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The Next Big Thing
Paul J. LeBlanc, President of Southern New Hampshire, has writen a “thinking paper,” titled “Next Big Thing.” LeBlanc states, “Online learning, once on the margins of higher education, found traction with underserved populations, steadily improved, and is now mainstream and growing in popularity. In contrast to the majority of traditionally delivered courses, students in the best designed online courses find them be more student-centered, more engaging, more innovative in terms of pedagogical tools, and more rigorous. Likewise, faculty can move from lecture mode to orchestration mode, especially given our commitment to small class sizes.”
Link to full article: chronicle.com
Posted in Future of Higher Education, Online Education
Tagged distance learning, educational outcomes, Obama
Is the Value of a College Degree Still Worth the Cost?
Today’s higher education environment vis-à-vis the national economic situation has ignited a debate over whether a college degree is worth the cost. Significant budget cuts in many states have meant that colleges are raising tuitions, increasing fees, and offering less in scholarship money to students. Few students had enough money saved to pay for college prior to the economic downturn which has had a catastrophic impact on many schools (see my daily headline postings and links in the “Impact of the Economy on Higher Education” section of my blog for some examples). With less money allotted for scholarships, work study… Continue reading
Posted in Future of Higher Education
Tagged cost of education, Obama, unemployment
Where’s Rumpelstiltskin when you need him?
Doing more with less means doing it differently
Sometimes finding the budget to affect change in higher education can seem as reasonable as summoning the eponymous creature in Grimm’s fairy tale. Yet that’s the job of the leaders who gathered at last week’s policy conference of the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO).
While not a new concept, performance funding was again top-of-mind signaling both a shift in focus from access to success and generating a fair bit of consternation about how to do more with shrinking budgets. Many debated whether outcomes-based funding would produce that pile of gold… Continue reading
Posted in Future of Higher Education, Persistence and Graduation
Tagged budget, community colleges, SHEEO
The Nontraditional Student and the Traditional Campus—strangers in a strange land.
In 1961 Robert A. Heinlein published a science fiction novel about a human who returns to earth in early adulthood after being born and raised on Mars. His presence precipitates the transformation of earth’s culture…and the title of Heinlein’s book, Stranger in a Strange Land, has become a catch phrase for alienation and cultural change. I thought of that catch phrase from this cult classic when Dr. Patricia Book, Assistant Vice President of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach at Northern Colorado University, challenged her audience at the recent Noel-Levitz conference to view adult learners as “first generation students.”
Other presenters—including… Continue reading
Posted in Future of Higher Education
Tagged adult learners, Noel Levitz
Degree attainment slower for adult and community college students
From the National Center for Education Statistics Institute of Education Sciences 2008–09 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study:
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Posted in Future of Higher Education, Persistence and Graduation
Tagged adult learners, community colleges
