The Future of Engineering Education

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The Future of Engineering Education Bricks and
Mortar vs On-Line
Dr. Andy DiPaolo Senior Associate Dean,School of
Engineering Executive Director, SCPD
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What Do Online Learners in Engineering Want,
Need, and Expect?
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Online Learners Want

• Access to learning independent of time and
  distance.
• Convenience and flexibility with a range of
  course and program delivery options and multiple
  avenues for learning.
• A choice of synchronous, asynchronous, and
  blended delivery options.

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Online Learners Want

• Well-designed, engaging, intellectually
  challenging and continuously updated courses.
• A wide range of online degree, certification and
  credentialing options.
• Rolling admissions allowing for accelerated and
  compressed learning.

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Online Learners Want

• Emphasis on active, goal-oriented, scenario-based
  learning using real, vivid and familiar examples.
  
• Presentations and interactions incorporating
  problem-based simulations and gaming.

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Online Learners Want

• Learner-pull vs. teacher-push approaches with
  learning on demand.
• Modules and courselets which can be bundled into
  a learning experience to meet the goals of the
  organization, the workgroup, and the individuals
  career.

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Online Learners Want

• Reliable delivery to any internet platform with
  consistent navigation and 24/7 technical support.
• Provisions for tele-advising, tele-coaching and
  tele-mentoring.

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Online Learners Want

• Participation in a learning community through
  engagement with instructor, teaching assistants,
  tutors, peers and experts.
• To customize the learning experience based on
  personal background and assessment of knowledge
  gaps.

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Online Learners Want

• To sample courses and review evaluations before
  registering.
• Access to multimedia learning materials, content
  collections, libraries, electronic tools and
  lots of video.
• To collaborate by working in geographically
  dispersed learning teams.

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Online Learners Want

• Outstanding e-support for student services with a
  focus on student as customer.
• Provision for course extension and ongoing access
  to faculty and experts.
• Continuous, rich, prompt, and varied forms of
  feedback.

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Online Learners Want

• Competitive pricing with a mix of fixed price and
  pay-per-view options.
• Return-on-investment.
• Life-long educational renewal with institutional
  commitment to support continuous learning of its
  graduates.

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Motorola no longer wants to hire engineers with
a four-year degree. Instead, we want our
employees to have a 40-year degree.

• Christopher Galvin
• President and CEO of Motorola

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Stanford Center for Professional Development

• SCPD, in collaboration with Stanford faculty and
  industry experts,develops and delivers academic
  and professional education programs on video,
  online, on campus and on-site to meet the
  career-long education needs of technical
  professionals and managers.

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SCPD Programs for Industry

• Masters Degree - Honors Cooperative Program
• Credit courses - Non-Degree Option
• Academic Certificate Programs
• Audit

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SCPD Programs for Industry

• Professional and executive education
• Course licensing
• Research seminars
• Custom programs

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SCPD Delivery

• Videotape
• Multimedia
• Online
• On-site

• Five TV channels
• Satellite
• Two-way video
• On-campus
• Combinations and blends
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• Stanford Instructional TV Network
• Stanford Online

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Stanford Online Vision

• To make Stanfords rich intellectual content and
  robust educational offerings accessible and
  convenient to todays professional workforce.

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Stanford Online

• Pioneered at Stanford, became recognized model
• Early support from Sloan, Compaq and Microsoft

• SCPD televises 75 courses per quarter and nearly
  all converted into Stanford Online.

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Stanford Online

• Over 800 online courses since 1997.
• Courses updated quarterly to maintain currency.
• Approach transparent to faculty.
• Delivers academic and professional education
  programs.

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SCPD Annual Online Learning Delivered to Industry

• 250 credit courses leading to MS degrees and
  academic certificates.
• 40 research seminars.
• 50 professional education courses.
• 10,000 new program hours in digital form.

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Summary Observations

• Online learning attracts professionals who would
  not otherwise have taken courses.
• Convenience and choice is critical for busy
  professionals.

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Summary Observations

• Best for motivated, disciplined,
  self-directed, mature students.
• Overall, distance students report a very
  positive experience.
• Significant benefit for campus students.

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Summary Observations

• Faculty concerned with increased demands and
  impact on workload.
• Repeat of class builds faculty confidence,
  effectiveness and efficiency.
• Delivery technology almost ready for broad
  application.

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Stanford Online Directions

• Extend the virtual classroom and develop student
  community.
• Develop courselets, interdisciplinary certificate
  programs, and reusable, sharable courseware.
• Expand Stanford Online capacity and capabilities

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The Promise and Peril of Online Education What
Does the Future Hold?
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The Future

• Its here! Online education has been
  successfully implemented- with mixed elements of
  hype and reality- and its continued evolution is
  irreversible.

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The Future

• Online education - as the intersection of
  learning activities, learning resources and
  enterprise systems - recognized as an
  essential function of universities and
  budgeted and organized to meet the needs and
  lifestyles of students.

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The Future

• Minimal distinction between on-site and
  off-site students through networked learning
  communities.
• Focus of online education shifts from teaching
  to learning with students having more control.

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The Future

• Educational organizations not rooted in time and
  place. Learning accessible from anywhere and
  available at all times via personal, portable,
  unified appliances. The future is M-learning!

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The Future

• Continuum of online education from high school...
  
• to undergrad programs to graduate programs
• to professional education
• to life-long enrichment
• ...creating an online educational portfolio.

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The Future

• Market shakeout continues with accelerated
  development of alliances between higher
  education, professional organizations,
  publishers, libraries, museums, industry and
  new dot.coms for online program development and
  distribution.

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The Future

• More competition at a national level and
  geographic monopolies on educational delivery
  will diminish.
• The student as consumer will establish program
  value.
• Strong movement in outsourcing to application
  service providers (ASPs).

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The Future

• Evolution of non-traditional degree,
  certification and career professional
  universities characterized by
• - Assessment engines.
• - Personalized curriculum maps.
• - Knowledge/skill modules.
• - Variable pacing.

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The Future
- Short residencies. - Distributed cohort
groups. - Competency certification. -
Intelligent tutoring using natural language
communication.
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The Future
- Prescriptive guidance and dynamically
assembled content based on learner profile
and preference specifications. - Adaptive
learning technologies with prediction of
future education needs. - Rich set of
community activities.
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The Future

• Emphasis on experiential, non-linear,
  goal-oriented, scenario-based learning with
  immersion learningware, 3D and virtual
  environments.
• Unbundling of the design, development, delivery
  and management of teaching becomes a common
  practice.

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The Future

• Accelerated development in the creation of
  reusable, sharable and platform-independent
  courseware and content.
• Independent producers sell courses and award
  credits to the end-user - bypassing traditional
  institutions.

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The Future

• Faculty members become increasingly
  independent of colleges and universities in
  the delivery of online education.
• Programs offered over an entire career evolve
  as a means to create institutional loyalty and
  leverage new relationships.

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• Presentation Slides
• http//scpd.stanford.edu
• Click About SCPD
• Slides on right side

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For additional information

• Andy DiPaolo
• adp_at_stanford.edu
• [phone]
• Stanford Center for Professional
  Development
• http//scpd.stanford.edu

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The Future of Engineering Education Bricks and
Mortar vs On-Line
Dr. Andy DiPaolo Senior Associate Dean, School of
Engineering Executive Director, SCPD
Dr. Andy DiPaolo Executive Director, SCPD