Benefited their students, online courses and their benefits to nontraditional students such as members of the military. Thank you for attending the summit on innovation in education and thanks to all of you who will present this morning. Were excited and grateful to have so much knowledge and ek per tease in one room, and i know were eager to hear from all of you. Before we begin, i want to say a quick word about innovation, about the focus on innovation. This year, i embarked on our rethink school tour where we visited learning environments and institutions that are taking creative approaches to education for students of all ages. I continue to travel country to see the great work thats being done and ive been inspired by the educators and administrators ive met thus far, but theres still not enough. We need more like them and like you. The reality is that there are a number of challenges and opportunities facing Higher Education, and washington, d. C. , does not have all the answers. Government is not the best at finding new solutions to tough problems. Government isnt the best thing isnt the best at being flexible or adaptable to a constantly changing environment. And government certainly isnt the best at questioning the status quo. But government can be good at bringing people together to highlight their creative thinking and new approaches. So today weve brought education leaders and entrepreneurs from across the country to share how they are improving education for the students they serve. While you represent a Diverse Group of institutions and organizations from across the Higher Education sector, the common denominator is that each of you began by seeing a problem or a deficiency or an inefficiency. You questioned why it was that way and then you developed a solution to fix it or make it better. Its that type of thinking that we need more of in American Education today. We need to question everything, to look for ways in which we can improve, and embrace the imperative of change. Youve embraced that mindset and your students are reaping the rewards, because at the end of the day, success shouldnt be measured by how much ivy is on the wall. It should be determined by how youre educating and preparing students for todays and tomorrows challenges. So lets treat today as an opportunity to share what is working from your respective worlds and where the impediments at any level of government are preventing you from achieving your mission of serving students. Thank you again for being here today, and i am really looking forward to todays discussion. Thank you, madam secretary. Were excited to get under way. Well call up the first group as you see on your agenda, it is beyond seat time. Our first speaker, forgive me if i get your name incorrectly, jeff maggione callda. Well have the presenters do their presentation. Well then join at the table and the secretary will lead us in a short discussion. Thank you so much. Good morning. Thank you to secretary devos and the department of education for convening this group and giving us a chance to talk about what the future of Higher Education might look like. Im the crowe kro of corcera. Ive only been in the job for six months, but it is a remarkable company i think with a remarkable purpose. We were started in 2012 by two professors at stanford who teach Computer Science, and thiey got the idea that there would be an additional interest in learning Computer Science around the world so, they put their course on the interin the and over 100,000 people came to take the course, and thousand thought the they thought theres an opportunity here. We now have 30 million learners from arnold the world who have registered to take courses. About 6. 5 million are from the United States, about 2. 5 million from india, 2 million from china, 1. 5 million from mexico. Those are our four largest countries. And theyre taking courses on Machine Learning, on bitcoin, on english, on career development, on financial markets, on python for everyone, and many, many other courses. Weve teamed up with 150 universities who have published 2,400 courses s ranging from anthropology to accounting to philosophy. We have recently launched four degrees. One of our partners is the university of illinois. They are fully accredited masters degrees and they are delivered to a global audience at a fraction of the cost at what a traditional masters degree would cost. I was at the university of illinois recently talking to students and professors who teach and i do believe this is a glimpse of what the future of Higher Education looks like. We have professors who have been teaching for 40 years who are on twoway video teaching classes of 500 students around the world in real time, facetoface. When i say facetoface, they see each others faces through the video conferencing. Theyre all networked together and chat communities. The whole class, study groups, the teachers and t. A. S and theyre having live sessions on a global basis. The study groups talk about these problems as they relate to all the Different Countries around the world. In addition to the 150 University Partners, we also have 18 Industry Partners. These are companies who are publishing content and courses on corsera, especially on topics that are business oriented. Some include google, pwc, ibm, and cisco. Recently in the last year, corsera has been offering corsera to enterprises because fundamentally the need for Higher Education is driven by a change in the world that is happening at an accelerating rate, through globalization, through technology, new jobs requiring new skills, and many jobs are going to be replaced by software in robotics. And so theres a whole new class of skills that will be required in enterprises. So companies