Transcripts For CSPAN3 Higher Education Innovation Summit Pa

CSPAN3 Higher Education Innovation Summit Part 1 January 26, 2018

Thanks so much, kathleen, and welcome, everyone. Its great to see you all this morning. Thank you for attending todays first of two summits on innovation in education. And a special thanks to all of you who are going to present this morning. Were excited and grateful to have so much knowledge and expertise in one room, and i know were eager to hear from all of you. I want to say a quick word about the focus on innovation. This year, i embarked on a rethink school tour where we visited learning environments and institution that are taking creative approaches to education for students of all ages. I continue to travel the country to see the great work thats being done, and ive been inspired by the innovative 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 at being 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 so were going to call up the first group as you see on your agenda. It is beyond seat time. Our first speaker and forgive me if i get your name incorrectly, jeff from cor se sera, followed edx. Well have the presenters do their presentation and then the secretary will lead us in a short presentation. Thank you so much. Good morning. Thank you to secretary devos and the department of education for giving us a chance to convene this group. My name is jeff maggioncalda. Im the ceo of coursera and ive only been in the job for six months but it is a remarkable company,s i thi company, i think with a remarkable purpose. Coursera was started in 2012 at stanford. They got the idea that maybe there would be additional interest in learning Computer Science from around the world, so they put their course on the internet and over 100,000 people came to take the course and they thought, wow, theres a real opportunity here. In the last five years, coursera has grown dramatically. We now have 30 million learners from around the world who have registered to take courses on coursera. About 6. 5 million are from the United States. About 2. 5 million are 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 for 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 on coursera, ranging from anthropology to accounting to philosophy. We also have recently launched four degrees. One of our partners is the university of illinois. These are fully accredited masters degrees, and they are delivered to a global audience at a fraction of the price of what a traditional masters degree would cost. The diploma actually comes from the university of illinois. It is identical to an mba that you would get if you were on campus. I was at the university of illinois recently and i was talking to students and professors who teach, and i do believe that this is a glimpse of what the future of Higher Education looks like. We have professors who have been teaching f teaching for 40 years who are on multitwoway video teaching classes of 500 students around the world in realtime, face to face when i say face to face, i mean they see each others faces through the video conferencing. Theyre all networked together in chat communities. The whole class, study groups, the teachers and tas and theyre having live sessions on a global basis. The study groups, when they break out, think 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 coursera, especially on topics that are very businessoriented. Some of these Industry Partners include google, pwc, ibm, and sisco. Recently in the last year, coursera has begun offering coursera to enterprises. Because fundamentally, the need for a better Higher Education is being driven by a change in the world that is happening at an accelerating rate, through globalization, through technology, new jobs are requiring new skills, and many jobs are going to be replaced by software and robotics, and so theres a whole new class of skills that will be required in enterprises, and so companies are hiring coursera 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 have hired coursera. At t is another one of these companies and theyre basically offering coursera to upskill 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 coursera are working with University Partners to deliver entirely new learning experiences and even entirely new credentials. So, google, for example, has created a certification called the google cloud developer, which teaches people how to actually develop software in the cloud. Recently, we announced, with google, the google i. T. Certification. This is a program thats designed for people who do not have a College Degree but would like to get into the field of i. T. And technology. And that will be delivered entirely online and qualify people to have Technology Jobs who dont have technology backgrounds. We also have a company in silicon valley, a technology company, who is mixing together content in very novel ways. So they have taken a Machine Learning class from one of our University Partners, they have coupled that with a deep learning specialization from one of our Industry Partners, and they are actually authoring content themselves as a business. And theyre putting all this content together so that from universities to Industry Partners to their own Custom Software courses, theyre putting together curricula for their employees and theyre creating new credentials within their corporate work space so that when employees complete these courses, they get credentialed and recognized for the competencies that theyve delivered. So were very excited to be here. Im very interested to hear what everyone has to say and i hope that coursera can participate. Its a pleasure and i think that what were looking at in the future of Higher Education 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. So im delighted to talk about Digital Education transformation. And how ed x 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 yogic pose and think about 2030. No thoughts. 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 ai . Just yell out the answer. Half. A third. A half. So, according to the International Education commission, 50 of todays jobs will be gone by 2030. Half. So each time you shake hands with somebody, remember that by 2030, one of those hands will not be there. 