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The Changing Role
of Higher Education:
Meeting Today’s
Workforce
Needs*Evaluation Keyword: nebaker
July 24, 2014
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Who is Georgia Tech?
~21,500 degree seeking students 14,500 undergraduate students 7,000 graduate students
~13,525 non-credit students through GTPE 1,060 faculty; 6,490 staff ~$1.4B annual revenues ~$2.2B economic impact
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Changing Role of Higher Education
Student debt exceeds consumer credit card debt Tuition increases outpacing all other sectors Higher education is tasked with:
Creating employable graduates Ensuring not only jobs, but careers Engaging students after high school…and forever Performing research AND creating companies Instilling innovation and creativity
•Academic division•Credit/Non-credit programs• 13,525 individuals
representing over 3,000 companies
• Representation from more than half the world’s countries
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“The vast majority of learners in higher education are not eighteen to twenty-two. The minority is now the majority. We are still focusing a great deal of our research on what used to be the traditional. What was traditional is now the nontraditional. That is truly a seismic shift.” L. Lee Knefelkamp, professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and a senior scholar at Association of American Colleges & Universities (http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi11/prwi11_Interview.cfm)
Changing Student Demographics
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Adult learners aged 25 and over have grown by 41% in the last decade and are predicted to grow by another 14% this decade. National Center for Education Statistics. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98
Adults Exhibit Faster Growth
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Why do adults pursue professional education?
Want higher salary Want a better/new job Need to keep current/refresh skills Unemployed Want an advanced credential Enjoy learning Licensing/certification requirements Employer-mandated
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Why do employers pursue professional education?
Employers need better trained employees.
GTPE can help companies build their pipeline of employees from
the inside.
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Professional certificates make up 22% of all college awards, up from 6% in 1980. Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
Credentialing
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Serving Learner Needs
Non-credit
Free Certified Certificate
Sequence Non-credit Course
Completion Certificate
MOOC
Non-credit Program
Certificate
Portion Credit
Credit
Degree
GT
Spectrum of Credentialing for Adult Learners
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Students expect flexible formats:
The Classroom Has Changed
Face-to-Face
Online
Hybrid
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Master’s Degrees via Distance LearningGeorgia Tech-Online has a catalog of more than 100 semester-based, credit courses.
Annual enrollment of 600 online grad students = 17% of Georgia Tech’s master’s degree students.
Online degrees conferred annually = 8% of all Tech master’s degrees conferred.
A nationwide study of distance education showed 22% enrolled in distance education in fall 2012 were at the graduate level. U.S. Department of Education, June 2014. Enrollment in Distance Education Courses, by State: Fall 2012
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Open Access
July 2012, Georgia Tech signed agreement with Coursera.
Tech currently carries about 10% of Coursera’s total MOOC enrollments (616,430 as of March 2014).
Nearly two dozen flipped class experiments.
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Udacity partnership AT&T gift MOOC platform GT governance GT degree /non-credit GT processes GT Intellectual Property
Online Master of Science in Computer Science
(OMS CS)
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OMS CS
Announced, May 2013 First Class, Jan 2014
385 individuals Average age: 11 years older Flipped nationality: 85% domestic
Expected 1,200 students Aug 2014 Expected 2,000+ Jan 2015
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OMS CS Non-Credit Program
Five courses from degree program launching fall 2015.
Courses identical to master’s program, with content revised to fit needs of busy professionals. – Students earn Certificate of Course Completion
and CEUs (Continuing Education Units) – 78 students in first summer ‘14 non-credit
machine learning course.
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Our Role in Responding to Disruption Developing more effective and relevant learning
solutions for students and employers. Not just technology, but transforming the model.
Designing programs to give students real-world solutions for the workplace.
Knowledgeable employees = improved human capital for companies. An engaged workforce translates to better
productivity and better bottom lines.
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Evaluation Keyword
nebaker