Most students attend college to earn a degree—a respected credential that informs the world and the workplace that they have specific knowledge and skills, and the maturity and intellect to prove it. "Issuing and maintaining credentials is central to American higher education. Nobody can really compete with us on this. That's our crown jewel, in […]
The Lumina Foundation has been pursuing the goal of recognizing and accepting for-credit microcredentials and learning experiences for several years, through their Connecting Credentials effort and the proposed framework they launched back in 2015 (http://connectingcredentials.org/). This framework seeks to define an architecture wherein competencies can be defined in structured sets that can lead to microcredentials that […]
The evolving state of credentialing will make room for the emergence of new players, who can hold badges or service blockchains between students, campuses and employers. In fact, Blockchain-based technologies are already being leveraged. Institutions such as The University of Texas are developing blockchain-based transcript services that can ease the process with which credentials are […]
The University of Wyoming now uses an augmented reality platform with a simulated class as part of its teacher education program. To use the program, a teacher-in-training faces a camera and teaches a class of digital students that's projected onto a screen. Offsite actors impersonate students with voices and digital puppeteering. Presenting a lesson in […]
The University of Iowa adds narration in five languages to its online commencement videos so families from around the globe can experience their children's graduation.
Why should college administrators consider making part of their website or campus app accessible to speakers of languages other than English, and can you offer any tips for success? "Providing a multilingual web experience conveys that the institution cares about a diverse background of applicants as well as their enrolled student body. From a digital […]
For some states, democratizing higher education begins with simplifying its offerings. Under a new proposal by President Ray Cross, the University of Wisconsin would merge the state's 13 two-year colleges into its system. The consolidation may help keep Wisconsin's two-year colleges afloat, as higher ed student populations and high school graduate numbers continue to decline. […]
When the finance team at Wofford College in South Carolina wanted to show it could support a slightly higher than average tuition increase, advanced financial software was on hand to make the case to the board of trustees. "We loaded historical sticker prices for Wofford and our peers into the software and then made a […]
A college or university's campus represents, physically, its environment for learning—its training ground for future thought leaders. Yet today, many U.S. institutions of higher education lack the appropriate resources and funding needed to develop new infrastructure or to upgrade existing buildings. To solve this problem, more are turning toward a public-private partnership (P3) model—a practice common […]
