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Colleges Have Little Data to Track Military Students’ Success, Report Says
By Libby Sander
Few colleges track statistics that may help them design more-effective services to support military and veteran students, a new study has found.
In a survey of 239 institutions, a majority said they did not collect retention or completion rates. Nearly three-quarters did not do so for active-duty military students, while about two-thirds did not do so for veterans. The research was conducted jointly by NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and InsideTrack, a company that provides success coaching for students.
The groups’ seven-page report on the survey findings, released on Thursday, suggests that without… Continue reading
Posted in Adult Learners, Online Education
Tagged adult learners, adult students, distance learning, InsideTrack, NASPA, student veterans
A personal reflection on Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
By Ryan Easttum
MOOCs are kicking down the doors of education, and replacing them with a much easier and figurative sliding glass door. That is, they’re easy to get into and you can peer right in. However, as a holder of an advanced degree and taker of many a MOOC, it’s not quite what it’s cracked up to be.
First, allow me to share my academic history. I was an achiever – not quite an overachiever, but I took zeal in getting A’s and bringing home honors and awards. Spelling bees and Geography bees in primary school and then… Continue reading
Offline education the domain of priveledged few? 6 predictions on the future of higher education.
By Parneet Gosal
The top social media colleges according to Student Advisor
Having just finished my very first online lecture on the history of the internet, I am both heartened and dismayed by the experience. Heartened that 34,077 students can enroll in a class taught by a single professor, but dismayed that education (online or otherwise) continues to push learning-by-rote and a lecture based knowledge-transmission model. One thing remains clear – this is only the beginning of the disruption of higher education as we know it.
Read more: seedwalker.com
Parneet Gosal is a… Continue reading
The Coming Campus Tsunami and the Business of Education
Avi Bernstein
Director of BOLLI
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Brandeis University
In “The Campus Tsunami” — one of the most talked about columns in recent memory in my circles—award-winning NY Times columnist David Brooks alerts us to the coming storm: in a dramatic exercise in understatement Brooks offers this prediction: “What happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education: a rescrambling around the Web.”
To get what Brooks is fussing about, you will need to recall what your locally-held or family-owned newspaper looked like in 1999 and… Continue reading
Posted in Future of Higher Education, Online Education
Tagged David Brooks, distance learning, Doug Lemov, e-learning, E.D. Hirsch, embodied classroom, higher education, Hubert Dreyfus, liberal education, life-long learning, Teach Like a Champion, The Campus Tsunami, Theodore Sizer, value proposition
Can Accreditation Make a Difference?
The last decade of discussion of higher education has occasionally addressed the role of the accrediting bodies for higher education institutions. There are two types of accrediting bodies in the US. The first accredits institutions. The second accredits programs such as engineering, business, and public health. Criticism of both types has opened discussion about whether accrediting bodies make any real difference to students and employers in terms of quality. This is essentially a question of their efficacy.
That is why it was heartening to see the changes under consideration by one accrediting body – AACSB… Continue reading
