Online Learning: Context
Ray Schroeder
UIS AVC for Online
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First: A word about presentation format. For the past dozen years, we have been "power-point-less" at the UIS Center for Online Learning, Research and Service. Rather than using a static, aging format, we prefer to create Web pages for our presentations to assure that they are easily accessible, updatable, and always available. Please follow along on your own device (or visit at a later date) to delve more deeply into the links and videos that interest you.
First: A word about presentation format. For the past dozen years, we have been "power-point-less" at the UIS Center for Online Learning, Research and Service. Rather than using a static, aging format, we prefer to create Web pages for our presentations to assure that they are easily accessible, updatable, and always available. Please follow along on your own device (or visit at a later date) to delve more deeply into the links and videos that interest you.
Setting Context
Setting Context
College enrollment declines - every term for last decade https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/11/12/enrollment-declines-continue-national-student-clearinghouse-finds
https://www.highereddive.com/news/7-charts-that-give-a-snapshot-of-college-enrollment-this-fall/588276/
While overall higher ed enrollments have steadily declined over the past decade, a subset of higher enrollments have steadily climbed. - online learning. The top 14 trends in online learning observed by US News last month (note UIS is linked in the article and cited several times): https://www.usnews.com/higher-education/online-education/slideshows/discover-10-current-trends-in-online-education
Skills and abilities sought by employers via NACE - are we assuring our students gain these: https://www.naceweb.org/talent-acquisition/candidate-selection/key-attributes-employers-want-to-see-on-students-resumes/
Moody's latest outlook for universities https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-Outlook-for-US-higher-education-sector-remains-negative-in--PBM_1255981
Demographic cliff coming by mid decade, Midwest to be hit hardest: https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/01/08/new-book-argues-most-colleges-are-about-face-significant-decline
4IR - Fourth Industrial Revolution utilizing Artificial Intelligence is beginning to erode white collar jobs - where will employess reskill and upskill - online: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/27/high-paid-well-educated-white-collar-jobs-heavily-affected-by-ai-new-report.html
Average tenure with an employer among American workers is now just over 4 years before changing employers and jobs - learners will return again and again online for new skills and knowledge: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.nr0.htm
Good, updated reference data site on Online Education https://educationdata.org/online-education-statistics
Just Published:
Time for Reinvention, Not Just Replication or Revision by Ray Schroeder 2/18/21
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/online-trending-now/time-reinvention-not-just-replication-or-revision
Do you remember these ... Where have they gone?
Do you remember these ... Where have they gone?
(Is the small/medium college campus next?)
(Is the small/medium college campus next?)
Higher education resisted the digital disruption of the web for a long time. We were able to use it for our benefit without major erosion of base. Inevitably, it has caught up with us; preceding us were such information, social and service-centric areas as:
Encyclopedias
Almanacs
Local newspapers - Since 2004, about 1,800 newspapers have closed
Great magazines Life, Time, Saturday Evening Post, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_American_magazines
Video rental stores - In 2017, it was reported that about 86% of 15,300 video stores that were open in the US in 2007 were closed, bringing the number down to about 2,140 remaining stores
Record stores - more than 4,000 have closed http://www.vinylives.com/faq.html
Record albums vinyl or CD - sales of CDs have dropped by 95% since 2000 https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Recording%20Industry,album%20topped%20the%20Billboard%20charts.
Local news stand - became Google News
Local and chain bookstores - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/technology/bookstores-final-shakeout.html
Local clothing stores - and, not just clothing stores, so many brick and mortar stores https://moneywise.com/a/chains-closing-the-most-stores-in-2020
Libraries - fewer, smaller and more visits online than in person http://ijiset.com/vol2/v2s4/IJISET_V2_I4_74.pdf
And, whatever happened to that local college? Unity College considers closing campus entirely https://campustechnology.com/articles/2021/01/26/small-maine-college-asks-do-we-need-a-main-campus.aspx
Local colleges - MacMurray and hundreds of others - lost to the ages - lost to cyber delivery competition - this list is updated regularly with new closures and mergers https://www.highereddive.com/news/how-many-colleges-and-universities-have-closed-since-2016/539379/
Pennsylvania state colleges in the PASSHE system are preparing to merge https://www.inquirer.com/education/state-system-universities-merger-integrationsports-20210204.html
Recession Reality in Higher Education
Recession Reality in Higher Education
I have published, for the past dozen years, a chronicle of the impact of societal changes in higher education. This daily chronicle now has more than 12,000 entries. Note that many in our field regularly view this blog to see how peer institutions are affected:
https://recessionreality.blogspot.com/
UIS began online learning in 1997 with funding received by the system office from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
UIS began online learning in 1997 with funding received by the system office from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
We are a recognized leader in online learning nationally. Many awards and honors recognize our leadership and excellence. https://www.uis.edu/colrs/about/history/excellence/
University of Illinois Springfield Rankings - January 2021 US News
The University of Illinois Springfield is ranked No. 34 out of 337 in Best Online Bachelor's Programs. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence.
OPEL is Leading Our Online Delivery
OPEL is Leading Our Online Delivery
The experienced, skilled and most helpful staff of Online, Professional and Engaged Learning under the leadership of Dr. Vickie Cook at UIS keeps us at the forefront of online.
How can you keep up with the daily developments and trends?
How can you keep up with the daily developments and trends?
Ray's Daily Curated Reading Lists and Social Media. Blogs with daily updates on the field of online / continuing learning in higher education are read by tens of thousands in our field every week.
UPCEA Professional, Continuing and Online Education Update (more than one million views) http://continuingedupdate.blogspot.com/
Recession Reality in Higher Education is rated #54 among higher ed blogs http://recessionreality.blogspot.com/
UIS OER Blog https://uisoerblog.blogspot.com/
Online Learning Update is among the longest-running, top rated blogs in elearning http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayschroeder with daily postings
https://twitter.com/rayschroeder with daily postings
Contact Ray
Contact Ray
rschr1@uis.edu ~ rayschroeder@gmail.com - ray@upcea.edu
Associate Vice Chancellor for Online, Professor Emeritus
University of Illinois Springfield
Senior Fellow, University Professional and Continuing Education Assn.
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