The document outlines plans for an Emerging Technologies Certificate program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The program would offer an online-hybrid curriculum focused on teaching relevant skills in emerging technologies through project-oriented courses. It would provide a college-level credential that is more agile, practical and cost-effective than a traditional degree program. The certificate would consist of six courses over 18 credits covering areas like digital media marketing, computer science, studio arts and media studies. Courses would be taught by UMSL faculty with support from professional partners and would involve seminars, hackathons and collaborations to prepare students for careers utilizing emerging technologies.

1. BC Biermann . PHD
[ Provisional Certificate Program ]
EmTech
[ Emerging Technologies ]
University of Missouri . Saint Louis

2. In general, why this disruption is happening:
Peter Thiel, partner, Founders Fund
“In the United States, students don’t get their money’s worth. There’s a bubble in education as out of control
as the housing bubble and the tech bubble in the 1990s. Education costs have gone up 400% since 1980. That’s
the highest escalation of costs--higher than health care. There’s now a trillion dollars in student debt. And
thanks to the way bankruptcy laws were restructured, you can’t get out of the college loan even if you become
bankrupt. This is deeply broken.”
Where we are in the evolution of disruptive online education:
Larry Summers, former President of Harvard
“It’s important to remember this really wise quote when thinking about the transition to online ed: ‘Things take
longer to happen than you think they will and then they happen faster than you think they could.’ It’s hard to
know when it will happen but at some point this will be transformative. The first stage is when it does what was
being done before but better. That’s what is happening now. But we’re going to where we don’t need to have
two semesters, classes of same length, grading on the basis of things called exams. You can’t think of another
industry where a list of top 10 providers is perfectly correlated to what it was in 1960.”
Emerging Technologies Certificate is “disruptive innovation” in education.
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Concept: a progressive, agile online-hybrid curriculum designed
to teach relevant and employable skill sets in emerging technologies
Sebastian Thrun, CEO of uDacity
“The credential thing is interesting- we launched a class for credit with California schools for remedial math. We priced them at 10-15
percent of what college costs. There are lots of improvements to be made, but the outcome tends to be better today with us.”
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digital media marketing:
analytics, mobile
marketing
studio arts:
front end design,
composition,
aesthetics
A College-Level / Stand-Alone Certificate
media studies:
critical analysis, media
theory, media history
Available for credit
to all currently
enrolled graduate and
undergraduate UMSL
students studying
primarily in (but not
limited to) media studies,
studio arts, computer
science, and digital
media, as well as
other UMSL students
with the requisite skill
sets (as determined
by the professor and
EM Coordinator or Co-
Coordinator). Non-UMSL
students can also take
courses for non-credit
and a reduced fee.
college-level &
interdisciplinary
computer science:
web design, back
end programming
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5. Emerging Media 5EmTech
online
hybrid
• immersive online courses
• taught through professional studies
• courses open to grad & undergrad students
for credit and the public for non-credit
• 2 courses per semester
• 2 seminars per semester at Grand Center
• seminars and hackathons: free for UMSL
students and open to the public for a paid fee
• 1 hackathon per semster at Grand Center;
hackathons sponsored by entities that furnish
prizes
Seminars
Oct. 19: Mobile Augmented Reality
Nov. 16: Video Projection Mapping
Feb 15: 3D Modeling for Gaming
Mar 15: Interactive Web & Animation
Seminars led by BC Biermann, UMSL
Faculty, and National & International
innovators ( w/ honorarium)
Hackathons
Dec. 14: Hackathon Tech Art
(to create a tech art / public space project)
Apr. 19: Hackathon Game Jam
(to create a mobile game)
Hackathons to be sponsored by cultural
organizations and private corporations
looking for innovative tech solutions
Skill-Set Driven Courses
Courses designed for immersive &
intensive training in a focused,
specialized skill set within a domain of
emerging technologies
Courses open to both grad and
undergrad students at the discretion of the instructor.
Students who possess the requisite desire and skill sets,
but not pre-requsitue courses, should not be prevented
from take EmTech courses, but rather encouraged.
An Online-Hybrid &
Monetized Solution

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Daphne Koller, founder of Coursera
“We’re at 2.4 million students now. The biggest lesson
I’ve learned on this is I underestimated the amount of
impact this would have around the world. I really didn’t
envision this scale and this impact this quickly.”
agile & scalable
curriculum
Optimizing
for Emerging
Technologies:
3 Hours
Methodologies
in Tech Art:
3 Hours
Designing for
Mobile Devices:
3 Hours
3D Design for
Mobile Gaming:
3 Hours
Interactive Web
and Animation:
3 Hours
Special Instructor Consent: based on
student having intermediate skills in:
• Web Programming, 3D Modeling,
Animation
• Course teaches techniques and
working methods in the creation of
digital art forms using such technologies
as html5 canvas, processing.js,
augmented reality, 3D modeling and
animation.
Special Instructor Consent: based on
student having intermediate skills in:
• CS6: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere (or Final
Cut), After Effects
• Course teaches how to optimize digital assets
for mobile devices, mobile web, web video,
video mapping, and rich media.
Special Instructor Consent: based
on student having intermediate
skills in:
• CS6: Photoshop, Illustrator, Web
Programming
• Course teaches how to design both
frontend user-interfaces and backend
responsive design for the mobile web.
Special Instructor Consent: based on
student having intermediate skills in:
• CS6: Edge, Flash, Web Programming
(processing.js)
• Course teaches how to design
interactive web applications and web
animations.
Special Instructor Consent: based on student
having intermediate skills in:
• CS6: Photoshop, 3D Modeling
• Course teaches how to design 3D digital assets
that are optimized for use in mobile games.
Agile & Scalable
Monetizing
Emerging
Technologies:
3 Hours
Special Instructor Consent:
• Course covers the business elements
that a developer/designer needs to
consider when building a career around
EmTech. What are the job roles and
what kind of work is available? How do
you conceptualize business strategies
around your work? How do you pick
your platforms? How do you think about
and plan for strategic partnerships?
How do you find funding for your
venture? How do you market your work
or services?

