ASU Aims to Enroll 100 Million Students by 2030

On Thursday, Arizona State University announced ambitions to teach 100 million students globally by 2030. By starting a free global education effort in April 2022, Arizona State University aims to enroll an extra 100 million students by 2030. The initiative will offer online resources in 40 languages for five business courses. The initiative's major goal is to make education more affordable and accessible to students all around the world. In this curriculum, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will be utilized to educate and grade the students. The lessons will be offered on cell phones and desktops, with professors appearing as Avatars and students working in international groups with their peers, according to Philip Thigo (ASU Thunderbird School of Global Management Senior Director). He believes that if successful credits aid in obtaining business financing, students would gain greatly. 

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ASU's Thunderbird School of Global Management will lead the programme, which will be supported in part by a $25 million grant from Phoenix billionaires Francis and Dionne Najafi. Thunderbird was founded in 1946 as a private, autonomous college until being purchased by Arizona State University in 2014. 

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Sanjeev Khagram (Dean and Director General, ASU Thunderbird School of Global Management) emphasized that the programme would first be offered to college graduates and will gradually expand to include freshmen.Only 7% of the world's population now has a college diploma.However, by 2035, 470 million people will be looking for a degree, and eight colleges would be needed to accommodate this demand, each serving 40,000 students per week for the next 15 years. Students from Iran, Kenya, Mexico, Indonesia, Egypt, India, Senegal, Brazil, and Vietnam will benefit from the programme, which will provide courses in their original languages. It will be extended throughout Africa and the Middle East. By the second year, students had learned 25 languages in the Asia and Latin areas, and by the fourth year, they had learned 25 languages in Europe and Central Asia. Students who successfully complete the courses will get academic credit as well as a certificate in global management and entrepreneurship.

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The credits will be transferable and can be applied toward an ASU degree. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which were introduced a decade ago, provided the groundwork for this project. The courses were discovered to have a wide audience but a poor completion rate. Poor design and reliance on web-based textbooks, according to Bryan Alexander (Georgetown University Senior Scholar). According to him, the project must demonstrate its worth by successfully retaining a substantial number of enrolled students.

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"One of the reasons Arizona State University is so thrilled to have Thunderbird as part of our enterprise is that it is an institution that has been focused on sustainable prosperity internationally for decades," ASU President Michael Crow remarked of the importance of offering global access to higher education. He went on to say that the Najafi pledge will "bring all of us closer together." We are appreciative of their dedication to a borderless extension of higher education's options."

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