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Higher Education and the S&T Job Market

Katy Börner

Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering & Information ScienceDirector, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center

School of Informatics, Computing, and EngineeringIndiana University, USA

NAS Sackler Colloquium on Modeling and Visualizing Science and Technology DevelopmentsArnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, California

December 4, 2017

Olivier H. Beauchesne, 2011. Map of Scientific Collaborations from 2005-2009.

Science&Technologyvs.Education/Trainingvs.Jobs

Needtostudythe (mis)matchandtemporaldynamicsofS&Tprogress,educationandworkforcedevelopmentoptions,andjobrequirements.

Challenges:• RapidchangeofSTEM

knowledge• Increaseintools,AI• Socialskills(project

management,teamleadership)

• Increasingteamsize

KatyBörner,OlgaB.Scrivner,Xiaozhong Liu,IndianaUniversity

Programming

Science&Technologyvs.Education/Trainingvs.Jobs

Needtostudythe (mis)matchandtemporaldynamicsofS&Tprogress,educationandworkforcedevelopmentoptions,andjobrequirements.

Challenges:• RapidchangeofSTEM

knowledge• Increaseintools,AI• Socialskills(project

management,teamleadership)

• Increasingteamsize

KatyBörner,OlgaB.Scrivner,Xiaozhong Liu,IndianaUniversity

Leadership

Science&Technologyvs.Education/Trainingvs.Jobs

Needtostudythe (mis)matchandtemporaldynamicsofS&Tprogress,educationandworkforcedevelopmentoptions,andjobrequirements.

Challenges:• RapidchangeofSTEM

knowledge• Increaseintools,AI• Socialskills(project

management,teamleadership)

• Increasingteamsize

KatyBörner,OlgaB.Scrivner,Xiaozhong Liu,IndianaUniversity

DataScience

Science&Technologyvs.Education/Trainingvs.Jobs

Needtostudythe (mis)matchandtemporaldynamicsofS&Tprogress,educationandworkforcedevelopmentoptions,andjobrequirements.

Challenges:• RapidchangeofSTEM

knowledge• Increaseintools,AI• Socialskills(project

management,teamleadership)

• Increasingteamsize

KatyBörner,OlgaB.Scrivner,Xiaozhong Liu,IndianaUniversity

DataScience

Science&Technologyvs.Education/Trainingvs.Jobs

Studyresultsareneededby:• Students:Whatjobswillexistin1-4years?

Whatprogram/learningtrajectoryisbesttoget/keepmydreamjob?

• Teachers:Whatcourseupdatesareneeded?Whatcurriculumdesignisbest?Whatismycompetitiondoing?Howmuchtimelyknowledge (togetajob)vs.foreverknowledge(tobepreparedfor80productiveyears)shouldIteach?Howtoinnovateinteachingandgettenure?

• Employers:Whatskillsareneedednextyear,in5years?Whotrainsthebest?Whatskillsdoesmycompetitionlistinjobadvertisements?Howtohire/trainproductiveteams?

WhatisROIofmytime,money,compassion?

KatyBörner,OlgaB.Scrivner,Xiaozhong Liu,IndianaUniversity

EnteraJob,GetCourseRecommendations

Li,Nan,Naren Suri,ZhenGao,TianXia,KatyBörner,andXiaozhong Liu.2017."EnteraJob,GetCourseRecommendations".iConference 2017,Wuhan,China.

Thesystemrepresentsinformationonjobs,courses,companies,etc.viaaheterogeneousknowledgegraphwith 395,030nodesand993,526edges.Studentspickadreamjob;thentextandgraph-basedalgorithmsrecommendoptimizededucationopportunities,i.e.,coursesthatmaximizetime,money,and/orlearning.

NetworkGraph

954Locations

1774Companies

6924

Companyspecialties

8350Jobs

716

Universitycourses

750MOOCs

IUDataScienceProgram:Courses,Skills&Jobs

ExemplarysetofIUDataSciencecourses,‘SoftwareEngineering’jobs,andassociatedskills.JobdatawasretrievedfromLinkedInandCareerBuilderandcoursedatacomefromtheIUcourselist.Ascanbeseen,therearemanyskills(inorange)thatareexclusivelyassociatedwithcoursesorjobs;however,theskillsinthemiddleinterlinkcourses(inred)tojobs(inblue).

KatyBörner,MichaelGinda &Xiaozhong Liu,IndianaUniversity

IUDataScienceProgram:StudentCourseTransitionNetwork

Empowerstudents,teachers,andcurriculumcommitteememberstounderstandanddiscusscurrentanddesirablestudentcohorts,keycoursetrajectories,orthe(gatekeeper)rolethatspecificcoursesplay.Vertically,coursesarearrangedintofourgroupsbasedonthedepartmentofferingthecourse.Withineachverticalgrouping,thenodesaresortedbythetotalenrollmentforthecoursewithhighestvaluesontop.Nodesizeencodesnumberofstudentsenrolled;nodecolordenotesoverallGPAforthecourse.

MichaelGinda,KaylaScroggins&KatyBörner,IndianaUniversity

USSTEM:AcademicCareerPathways

Measureandvisualizehowstudentsenter,exitandpersistinpathwaystowardSTEMdegreesandcareers.UsesdataonstudentsandtheworkforcebytheNationalCenterforEducationStatisticsandtheNationalCenterforScienceandEngineeringStatistics.FundedbyNSFNCSE-1538763. Interactivewebsite:http://demo.cns.iu.edu/webvis/stem

MichaelGinda,AdamMaltese&KatyBörner,IndianaUniversity

Registerforfree:http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu.ClassrestartsJan8,2018.

IVMOOC 2018

TheInformationVisualizationMOOCivmooc.cns.iu.edu

Studentsfrom~100countries370+facultymembers

#ivmooc

IVMOOCData

Datawascollectedfromdifferentsources:• 1,901studentsregisteredviaGCB(1215male/557female)• 52,557slidedownloadsfromourserver• 18,893videoviewsviaYouTube• 193accountsmade730tweets• 134studentstook183examsinGoogleCourseBuilder(GCB)• 674remarkson215differentforumthreadsinDrupal• 64studentssubmittedprojectsviaDrupal

MichaelGinda &KatyBörner,IndianaUniversity

Jan.22:CourseStarts March11:FinalExamDeadline

IVMOOCStudentRegistrationandActivityMichaelGinda &KatyBörner,IndianaUniversity

IVMOOCStudentClientProjects:AllInteractionsMichaelGinda &KatyBörner,IndianaUniversity

IVMOOCStudentEngagementandPerformance

Custominteractivevisualizationsof2015IVMOOCstudentengagementandperformancedata,explorefunctionalityonlineathttp://demo.cns.iu.edu/webvis/learning-analytics/heatmap.html

MichaelGinda &KatyBörner,IndianaUniversity

AnalysisandVisualizationTypesvs.UserNeedTypes

Emmons,Light,andBörner.2017."MOOCVisualAnalytics:EmpoweringTeachers,Students,Researchers,andDevelopersofMassivelyOpenOnlineCourses".JASIST.DOI:10.1002/asi.23852

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