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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
#SacklerModVisST