Online Graduate Education

Group 4: Alicia Kehn, Rebecca Marcum, Nicole Fearnbach, Greg Mason, Jana Clinton

Traditional Education vs Online Education"For-profit educational services, capitalizing off of instructional training. Bankrolling tutelage on a gravy train. Go ahead and sneer; cringe and shudder-get it out of your system. Oh the horror, running a profitable business that includes many of the facets of a traditional higher education." -Quote from Swanson in Featherstone, 2007

- Traditional schools = brick-and-mortar institutions that offer classes face-to-face- “Growing by Degrees” (2005): 65% traditional universities offer graduate courses online- Today: 70% traditional schools say that of their enrollment comes from online classes⅓- What is the perception of online education from online graduate students?

- motivation?: 81% said financial, 80% said flexibility, 74% said ability to complete work at home- demanding?: 77% said “much more” or “slightly more” demanding than traditional courses

- recommend online education?: 77% said yes, 9% said no, 14% neutral

Advantages● Helps

○ Working adults ○ Military○ Graduate students can gain brand

recognition, without re-location● Convenient and flexible

Disadvantages● Only benefits the self-directed learner● Cost (to the student)● Quality of Faculty● No guidance/mentoring

○ increased interaction?■ with instructors: 77% said no■ with peers: 72% said no

Online Graduate Program Offerings

By level of degree:1. Masters 6,150

(69.5%)2. Certificate 1,876 (21.2%)3. Doctorate 827 (9.3%)

The Top 5 Online M.Ed. Programs(from US News & World Report)1. Northern Illinois University2. Indiana University - Bloomington3. Central Michigan University University of Houston5. St. John’s University

Based on scores for• Student engagement (35%)• Student services and technology (20%)• Faculty credentials and training (15%)• Admissions selectivity (15%)• Peer reputation (15%)

Supporting “Disruptive Change” - Institutional Policies for Instructional Faculty in Graduate-Level Online Environments

Q1: What incentives exist for faculty to engage in teaching online?

A1: Faculty paid extra (82%) Considered part of regular teaching load (82%) Department gets share of revenue (63%) Release Time to develop online courses (41%)

Q2: How else is this engagement supported?

A2: Training/Development Workshops (94%) Instructional Designer Assistance (84%) Conference Funding (63%) Software and/or equipment upgrades (54%)

Q3: How are intellectual property rights treated?

A3: Campus-wide policy on I.P. (71%) In these cases: Joint Ownership (41%) Institutional Ownership (36%) Faculty Ownership (10%) (13% reported ‘Other’ arrangement)

***Full-time faculty rated online coursework as less important to the institution than top/senior administrators did...why?

Hoyt, J. E. & Oviatt, D. (2013)

The Role of MOOCs in Graduate Education“Higher education is in a ‘period of great experimentation’ in the field of online learning” - Stanford President John Hennessy said at

the How Technology Impacts the Pedagogy and Economics of Residential Higher Education summit

“Colleges and universities will be taking a more scientific approach to online learning than in the past, relying on their schools of education to measure student learning and to provide feedback.”

”Massive open online courses (MOOCs) – as well as video conferencing – present a great opportunity to provide something of real value in professional education and to generate enough income to cover their cost” - Hennessy

”Stanford fosters collaboration with other universities by sharing course material, data-driven research... It also makes courses available to lifelong learners everywhere through Stanford Online.”

”What's fascinating to me is that over the past year," since MOOCs began being taught, "I've had more conversations with colleagues here about teaching than during the previous nine years." - Scott Klemmer, Stanford Assoc. Professor of Comp. Sci.

Renata S. Engel, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor in Penn State’s College of Engineering, will assume the role of associate vice provost for Online Programs, effective June 1, 2014

”Engel will help advance new online undergraduate and graduate offerings, including non-credit programs and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), to students across the country and around the world.”

”Among the considerations discussed were the ongoing accreditation of MOOCs, their integration into formal degree courses, how this challenges the original ideal of widening access through free courses, and how MOOC methods will impact on pedagogy.” - Senate House, University of London

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