many students cannot
afford textbooks.
• Does the value in
hundreds of different
USG versions of English
101 outweigh the cost?
• We need to start
collaborating on
purchasing textbooks.
• We need to accelerating
faculty creation of USG
textbooks.
• Ecore is a great place to
start.
• Governor Deal is investing
in this transformation.
Image from http://www.thelabsimexperience.com/2011/04/trends-in-ed-tech-mobile-devices-in.html

20. Questions, Comments,
A Conversation?
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and CIO
Board of Regents