UOC in the Global University System

Josep A. Planell President of the UOC 18th December 2013

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A community of more than 60,000 students

41,784 graduates

60,096 students

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UOC students in 105 countries

OVER 45,000

OVER 11,000

OVER 1,000

OVER 3,500

OVER 50

CATALONIA

SPAIN (EXCL. CATALONIA)

EUROPE (EXCL. SPAIN)

LATIN AMERICA

ASIA

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A team with one shared aim: quality

ADMIN. STAFF

491 RESEARCH

STAFF

86 TEACHING

COLLABORATORS

3,378 FACULTY

256

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Evolution of the number of graduates (Degree and Master)

24.868

28.867

5.706 6.500

30.574*

35.367*

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5.000

10.000

15.000

20.000

25.000

30.000

35.000

40.000

Campus Català Campus Global Total

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Evolution of the number of academic staff

Course 2001/02

Course 2002/03

Course 2003/04

Course 2004/05

Course 2005/06

Course 2006/07

Course 2007/08

Course 2008/09

Course 2009/10

Course 2010/11

Course 2011/12

Course 2012/13

Full time (contract) 94 126 129 135 139 153 187 200 234 249 256 260

Instructors/ collaborators 1.113 1.438 1.747 1.967 1.969 1.952 2.043 2.346 2.804 3.155 3.378 3.406

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A flexible offer adapted to students’ needs

Academic Areas

Arts and Humanities Health Sciences Information and Communication Science Law and Political Science Economics and Business Studies IT, Multimedia and Telecommunications Psychology and Education Sciences

Course offering Bachelor’s degrees Master’s degrees Postgraduate courses Doctoral programmes Open short courses In-company training

Research Centres Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) E-learn Centre (eLC)

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Governance Model and Campuses Created in 1995 fully online. Asynchronous.

Public institution (foundation) privately managed. Receives public funding from the Government of Catalonia (below 30% of the budget). Faculty works under contract: they are not civil servants like in the rest of public universities.

3 Virtual campuses (linguistic not territorial): Catalan, Spanish and English with 3.385 virtual classrooms.

Open? Universally accessible (with admission requirements)

UOC – Born on-line (1995) ICT Pedagogy/ Organization Didactics Structure

The learning model affects directly the structure and consequently governance

e-learner: average age 35

Demanding, competences and values Autonomous learning

Teamworking and networking

Time self-organization

Effort culture

Determination

Toughness

Globalitzation of Higher Education

Increased intensity of recruitment of students and faculty Branch campuses

Mobilization of huge funds to create world-class universities

(by upgrading existing ones or by creating and buiding new ones)

Innovative efforts by on-line universities and for-profit institutions to fill unmet needs in higher education markets worldwide

Relevance of rankings

Challenges and opportunities Growing needs of on-line education

Challenges and opportunities

Global needs for Higher Education

Challenges and opportunities

Emergence of a digital generation

Ubiquity and mobile devices

Impossible increase of the number of face-to face universities with public funds

→ economic sustainability

Challenges and opportunities Emergence of new on-line low-cost education models

American University of London sells study-free MBA By Jim Reed and Mike Deri Smith BBC Newsnight

Challenges and opportunities Increased competence from face-to-face universities moving to on-line

education

Challenges and opportunities Adequation to the changing social, professional and entrepreneurial needs

E = a ( k . t + v) ? [Luis Conde]

Future UOC goals Global and inclusive

university

Accreditated learning methodology and quality

World class research

Economically sustainable

Oriented to the employability of its graduates

Find equilibrium within the Iron Triangle: Cost – Access - Quality

Thank you for your attention!

Josep A. Planell President of the UOC

UOC in the Global University System 18th December 2013