Early alert systems. Transfer credit assessment tools. Adaptive technologies. Apps to push student reminders. Career assessment software. Colleges and universities nationwide use these and many other success technologies to help students improve grades, increase involvement and persist to graduation with as little debt as possible. Driven, in part, by pressure from new federal regulations, campus […]
Students enrolled in media ethics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall walked into a lecture hall that looked radically different than two years ago. Gone is the stadium-style seating. Now the room, used for a wide range of courses, has 100 rolling swivel chairs with adjustable tables and nine mounted […]
The bold headlines written about free tuition and college debt relief this election season signal that higher education occupies a more prominent place in the 2016 presidential campaign than it has held in past races. The reason? The economy's better-paying jobs demand more highly skilled employees, while the public and its elected officials expect a […]
Overwhelmed by tweets posted every minute of the Presidential campaign? Confused by cable TV hosts conjuring new, often contradictory, poll results? You're not alone. Whether you are a voter, campaign strategist, college student, or professor, the old lessons of political campaigns haven't been very useful in this new era of politics and the media. Call it a […]
What are some of the instructional technology challenges higher ed leaders are facing as their campuses grow in physical size? Unfortunately, technology budgets do not often grow when campuses do. So selections must be made with maximum ROI in mind, from both the usability and support ends. New deployments ought to integrate into the university's […]
Adaptive learning, which brings the benefits of one-on-one tutoring to large numbers of students with instruction tailored to the learner, has garnered attention since the 1970s. But while it's a common topic in education circles and technology is now widely available to make it happen, translating traditional lectures to an adaptive learning format takes time, […]
If you work in higher ed digital marketing or communications, you've likely heard about the annual College-Bound Student E-Expectations Survey. Launched 11 years ago, this comprehensive research has become a critical piece of marketing intelligence. The survey asked 3,000 college-bound high school seniors and juniors about their digital habits and expectations—from the start of the […]
Almost all U.S. colleges and universities now award certificates, digital badges and other forms of microcredentials so students can quickly show an employer specialized skills they've acquired. Driving this fast-growing trend are workforce millennials who want to learn, for instance, how to operate an Amazon delivery drone or repair a self-driving car without having to […]
Can gender-specific campaigns boost fundraising? Female graduates receive fewer solicitations for donations, and they give at a lower rate than do their male counterparts, according to the "Alumni Engagement and Giving" survey by Alumni Monitor, a higher education consulting service that tracks active alumni accounts across more than 50 colleges and universities. The way schools […]
Five years ago, a researcher in Kazakhstan frustrated at the inaccessibility and cost of so many scholarly journals launched Sci-Hub, a website that today provides quick, free access to 47 million articles, often by illegally bypassing paywalls. A recent article in Science found that in a single six-month period, Sci-Hub received requests for a staggering […]
