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