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30 mars 2014

MOOC 2.0: Open online education moves forward

By Amy Scott. There are some new developments this week in the land of the MOOC. That’s shorthand for the "Massive Open Online Courses" that were supposed to transform higher education as we know it, bringing free education from the likes of Harvard and Stanford to you and me.
MOOC pioneer Coursera has hired a new CEO -- none other than the former long-time president of Yale University, Richard Levin.
Meanwhile Coursera competitor edX has a new president from the business world -- former Vistaprint executive Wendy Cebula. More...

30 mars 2014

'Skill builders' enrolling in college, but not for the degree

By Eddie Small. Kevin Floerke has been down this road before.
A student at Santa Rosa Junior College in Northern California, Floerke, 26, already graduated in 2010 from UCLA, where he majored in archaeology. This time, however, unlike many other people in his field, he's not interested in getting yet another degree. He's just trying to master a set of techniques and technologies that will help him verify the details he finds while doing fieldwork.
"I'm really there to learn the program itself and be able to use it in a professional setting," he said. Floerke, who leads tours for the National Geographic Society, is part of a group of students known as "skill builders," who are using conventional colleges in an unconventional way: not to obtain degrees, but simply to learn specific kinds of expertise without spending time or money on courses they don't think they need. More...


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30 mars 2014

Rapidly changing higher education landscape requires some tough decisions from within

By Gene Budig and Alan Heaps. Those who question the fundamental value of a college degree need to stand back and accept undisputed facts. The truth is the worth of a college degree is rising. Today, young adults with just a high school diploma earn 62 percent of the typical salary of college graduates. In 1965, those with just a high school diploma earned 81 percent of the salary of college graduates.
And this is only part of the story as told by the Pew Research Center and reported to the country by The Associated Press. Ninety percent of young workers say their college degree has already or will pay off and 86 percent of those who borrowed money agree. The Associated Press reported that the medium salary of young workers is $45,500 for those with a four-year college degree or more; $30,000 for a two-year degree or some college; and $28,000 for high school graduates. Read more...

30 mars 2014

US College Entrance Exam Revisions Could Hamper Foreign Students

By Pamela Dockins. The company that administers one of the two most widely-used U.S. college admissions tests recently announced its first major revisions to its test since 2005.  The College Boards' changes to the SAT exam drop infrequently used vocabulary words and the mandatory essay, and add passages referencing U.S. historical documents.
When Howard University students from Nigeria and Jamaica were applying to college, they were among the approximately 100,000 foreign students each year who took the SAT. More...

30 mars 2014

Equity Is Better Than Debt In Financing Higher Education

By George Leef. Sometimes it makes sense to borrow to finance an investment; sometimes equity is a better choice. When it comes to college education, however, borrowing (especially through the government) is usually a mistake. If we could catalyze a system of equity financing for higher education, that would be a great improvement over the status quo.
In his 1955 paper “The Role of Government in Education,” Milton Friedman suggested the idea of equity contracts to finance college education. Friedman thought that loans were not the appropriate means of financing education and argued that the better way was to advance the needed funds for college to qualified students, who would repay a percentage of their earnings for an agreed-upon number of years. More...

30 mars 2014

Higher Ed admin survey reveals top challenges; benefits of eRA solution

University Business LogorSmart, a leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for higher education, released today its Trends in Higher Ed Grant & Research Management Report and infographic highlighting the challenges colleges and universities are facing in the management of their critical research enterprise. The report and infographic also address how electronic research administration (eRA) solutions can streamline sponsored program and compliance management. More...
30 mars 2014

Epson offers Microsoft’s OneNote App in its Scan-to-Cloud Service Portfolio

University Business LogoEpson America, a leading provider of exceptional performing business imaging solutions, today announced that OneNote, a digital note taking application designed to keep users organized, will be compatible with its document scanners. Epson® WorkForce® DS-560, DS-510 and DS-30 customers will now be able to scan to OneNote, in addition to several other scan-to-cloud services, via Document Capture Pro for more productive document organization and increased access. More...
30 mars 2014

SCUP launches higher education planning fellowship program

University Business LogoPlanning (SCUP), an international society of higher education administrators who are responsible for high-level planning projects on their campuses, has launched a fellowship program and named its first two fellows. The SCUP Fellows Program focuses on the use of best planning practices to improve outcomes at college and universities. The society launched the fellowship program at its annual, international conference last July with support from private donations to the SCUP Annual Fund and received 38 applications by the mid-December application deadline for the first two fellowship positions. More...
30 mars 2014

Honoree: The Extended Campuses of Northern Arizona University

Models of Efficiency higher ed recognition program for efficiencyBy Marcia Layton Turner. For years, The Extended Campuses of Northern Arizona University used a traditional marketing model. The four-person marketing team would create an annual budget and tie its goals and specific projects to it. Freelancers and local advertising agencies provided support for the 50 or so marketing pieces produced throughout the year.
That model worked fine until around 2010, says Ann Marie deWees, director of strategic marketing. “Then things began to change with increasing digital expectations.” More...

30 mars 2014

Bid for savings: Reverse auctions

University Business LogoBy Kylie Lacey. Real-time reverse auction events are helping institutions save on purchases—and making the procurement office an exciting place to be.
Seconds tick by. Vendors submit bid after bid in real time, battling it out to win the business of the campus procurement office. The opposite of eBay, this reverse auction format results in the price going down with each bid. More...
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