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MSEd Information Technology
D.A.R.E. 2010
What is this program?
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Who are our students?
70% female 30% male
about 80% hold a teaching license
No longer international students(but 4 have expressed plans to enter in the Fall)
Are you working at the same time you are completing this degree?
13 teachers or substitute teachers
2 trainers, 1 graphic designer,
1 college teacher, 1 university staff
Several work more than full time or more than one job
What are your career aspirations?
80% are K12 teachers but only 56% ID teaching as goal
How did you initially hear about the MSEd InfoTech program at WOU?
Why did the MSEd Information Technology program appeal to you?
82% said very important or essential
How important was it to you that the program can be taken online?
• Online options• Convenience and flexibility• Important content for any career• Outstanding faculty and advisors• Engaging and relevant content
• Fun classes
Selling points
• Clearly the website is #1 marketing tool• Increase our social marketing• Ensure good advising • Increase name familiarity• Showcase our main selling points
How can we reach out to more potential students?
What are we doing already to improve marketing?
Redoing the brochures and adding key terms from survey.
Postcard
Added key terms and new quotes
Banner – exhibitions, name familiarity
• In terms of marketability, growth potential is immense.
• In terms of capacity, not so much.
Program Growth
Grad Office enrollment numbers
These are Week 2 enrollment numbers Not all students are full-time, every term Still smoothing out this process
Total Program Numbers
MSEd InfoTech students . . . . . . . 47
Lib/Ed Media students . . . . . . . . . 10 (2 are also included in InfoTech #s)
09-10 Graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Students are not necessarily enrolled in classes every term
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0Fall 08 Win 09 Spr 09 Fall 09 Win 10 Spr 10
Total
Resident
International
Growth since Fall 08
InfoTech Graduate Courses Offered
Instructors
Additional Course Coverage
• Ed Program Ed 421: 4 sections Fall and Spring
• New Ed Program Ed 270: 2-3 sections every term
• Two 1-credit courses for 100 MAT students each year
Speed of Change
• Mix of courses will have to change
• Course content will have to change
• Instructor skills will be constantly challenged
Staffing
• 1 tenured faculty (Mary Bucy, coordinator)
• 1 dedicated part-time adjunct (Denvy Saxowsky)
• 1 grad advisor (Bill Hamlin)
• DEP support (Susan Griffin; JoNan LeRoy)
• A variety of adjunct specialists
• Significant Graduate Office support
• The university wants to grow grad programs; this program is poised to grow.
• How can we best attract students?
• What size do we want to grow to and maintain?
• What are our staffing needs to make this happen?
To ponder