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Higher Education in
the Online World
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Higher Education in the
Online World
HIGHLIGHTS
Earlier higher education was considered to be
largely immune to economic cycle. However,
several new tides have buffeted the higher
education system caused by an unexpectedly
prolonged economic downturn.
The objective of this paper is to analyse these
changes and understand the role of online
information technologies (IT) in responding to
the changes
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Spending Crisis: Downturn & Demography
• Due to the continuing downturn, state spending is also reducing as a share of per capita real
educational costs.
• Two reasons for higher enrolment in HEIs
• Downturns
• Fewer jobs and greater competition for existing jobs
19%
19%
34%
7.60%
18.10%
2.20% Public Research University
Public Other 4- year
Public 2 Year
Private Research University
Private Other 4 - Year
Private 2 - Year
Some interesting statistics
• Out of the USA’s 21 million enrolled students,
72% went to public colleges and universities in
2010
• About 60% of students (FTE-adjusted) enroll in
four-year colleges and 40% of students enroll in
two-year colleges
Enrolment by Institution Type
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Internationalization of Higher Education
• By 2009, 690,000 foreign students were enrolled in US HEIs • Decadal growth rate of 2.6% and about 3.5% of total enrolment of 20.4 million
• Many foreign students are critical elements of masters and doctoral programs,
particularly in research-intensive universities.
• Case in point: Stanford University’s Computer Science Department, about three
fourths of the doctoral students come from overseas.
The US recognizes that it needs to do more at the level of higher
education to retain its leadership position
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The Seven Implications
1 • Deleting or reducing academic programs
2 • Greater emphasis on remedial education among underprepared groups
3
• Greater emphasis on upper levels of education and research among well-prepared K-12 graduates
4 • Shift to research-intensive education for the privileged
5 • Greater reliance on part-time faculty
6 • Greater reliance on international students
7
• Impact on other stakeholders: (Greater spending on CRM systems, online synchronous and asynchronous instruction, online learning management and instructional design and online research management, publishers developing online course material)
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Voices of Stakeholders
Administrators view learning
technologies as only one
component, and not even the
major one within the domain of
technologies that improve the
efficiency of learning.
Textbook publishers and
library software providers
see learning technologies
as the leading edge of
change in higher
education.
For administrators the primary
need in learning technology is
better user data management to
enable the smooth functioning of
admissions, enrolment, grading
and other requirements.
Elite institutions worry less
about spending on
synchronous learning than on
how to support face-to-face
teacher student interaction
through technologies.
MOOCs (massive open
online courses) are less
relevant to the elite
institutions than to the
average public college.
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Trends in Growth and IT Spending
• Unexpected importance of administrators in leading the on boarding of online
technologies
• The funding crisis is shifting more responsibility away from faculty (who were the
traditional decision makers) to professional managers.
• The role of the system integrator appears to have become critical
• The growing use of social media for learning requires integration of college software
with social media, while maintaining security under compliance laws
• To reduce costs, many HEIs are shifting out of proprietary systems to open-source or
free software
It is expected that SIs and startups will deliver fairly significant changes to the
educational experience by making use of online technologies
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Categories of Technological Change
• Making the experience faster and cheaper
• Incorporating personal consumer devices such as smartphones
• Better quality of information, pedagogical tools and research collaboration
Complementary Technologies
• Re-usable digitized lectures and artificial intelligence tools
Substitutive Technologies
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Discussions and Conclusion
HEIs, which are traditionally conservative, have
become open to online technologies
Administrators, not faculty, are leading the on
boarding on online technologies
Despite the interest in startups as leading the
technological shift, the role of the system integrator
has become ever more critical
Disruptive technologies are not immediately visible on
the horizon
Demand for teaching that could substitute for the
lecturer facing a large class in which teacher-student
interaction is limited
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