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

Social Marketing

Webpage

Adding items of interest

Webpage

• 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