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.
About a fifth of business leaders believe educators are to blame. Ithaca College professor Dr. Diane Gayeski, however, believes they can't be more wrong.
"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.'"
Three recent programs and partnerships highlight the county's new efforts to boost rural students' awareness of higher education opportunities—especially by leveraging tech.
Institutions must reconsider fostering coming-of-age experiences for young adults as its main business model to a knowledge service whose programs are as fluid as tomorrow's students, according to an Ernst & Young report.
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships—oh my! Alliances can be highly individualized depending on each institution's unique set of challenges. However, these trends can help explain what's going on.
With more than 200 lab instruments available at a student's fingertips from CMU's revolutionary cloud lab, the only limit to what a scientist can do is dictated by their own ingenuity. "We are automating science," Dean Rebecca Doerge says.
With Colorado and Rhode Island College of Design opting out of U.S. News Best College Rankings, a flood of other schools may follow suit. Is your school prepared to market itself effectively in the digital, consumer-first age?
Despite pressure from at least 19 state governors banning TikTok use on public university campuses, the majority of young college students are thinking the same thing: "lol, no."
