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How Technology is Creating the New University
Jerry Ice, Ed.D.
CEO and President
Graduate School
Growth of Distance Education• Distance education is mainstream.• 1.6 million students took at least one online course in fall of 2002.• Over 4.6 million students took at least one online course during the fall
2008 term.• The growth from 2002 to 2008 represents a compound annual growth
rate of 19%.• Overall, higher education has only grown at an annual rate of around
1.5% during this same period (from 16.6 million in fall 2002 to 18.2 million for fall 2008 ).
Who is Taking Online Courses?
• Over 25% of higher education students take at least one course online.
• 82% are undergraduates, 14% graduate-level, and the remainder are taking for-credit courses.
• Distribution of online students by education type mirrors that of the entire higher education student body.
• Non-traditional students such as working adults are big part of the growth of online courses.
Growth of Distance Education
34%
56%
66%
1997-1996 2000-2001 2006-2007
Percent of Post Secondary Institutions Offering DE by Academic Year
What Institutions Are Offering DE?
• In the 2006-2007 academic year, 66% of the 4,160 2-year and 4-yearTitle IV degree-granting post-secondary institutions in the nation offered college-level distance education courses: – 97 % of public 2-year institutions– 18 % of private for-profit 2-year institutions– 89 % of public 4-year institutions– 53 % of private not-for-profit institutions – 70 % of private for-profit 4-year institutions
Recent History of Distance Ed and Technology
• Distance education has grown from the traditional correspondence courses.• Synchronous and asynchronous Internet-based courses became very
popular in the last 10 years and are still widely used.• New technologies are evolving that can be integrated into both traditional
online distance education and classroom courses:– Virtual worlds such as SecondLife– Services such as iTunes U to disseminate materials– Mobile learning and just-in-time training on mobile devices
Virtual Worlds• Colleges and universities
have set up campuses on islands, where classes meet and students interact in real time.
• They can hold chat discussions and create multimedia presentations from virtual building blocks called prims.
Who’s Using Virtual Worlds?
• Harvard Law School offered “CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion,” which explored public expression and new media.
• Pepperdine University students in education technology classes create multimedia presentations to give to students in virtual locations.
• The Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA) is exploring the development and promotion of virtual worlds and virtual reality technologies for professional research in astronomy and its related fields.
iTunesU
• Described by Apple as “an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students.”
• Content can include lectures, syllabi, notes, slideshows, PDFs, films, and more.
• Students download content for use on any personal computer, iPod, or iPhone.
• Over 600 universities across the world have content on iTunes U, about half distribute content publicly.
• Beyond the Campus section includes further content from entities such as MoMA, Public Radio International, and PBS stations.
Content on iTunes U
• Stanford University offers full courses, single lectures, and other content such as past commencement speakers for free.
• MIT shares course materials from virtually all of their curriculum through OpenCourseWare. Additionally, significant public events with speakers and guests are shared.
• Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia uses iTunes U as a portal to the school including links to the Student Portal, Events on Campus, and a podcast sharing campus news. Certain academic content is also offered.
• In the Beyond Campus section, the Tate museum offers both audio podcasts of events and video podcasts highlighting new exhibitions.
iPods in the University
• In 2004 Duke University distributed iPods to over 1,600 first-year students.
• At the end of the academic year, 75% of these students reported using “at least one iPod feature in a class or for independent support of their studies.”– At least 15 fall courses with total enrollment of 628 unique students
and 33 spring courses with enrollment over 600• Courses integrating iPods ranged from foreign languages and music to
other social science and humanities courses and even to engineering
iPods in the University – Results
• At Duke University evaluation identified four key impacts of the experiment:– “increased collaboration and communication…”– “…yielded many contacts, partnerships, and nascent collaborations
with other higher education institutions…”– “The project catalyzed conversations among faculty, administrators,
staff, and students about…technology…”– “Increased visibility for Duke’s institutional commitment to
technology…”
Mobile Learning at Abilene Christian University (ACU)• ACU found, “One of the biggest challenges in
mobile learning has been…classes where perhaps all but one student has an iPhone”
• Solution: ACU provides all students iPhones or iPod Touches to use in and out of class
• ACU has also created several web applications to support mobile learning:– Homework alerts– In-class response surveys and quizzes– Directions to professors’ offices– Meal and account balances
Mobile Learning in the Private Sector
• Merrill Lynch was an early adopter of mobile learning. Deployed mandatory training courses over BlackBerry, resulting in higher completion rates and shorter completion times.
• Accenture has deployed SCORM compliant courses successfully on BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows mobile devices. They report higher user satisfaction ratings than for computer-based versions of the same material.
• Epocrates provides mobile- and web-based information and training to over 1 in 3 medical professionals in the US. Their products are available on iPhones and iPod Touch, Blackberry, Palm, Android, and Windows mobile devices.
At the Graduate School
• Our GS Connect distance education courses feature interactive elements for both synchronous and asynchronous learning.
• Streaming audio and video make the content come alive.• Students can connect with both experts and their
peers from anywhere at any time.• Modular, flexible content means easily customizable courses.• Developing content for iPods and iTunes U.• Assessing the use of Second Life and Mobil learning devises.
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