How Technology Is Rewiring CollegeJeff Young | Chronicle of Higher Education@jryoung

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 2003

Marc Zuckerberg

Students Are Rewiring Society

Word of the Year

Disruption

Thiel Fellowship

Pays students $100,000 to not go to college for 2 years and start a business instead.

Challenge to College Professionals

What’s the Point of College?

A Tour of Campus

A Tour of a Rewired Campus

A Tour of a Rewired Campus

ClassroomAdmin Bldg

Res. Hall

CampusQuad

The Rewired Classroom

Disruption 1: Tech is Killing the

Lecture

Analog

First Upgrade

Before

PowerPoint’s Impact

PowerPoint’s Impact

Stage 1

PowerPoint’s Impact

Stage 2

of college tech officers…

“agree or strongly agree that lecture capture is an important part of our campus plan for developing and delivering instructional content.”

63%

We don't desire CDs; we want the music they hold. We don't enjoy reading newspapers, we like the content they produce. Similarly we don't pay tuition for classes, we want the knowledge they provide. Music then newspapers, will professors be next?

Inverted Classroom

Challenge

If lectures happen ahead of time online, what do you do in class?

Stephen Baldridge, an assistant professor of social, sent his students on a campus-wide hunt inspired by the TV reality show The Amazing Race.

His “Amazing Nonprofit Race” had students searching the campus for information about service organizations in the area.

College Class As Reality TV?

“High-Impact Activities”

• First-Year Seminars

• Common Intellectual Experiences

• Learning Communities

• Writing-Intensive Courses

• Collaborative Assignments

• Undergraduate Research

• Diversity/Global Learning

• Service Learning

• Internships

• Capstone Projects* Source: 2010 National Survey of Student Engagement.

“High-Impact Activities”

• First-Year Seminars

• Common Intellectual Experiences

• Learning Communities

• Writing-Intensive Courses

• Collaborative Assignments

• Undergraduate Research

• Diversity/Global Learning

• Service Learning

• Internships

• Capstone Projects* Source: 2010 National Survey of Student Engagement.

“The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.” – Steve Jobs

A Tour of a Rewired Campus

ClassroomAdmin Bldg

Res. Hall

CampusQuad

“Classroom” of the Future?

Tech Gear Students Own

87%

* Source: ECAR 2011 national study of 3,000 students from 1,179 colleges.

Tech Gear Students Own

87%

* Source: ECAR 2011 national study of 3,000 students from 1,179 colleges.

55%

Tech Gear Students Own

87%

* Source: ECAR 2011 national study of 3,000 students from 1,179 colleges.

55%

8%

Network Overload

Sept 2011 – Network overloaded due to record # of wireless devices.

Sept 2011 – Network overloaded due to record # of wireless devices.

Total of 8,000 devices online, compared to 900 previous year.

In March 2011, Ohio University temporarily blocked Netflix.

In March 2011, Ohio University temporarily blocked Netflix.

Video service is “largest single consumer of our Internet capacity.”

Rewired College Administration

Students Services by the Numbers

Data

Question: Why haven’t colleges done more quantitative experiments to test their own educational and business practices.

Academic Advising the Data-Driven Way

The Rewired Campus Quad

E-Mail is for Old People

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project

E-Mail is for Old People

Frequent texters (74% of students) send or receive an average of 84 text messages a day.

Frequent Facebook users (58% of students) check Facebook 13 times a day.

Frequent Twitter users (11% of students) read or post 112 tweets a day.

And Students Use E-mail

75% of students are frequent e-mail users.

They send or receive an average of 25 e-mails a day.

Managing Split Personalities

The Many Voices of Campus

The Many Voices of Campus

Voer

Draft social-media policy drew controversy…

v

Day Without Tech

Annual 5-Day Social-Media Blackout

A Tour of a Rewired Campus

Disruption Summary

Rewired Teaching Methods

Rise of Mobile

Data-Driven Services

Social-Networks as Campus Common

Some Final Thoughts

Colleges are great at sharing…

Some Final Thoughts

Colleges are great at sharing…

But not as good at learning from other industries.

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