Whether rebounding from a sluggish 2022 or rivaling pre-pandemic enrollment numbers, colleges and universities embraced a variety of initiatives to win new students and maintain a healthy cohort.
VitalSource's Annual Course Materials Report found that about a fifth of all students now purchase course materials directly through their LMS rather than through standard retail options.
The Changing Landscape of Online Education found that faculty resistance, lack of proper infrastructure and concerns about quality are keeping some chief online officers from meeting increased student demand.
Across the globe, higher education institutions work tirelessly to build and maintain a record of excellence for quality educational experiences, and that same effort and strategic mindset should be applied to online education.
Educators say they want to embrace the technology’s potential to teach and learn in new ways, but when it comes to assessing students, they see a need to “ChatGPT-proof” test questions and assignments. For some instructors that means a return to paper exams, after years of digital-only tests. Some professors will be requiring students to […]
"Just as many of our programs have adapted to both an on-campus and remote element, we are seeing many opportunities to use mobile technology to collaborate with our surrounding communities to provide dining services to our students in the years ahead," said Mike Henderson of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
"You have to be open to fertility," Decker says. "You can't just sit there and say, 'Nothing's good except what we've been doing for the last 40 years.'"
Increasingly, colleges and universities are limiting cash on campuses and seeing a variety of benefits, including reduced administrative workloads, modernized operations and improved efficiency. An environment that prioritizes cashless transactions also better meets the expectations of students, parents and campus visitors, who overwhelmingly no longer carry or use cash. Download this eBook to learn more […]
A new report by Wiley found that half of today’s online students had previously stopped out of a college-level degree or program and one-third are first-generation students.