50 jobs will go away because of these new technologies. What that means for education institutions, whether universities or other institutions, is that we have a planetscale reskilling challenge on our hands. This is not just educate a few people. Its going to be planetscale. Half of todays jobs, gone. All around the world. And this is not just the one challenge facing universities. The question is, can universities play in that space and the way universities are structured, students come in age of 18, study for 4 years and 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, fire and forget. In the age of 18. But we need to move to a completely new model of education where universities and Education Systems can work with learners throughout their careers and not just the first four years. The many other challenges facing the Education System. One is the costs are crazy. Second is that theres not been a lot of innovation in the education space in tens, maybe hundreds of years, and so edx was founded about in late 2011, founded by harvard and mit, we are a nonprofit. The basic mission of edx is to reimagine education. Okay, we are a nonprofit. And our thinking is, how do we work with University Partners and corporations, governments and other nonprofits to really rethink education as a system . Its not just about us. Its rethink education as a system. Today, we are based in Kendall Square 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, mit, 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 courses enrolled in so far in our roughly of yea roughly 6 years in existence and weve also moved into creditbearing programs where the courses on edx convert into credit and ill talk about that, maybe some of our colleagues from asu will talk about it too, like Global Freshman Academy. K edx is a nonprofit and nonprofits give things away for free. The learners can come and learn for free. Today, virtually all courses on edx are free. There are massive online open courses. You can go up there and simply learn for free. Its completely free. Not just the videos but videos, exercises are all free, and we are pretty much the only mooc provider left today that offers all its content for free. We also made a platform available for free as open source. What does that mean . It means, just imagine if google were to say, im going to put our search algorithm out there so anybody can use it. Thats what weve done. Weve given away our software to anyone that wants it as open edx and its been incredible. In addition to the 14 million learners on edx, theres at least 14 million learners that we know of on open edx platforms. Theres over 800 open edx instances around the world today, including an options by entire countries. So, for example, you just see some of the countries here. Ministries of education in these countries have launched national infrastructures, countries like china, france, russia, hong kong, i mean, how cool is that . How cool is having russia adopt an open source platform created by the u. S. For educating their people. Companies have adopted edx. Like mckenzie and also universities, stanfords Online Platform is also based on open edx. So, you know, part of the meeting here 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 ill 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 omnichannel, 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 skilling 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 when the whole telecommunication industry got unbundled. So what are we doing about it . Weve launched a new credential along with our University Partners called the micromasters. The micromasters is about 25 of a masters degree. You can learn completely online and you can learn for free. You can do it completely for free. If you want the credential, its about 1,000. And if you get admission into the university, it offers a pathway to credit and accelerates your masters program. So, mit is here. Mit launched a supply chain micromasters on edx. If you complete the masters, you get admission to mit, you can complete the 60,000 masters degree at mit in half the time in one semester at half the price. The list goes on and on. We have 45 micromasters, all that you can learn for free, all offering a pathway to credit. And enabling you to do clever things. Once things are modular, you can get all kinds 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 in Data Analytics. Data sciences. Once you make things modular, you can bolt things together like legos so theres a Data Analytics micromasters from georgia tech for 1,500 and you can add more course s if you lie a complete an online masters for 9,900. Its a very novel stack mastest degree and were launching a whole lot more. A lot of universities are now sharing the micromasters. In pakistan, the i. T. University uses the micromasters in data science from ucsd, san diego, as a component of their masters degree and theyve taken a cs 70 of courses from a cs degree, bolted on this modular component called a micromasters and now they offer a data science degree and the sharing is happening in the u. S. Rit is accepting credit from mit for supply chain. Many other universities are doing this legolike sharing and we hope to keep expanding on that. At the end of the day, its about learners and what benefit theyre getting from it. So heres just one simple story of a student in cambridge. She had a job. She did the micromasters in supply chain, put that on a linked in profile, got interviewed and got a job and doubled her income. Just one example of a learners story that benefitted from Something Like this. Corporates are buying into this. Charlie baker, massachusetts governor, a month ago announced that through partnership with ge, ge would guarantee an interview to any candidate out of massachusetts that completed a micromasters in Cloud Computing from umuc, whos here, on edx, or a micromasters in ai from columbia or supply chain from mit or Cyber Security from rit. They guaranteed an interview. Were getting more corporates involved. So once we make education imagi modular, omnichannel, in that universities begin to offer not just inperson courses but efficient online courses as well, we can move into Lifelong Learning where learners can take these courses throughout life. Here are some examples of the kind of radical things we can except in five to ten years from universi universities if we do it right. Why not create new modular programs like micromasters. We will launch microbachelors within the next year or two. Weve already launched Global Freshman Academy with asu. Thats a precursor to the microbachelors. 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 where the micromasters and microbachelors got recognized for each other and people could stack um ap and get new degrees. Imagine if a campus said im going to allow my stujdents to take 20 to 50 of credit somewhere else. Georgia tech and mit are already allowing their students, so far, one course at mit, one course, a number of students took completely online. For credit on campus. So we could do a number of these things and really think about reimagining education once we make things modular, omnichannel, and lifelong. Thank you. Lifelong. Thank you. Hello.

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