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The mass personalization of higher education
Dave Jarrat
Vice President, Marketing
InsideTrack
Jerry, a 34-year-old father of two and full-time department supervisor at a national hardware chain sits down on the couch with his laptop. It’s 8 p.m. and his wife Jill is putting the kids to bed. He logs into his online learning account and sees the instructional modules that have been loaded for him based on the results of the quiz he took this morning on his smart phone. The modules for this evening include an interactive video on cost accounting from a professor at Carnegie Mellon and a problem set… Continue reading
MOOCs Are No Education Panacea, but Here’s What Can Make Them Work
Wayne Smutz
Executive Director of the World Campus and
Associate Vice President for Outreach
Penn State University
Everyone’s talking about massive open online courses, or MOOCs. The popular wisdom is that they will revolutionize higher education, and possibly even put traditional colleges and universities out of business. But MOOCs aren’t likely to solve the fundamental student learning challenges that colleges and universities face, and they certainly won’t take the place of a college education.
With the potential to host tens of thousands of students in a single course, MOOCs make lots of content available to lots… Continue reading
Posted in Online Education
Tagged higher education, higher education challenge, MOOCs, unemployment rate, Wayne Smutz
Student Records and Improvement to College Graduation Rates
By Larry Penley
This past week, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled against the Department of Education and its Secretary in a request that was filed asking the Court to amend the June 2012 judgment that set aside new rules associated with what is called Gainful Employment. The Gainful Employment Rule from the Department was designed to motivate for-profit colleges and universities to reduce loan default rates among graduates by insisting on higher levels of post-graduation, successful employment.
The Court’s ruling may well have unintended, but positive consequences if it provides an avenue to improve college graduation rates.… Continue reading
Teenagers in the Ivory Tower
Teenagers in the Ivory Tower
Engaging and Retaining Traditional College Students
By Catherine Sloan
Even for the most well-adjusted students, entering college is apt to be a tumultuous experience: The transition to campus living, increased academic rigor, and a hefty price tag can easily become overwhelming and, when you add the maturation challenges of traditional-age students, can lead to a speedy departure.
But with the doors of higher education flung wide and pressure mounting to improve student outcomes, it’s increasingly important to understand what happens when 18-year-olds enter the ivory tower.
I’ve coached over a thousand students during… Continue reading
Certification – Indications of Market Readiness in U.S. Higher Education
By Larry Penley
There is growing evidence of ever more rapid change in how we learn and in the choices we are making about higher education. Those changes are making it more likely that a certification process will spread to non-technical areas. It is now more likely that certification will begin to replace traditional higher education with its graduation and diplomas; instead, a system of testing for what has been learned along with certifying that learning is becoming more likely – and sooner.
Higher education in the US has remained committed to a form of education that is… Continue reading
Posted in Future of Higher Education
Tagged certification process, higher education, Larry Penley, MOOCs