are hiring corsera to put these types of courses and these types of competencies in the hands of everyday workers. Honeywell is one of our 25 of the fortune 500 companies who hired corsera. At t is another one of these companies. And theyre basically offering corsera to upscale their employees. We also are working with governments including singapore and the philippines to retrain their workforce, especially in topics like data science, technology, and business. And whats really fascinating is to see how these businesses who are hiring corsera are working with University Partners to deliver entirely new learning experiences and even entirely new credentials. So google, for example, as created a certification called the google Cloud Developer chx tea which teaches people how to develop software in the cloud. Recently we announced with google the google i. T. Certification. This is a Program Designed for people who do not have a College Degree but who would like to get into the field of i. T. And technology and delivered entirely online and qualify people for Technology Jobs who dont have technology backgrounds. We also have a company in Silicon Valley mixing together content in variable ways. They have taken a Machine Learning class from one of our University Partners. They have coupled with that from a deep learning organization with Industry Partners and offering content themselves as a business. And theyre putting all this content together so from universities to their own custom courses theyre putting together curricula for their employees, and theyre creating new credentials within their corporate workspace so when employees complete these courses they get credentials and recognized for competencies theyve delivered. Im very interested in what everyone has to say. Its a pleasure. I think what were looking at in the future of higher j case is extremely exciting. Thank you. Good morning. It is really exciting to be here and join this many innovators and transformation folks in one room. Im delighted to talk about Digital Education transformation and how alexa is going about it. But before we do that, id like you to sort of put your minds, you know, just calm down, go into a yogic pose, and just think about 2030. Im going to ask you a simple question. What fraction of todays jobs do you think will be around in 2030 because of automation and technology and a. I. . Just yell out the answer. A third, a half . According to the International Education commission, 50 of todays jobs will be gone by 2030. Half. Each time you shake hands with somebody, remember by 20 to 30 one of those hands will not be there. 50 of jobs will go away because of these new technologies. What that means for education institutions or universities or other institutions is that we have a planetscaled reskilling challenge on our hands. This is not just an educate a few people. Its going to be planet scale. Half of todays jobs gone all around the world. And this is not just the one challenge facing universities. The question is can universities claim that space. And the way universities are structured, students coming the age of 18 study for four years and then they go away. Theres no concept at universities of lifelong education. And to me this sounds very much like, you know, close to pentagon here, like missiles, you know, fire and forget. But we need to move to a new model of education where universities can work with learners throughout their careers and not just the first four years. There are many other challenges facing the Education System. One is the costs. Second is theres not been a lot of innovation in the education space in tens, maybe hundreds of years. And so we were founded in late 2011 by a har var m. I. Harvard m. Our thinking is how do we work with University Partners and corporations, governments and other nonprofits, to really rethink education as a system, because its not just about us, its rethink education as system. Today we are based in massachusetts in the technology hub, and we really think like a startup even though we are a nonprofit. We have 14 Million Students from 196 countries. Over 2,000 courses being offered by 130 Institutional Partners like oxford, m. I. T. , harvard, georgetown, berkeley, columbia, penn, the list goes on and on. And a lot of corporations like microsoft and systems like Linux Foundation and others. We have 50 million courts ses enrolled in our roughly six years in existence and weve also moved into creditbearing programs where the courses are converting to credit. Talk about that. Maybe some of our colleagues here will talk about it too. Edx is a nonprofit, so our content is available for free. Learns can co learners are come and learn for free. Its completely free. Not just the videos but videos, exercises are all free, and pretty much the only the provider left today that offers all its content for free. Weve also made a platform available for free as open source. What does this mean . This means just imagine if google were to say im going the take our search algorithm and Search Software and put it out there so anybody can use it for whatever they want to do. That will be done. Give the software to anyone who wants it. And its incredible. There are 14 million learners on edx. At least 14 million we know of on open platforms. 