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emerging technologies
course creation &
instruction
Methodologies in
Tech Art:
BC Biermann
Ray Harmon
Glen Anderson
Jim Fay
Designing for
Mobile Devices:
BC Biermann
3D Design for
Mobile Gaming:
BC Biermann
Ean Mering
Interactive Web and
Animation:
BC Biermann
Patrick McNeil
Optimizing for
Emerging Technologies:
BC Biermann
Ean Mering
Certificate Content [ six courses 18 credits ]
Monetizing Emerging
Technologies
BC Biermann
Chris Nunes
Perry Drake

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Raphael Reif, president of MIT
“We manage this transition very carefully. How can MIT charge $50,000 for tuition going forward? Can we justify that in the future?
We see three components to MIT- first there’s the student life, then there’s the classroom instruction, but for us, the projects and
labs activity is where real education occurs. But I don’t think we can charge that much for tuition in the future and it’s a big pressure
point for us.”
Sebastian Thrun, CEO of uDacity
“I think the question is how do you make the credential have
currency that an employer knows? We’ve had good success.
We have 350 companies who have hired our students.
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
“What does this all mean? The technology gives us tremendous power to
solve this stark problem all around us. We need to design these so no
child is left out of this. What need to ask, what is education after all? We
need to resolve that. What are we getting our young people ready for? It’s
for the purpose of our life. And we need to make sure we give people a
purpose to their life. It won’t be done by current system.”
• portfolio driven
• curriculum geared toward building real-world
deployments
• designed around building woking / potentially
monetizeable products
• projects designed for practicality and
problem-solving
Preparing Students for Current and Future Careers
• encourages and cultivates a DIY spirit
• open to any / all students with the requisite desire
and skill sets regardless of prereqursites
• utilizes video conferencing to maintain consistent
communication
• aimed toward preparing students for industry jobs
project-oriented &
student-centered

9. Advisory Committee will meet as an online Google Hangout approximately 1x per month.
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computer science
Cezary Janikow
Sanjiv Bhatia
bc biermann
media studies
Thomas McPhail
Jim Fay
Glen Anderson
studio arts
Louis Lankford
Gretchen Schisla
Jennifer McKnight
art | tech
ean mering
jordan seiler
ray harmon
digital media marketing
Perry Drake
Tom Walker
tech business
chris nunes
Provisional Advising Committee
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Rafael Reif, president of MIT
[On the question of how to hire professors in the MOOC era] “Can
you hire MIT professors who know that they need to teach 150,000
people and not 150? We have spectacular researchers who are lousy
teachers. That’s sad. A teacher in the future will become more like a
mentor. The model of on campus education will be more about
mentorship and guidance with research as an important factor.”
Optimizing for
Emerging Technologies
Designing for Mobile Devices
Interactive Web & Animation
3D Design for Mobile Gaming
Tech Art
Monetizing
Emerging
Technologies
4 Seminars / 2 Hackathons
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
Same Rotation
MOOC Research Results
Submitted to Advisory
Committee
MOOC
Massive Open Online Course
Fall 2015 or 2016
Summer 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Provisional Curriculum Roadmap

11. Provisional Academic & Professional Collaboration
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* patrick mcneil
asst. prof. of graphic design
* perry drake
asst. prof. of business
* ean mering
creative director
clients: google, spotify &
bosch
based in los angeles
* ray harmon
tech artist, painter,
filmmaker
based in london
* chris nunes
entertainment lawyer,
CEO Holofy
based in san francisco
emerging technologies team
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* jim fay
prof. of media studies
* glen anderson
asst. prof. of media studies
professional partners paid by UMSL & provided honorariums for additional activities
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12. BC Biermann UMSL Roadmap
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BC Biermann
Course Creation &
Instruction
BC Biermann
EmTech Co-Coordinator
MOOC Research
Course Instruction
Summer 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Fall 2014 - Summer 2015
BC Biermann
Course Creation &
Instruction
BC Biermann
Course Creation &
Instruction
Fall 2016 - FutureFall 2015 - Summer 2016
Co-Coordinator:
Patrick McNeil
or
Future Hire
BC Biermann
EmTech Co-Coordinator
Course Instruction
MOOC Research & Implementation
BC Biermann
EmTech Co-Coordinator
Course Instruction
MOOC Research & Implementation
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