Extended Learning Mission is to provide seamless access to academic courses, lifelong learning opportunities, and student services through a personalized yet convenient process. Through investments in technology and innovative intellectual opportunities, WVU Extended Learning promotes greater educational access to improve the economic health and well-being of the citizens of West Virginia and our global society. Dr. Sue Day-Perroots, Dean July 2007
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Extended Learning
Mission is to provide seamless access to academic courses, lifelong learning opportunities, and student services through a personalized yet convenient process. Through investments in technology and innovative intellectual opportunities, WVU Extended Learning promotes greater educational access to improve the economic health and well-being of the citizens of West Virginia and our global society.
Dr. Sue Day-Perroots, DeanJuly 2007
A View of 2020• The location of a college, and the geographic
spread of its influence and recruiting area, will be the most significant factor in determining its flow of enrollees in the next decade. *
• The Northeastern states will see a consistent decline in graduates of about 1% per year.
• The South will consistently increase and there will be 9.4% more grads in 2020-21 than in 08-09.
Projected Change in H.S. Graduates to 2018
Educational Attainment in WV
Male25 to 34 years: 113,743
Less than 9th grade 2,349
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 12,900
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 47,960
Some college, no degree 23,094
Associate degree 6,593
Bachelor's degree 15,157
Graduate or professional degree 5,690
35 to 44 years: 120,579
Less than 9th grade 3,878
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 12,914
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 54,198
Some college, no degree 20,792
Associate degree 7,628
Bachelor's degree 13,876
Graduate or professional degree 7,293
Female25 to 34 years: 113,390
Less than 9th grade 1,885
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 9,571
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 38,438
Some college, no degree 26,722
Associate degree 10,631
Bachelor's degree 18,950
Graduate or professional degree 7,193
35 to 44 years: 122,425
Less than 9th grade 2,703
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 10,703
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 47,581
Some college, no degree 24,527
Associate degree 12,202
Bachelor's degree 16,397
Graduate or professional degree 8,312
Question:• Of today’s college students, how many of them fit
the traditional image of 18-22 year, full-time, living on campus?
83%
57%
33%
16%
If you said 16% you were
• The “over 25” population is the fastest-growing student segment in higher education and has consistently increased during the last three decades. Peter Stokes, Paper for the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education
Correct
Adult Learners• Fastest growing student population
• The student body is getting older (25-44)
• Will be even more heavily weighted toward women
• Part time students
• Working full-time
• While the enrollment is projected to grow faster at private institutions, that is probably because for-profit colleges are private.
• Flexible payment and financial aid opportunities
• From 2007 to 2016, the population of college students ages 18 to 24 will increase by 11.1 percent, but the population of students ages 25 to 34 will increase by 26.8 percent (US Dept of Ed -Center for Ed Statistics)
Online Learners
• Nothing is as likely to change the face of higher education over the next decade as the switch to more online learning.
• The enrollment in distance-education courses nearly quadrupled, from 3,077,000 to 12,153,000 from 2000 - 2007.
• Students (digital natives) AND adult learners (convenience) are demanding online courses.
• Greater than 20% of students are enrolled in at least 1 online course (Fall, 2007).
Online Learning• Associate’s institutions teach over ½ of all online
students
• Community Colleges entered online later, but identified as central to mission
• Colleges serving working adults are most positive about enrollment potential
• 85% online enrollments w/in 50 mile radius of campus – beginning to see change with for-profit private marketing
• 1 in 5 institutions offered 1st online courses in 2007. WVU began in 1999.
Why is this important?• Adult student programs will more than likely be
called upon even more heavily to generate revenue to add to the institution’s bottom line
• Programs focused on serving adult students are the largest potential growth market, according to demographics, in higher education
• Adult student programs able to serve minority students well will be better positioned to compete (particularly in the South)
Importance – continued
• Online addresses flexibility in schedules & lives
• Online addresses access during commute, or from workplace, home
WVU Extended LearningYour source for online and off-campus
• Extended Learning = 62,634 credit hours (77% distance ed); Over 3,200 student per term + 1,300 enrolled in “both” online & on-campus.
• Continuing and Professional Education served 2,747 adult learners. Collaboration with Forensics and its numerous online opportunities accounted for much of this 68% annual increase.
• Over 647 high school students enrolled in WVU courses in their high schools
Programming• Undergraduate – Online
3 degree completion college courses for high school students
• Graduate 3 Site based 6 Blended 12 Online (fully) 4 Certificates
• Continuing & Professional Education Over 70 courses offered (90% online)
• Summer 09 – 11k enrollment w/ over $5million to Colleges
• Growth in Online; nearly = to on-campus
• Over 400 courses online Summer 09; Enrollment in “Online & Both” = 49% - up from 41% in 07
• SREC courses allow Non-Residents to enroll at Resident tuition
• Invested $120k in grants for on-campus programming
Vision
WVU Online
Virtual School
Collegiate
Undergraduate
Graduate
Lifelong Learning
• Start with STEM – physics, math, engineering
• Build WVU Charter School ~
• Currently hiring a Director/ grant writer
• Virtual Schools on the Rise (video)
Enrollment in online courses in high schools is still relatively small (it reached the one million mark in 2007), but it is growing even faster than enrollment in college online courses.