800 open edx instances around the world today including option by entire countries. For example, some of the countries here, ministries of education launching national infrastructures, countries like china, france, russia, hong kong, how cool is that . How cool is russia adopt an opensource platform created by the u. S. For educating their people . Companies like mckenzie for education and also universities, stanfords Online Platform is also based on open edx. So, you know, part of this meeting is to think about innovation and the future of higher ed, and id like to, you know, think ahead to five, ten years, and i want to predict that education is going to look like this and then tell you what we are doing about it. The trends in education are that education in five to ten years will become modular, will become omni channel, and will become lifelong. Im saying it will become because we are going to make it so. Its not going to happen by itself. We are going to make it happen. Why is modular a good idea . Modular is good because it can create new efficiencies and new scaling and unbundling of components that can create much better efficiencies. Just imagine phones in 1982, the boxy beige at t phone that now gets converted to this where the whole telecommunication industry got unbundled. What are we doing about it . We launched a new credential along with our University Partners called the micro masters. Theyre about 25 of a masters degree. You can learn completely online and you can learn for free, complete i for fre completely free. If you want accreditation, its about a thousand bucks. So m. I. T. Is here. They launch a supply chain micromasters. If you complete, you get admission to m. I. T. , you can complete the 60,000 masters degree at m. I. T. Many half the time, in one semester, at half the price. Similarly, we have micromasters in robotics from xpenn and a. I. From columbia. We have 45 micromasters all a learning for free, all offering a pathway to credit and enabling you to do clever things. Once things are modular, you get all sorts of novel things happening. You can stack them up. Weve launched a fully stacked online masters degree with georgia tech. The campus degree costs 40,000 bucks in Data Analytics. Data science is big. Once you make things modular, you can board things together like legos. So theres a datamasters from georgia tech for 1,500 bucks, and you can add more courses if you like and complete a full online masters from a top ten ranked university for 9,900. Its a very novel stack masters degree. You can share. A number of universities are now sharing the micromasters. As an example, in pakistan, the University Uses the micromasters and data science from ucsd, san diego, as a component of the masters degree, and some courses from a cs degree, bolted on this modular lego component and now they offer a data science degree. And it is happening in the u. S. R. I. T. Is accepting credit from m. I. T. For supply chain. Many universities are doing this le legolike sharing and we hope to continue expanding on that. At the end of the day, its about learners and what benefit theyre getting from it. Heres one simple story of a student in cambridge, she had a job, a micromasters in the supply change, put that on a linkedin profile, got a job and doubled their income. Just one example of a learners story that benefitted from Something Like this. Corporates are byebuying into. Charmie baker, massachusetts govern governor, a month ago announce alleged partnership with ge. They would guarantee an interview to any candidate out of massachusetts that completed a micromast erers in a. I. Colum or supply chain from m. I. T. Or cybersecurity from re getting corporates involved. Once we make education more modular, universities begin to offer not just inperson courses but efficient online courses as well. We can move into Lifelong Learning where you can take these courses throughout life. Heres the kind of things we can expect if we do it right. One example. Why not create new nmodular programs like micromasters . Do the same modernization of the bachelors degree. Weve launched Global Freshman Academy at asu that is a precursor to the micromasters. Another example. Imagine if the government could recognize micromasters for Financial Aid. Wouldnt that be cool . Employers are already recognizing it for jobs. Imagine if we could create a universal Credit Exchange with a micromasters and people could share and stack up and create new degrees. And just imagine, if every campus said, hey, look, im going to allow my students to take 20 to 50 of credit from somebody else. You could halve the cost of education in a short amount of time. And this is already happening. Georgia tech and m. I. T. Are already allowing their students so far its one course at m. I. T. , one course a number of students took completely online for credit on campus. We can do a number of things and think about reimagining education once we make things modular, omni channel, and lifelong. Thank you. Hello. My name is ben nelson. I wanted to take a little bit of a different perspective, which minerva, which anybody who knows about us, is always different. I want to go back and think about what is the purpose of Higher Education . Because oftentimes i think when we talk about technology in education, we really just focus on the how. Take the same product, the same degrees, the same courses, stack them differently, then let more people have them, maybe cheaper, maybe more effective, but effectively without really going back and thinking about what the Core Educational offering is. Now, the reason that its particularly important for us to think about how, especially when were gathered here in washington, d. C. , is that our Founding Fathers spent quite a bit of time thinking about what University Education should be all about. In fact, specifically in the context of how to ensure a representative republic, which we are, is supposed to function. They constructed an idea around a liberal arts education, an education that educates the citizenship broadly such that when individuals will be called upon to govern rather than being born into the ability to govern, like in a monarchy, that