Bringing Harvard Online – and the vision of ‘the 60-year curriculum’
Virtual Deep Dive with Hunt Lambert, Dean Emeritus of Division of Continuing Education at Harvard University16 July 2020
16:00 CEST (Amsterdam time) 15:00 GMT+1 (London time) 08:00 MDT (Denver, CO time)
About the Interview
Learners’ needs constantly evolve. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to transform curricula of higher education institutions.
Join us to learn from the experience of Harvard University – one of the most traditional universities – in bringing their programmes online.
How one of the world’s most prestigious and traditional universities went online, and already pre Covid served more students in the cloud than on campus
The future of education: From the 4 years to ‘the 60-year curriculum’
Key differences – and misconceptions – between traditional and fully online learners
Speakers
Hunt is the Former Dean of the Division of Continuing Education and University Extension at Harvard University. Before becoming an academic, Hunt left MIT to build the global internet working in the telecommunications industry for 15 years helping build data and wireless communications system globally. It was there that 'he experienced the impact that technology and interconnectivity was having on people and the world around them.'
After retiring early, Hunt began teaching at CSU and building their Entrepreneurship Center and Entrepreneurship program. He helped establish a new Office of Economic Development with a goal to grow the value of CSU to the State of Colorado. After helping launch 15 lab-based startups he started to study how CSU could more dramatically improve the Colorado economy through its academic programs and graduates. To accomplish this, Hunt was a founder the Colorado State University Global Campus, an all-online public university. Bringing together academics, administrators and entrepreneurs to better serve the State of Colorado’s workforce needs, he helped focus the new online campus on the needs of working professionals. CSU Global grew from 0 to over 25,000 students in ten years making it the most successful public online school of its time. While leading CSU Global in its early days, he also took over the campus based distance education program and helped it grow to 34 department-based master’s programs and 15,000 students. During these 13 years he taught the first year strategy course and capstone business plan development courses in CSU’s campus, online and Executive MBA programs.
In 2013, Hunt was asked to be Dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education and University Extension which included the Extension School and Summer School. There he built a team that cut online course development and production costs by 90%, introduced live Zoom based teaching and learning and started a new group for delivering profession education. He also introduced modular, stackable and portable academic credentialing that allowed students to build toward a masters degree through professionally oriented and liberal arts certificates. This allowed Harvard Extension School to keep its access based pricing of about $55,000 for a four year undergraduate degree and $32,000 for a masters degree. These innovations allowed Harvard DCE to grow by 80% and double number of degree graduates in only six years. When he retired, he had helped move Harvard DCE from outside on the edge of Harvard to a valued part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the best program of its kind servings over 30,000 learners annually.
In his spare time, Hunt helped lead the creation and publishing of two books related to Harvard DCE’s major innovation strategies. The first, Learning Engineering , in 2018, was part of the goal of establishing engineering practices that connected learning science to measurable learning outcomes. The 60-Year Curriculum, in 2020, explores how the need for lifelong learning drives universities and colleges to rethink the 4, 2, and 7 year models and more purposely serve the needs of the knowledge economy.
Edwin Edwin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Studyportals. He is continuously looking to optimise our long-term world impact. Apart from his overall management tasks, he seeks strategic partnerships and focuses on further developing our products and services together with students and universities.
Edwin was educated in Industrial Engineering and Management Science where he specialised in knowledge-intensive processes and innovation management. He gained project management and analytic experience as a strategy consultant for a multitude of large corporations. As part of his Master´s degree he spent one year at Osaka University in Japan and he worked in the IT services team for the Olympic Games both in Athens and Turin. Edwin is a strong believer of international and intercultural experiences for the benefit of Personal and Professional development as well as society at large- through Studyportals he wants to stimulate and help others to broaden their horizon.
He is the chair of the Marketing & Recruitment Expert Community of the EAIE (European Association for International Education) and a frequent speaker at international Education conferences. In September 2013 Edwin was honoured with the EAIE Rising Star Award for – despite his young career – making a notable contribution to international education.
Thijs is Director Analytics and Consulting Team at Studyportals since 2015 and partner of iE&D Solutions BV since 2006. Some of his recent clients are: University of London, Karolisnka Institute, University of Groningn, Utrecht University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Jönköping University, Uppsala University, VU University Amsterdam, Radboud University, University of Twente, University of the Arctic, Tromsø University, College of Europe and NHTV Breda University. From 1989 until 2005 Thijs worked for Tilburg University (14 yrs; NL), the ERASMUS Bureau in Brussels and for Sheffield Hallam University (1.5 yrs; UK).
Thijs is the founder of the Professional Section on Marketing & Recruitment of the European Association for International Education (EAIE). He was the chair of M&R from 2002 until 2008 and was a member of EAIE’s Executive Board from 2004 until 2008. In 2006 he published a book on The Impact of Tuition Fees on International Student Recruitment and in September 2009, Thijs was awarded the Bo Gregersen Award for Best Practice of the EAIE.