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Useful New Book Offers Inspiration, Guidance to Finish that Degree — Affordably
According to recent sobering statistics, more than 50 million working-age Americans have some college but no degree.*
Courageous Learning: Finding a New Path through Higher Education (John Ebersole and William Patrick; Hudson Whitman/ECP) may help. The book is aimed squarely at working-age Americans with no degree, and was written to guide adults—whose financial and time constraints differ from traditional campus-bound students—to finish their degree at accredited institutions.
Dr. Ebersole, president of Excelsior College and a leading advocate for adult degree completion said, “Courageous Learning was written to demonstrate options, and to show that a student can finish a degree… Continue reading
5 Higher Ed Tech Trends for 2012
In 2012, higher education institutions will look to improve the learning experience through analytics and personalized learning environments, while reducing costs with digital resources and cloud technologies.
“What’s happening, especially with the prestigious institutions and the large state universities, is that because technology is evolving so much that those institutions are investing an incredible amount of money, despite their own budget cuts, into crafting online learning experiences that are as unique as the on-campus experience so that there is a true distinction and a true value that can warrant the higher tuition dollars and preserve the prestige of the… Continue reading
Posted in Future of Higher Education
Tagged budget, for-profit education, student outcomes, student support, technology
Online education innovators likely to produce the next disruptive tech
Joshua Kim, Director of Learning and Technology for the Master of Health Care Delivery Science Program at Dartmouth College, sees a tremendous market demand, especially globally, for new online learning technology in higher education. Kim argues that the global online higher education space will produce the next start up success story, in part, “because the emerging middle classes of the emerging economies share an insatiable demand for higher education and postsecondary credentialing.”
Posted in Future of Higher Education, Online Education
Tagged distance learing, technology
