By Dezi Waterhouse - EvoLLLution. Innovation in higher education is ongoing and includes specific, defined interactions with adult students beyond the classroom. Specifically, the model for academic advising has changed, and yet vestiges of the old way have remained for more than 144 years. This legacy is to the detriment of the adults. More...
07 décembre 2014
A Look at Academic Success Coaching: Impact on the Adult Student
The Balancing Act Between Customer Service and Student Accountability
By Laura Bristow - EvoLLLution. Are students our “customers”?
Many would strongly say so. In today’s climate, non-traditional higher education (and, increasingly, traditional higher education) is offered as a retail product: advertised heavily, priced competitively and packaged in instructional modalities and offerings that fit students’ lives and work schedules. More...
Addressing the Barriers to Success for Underserved Students
By Terry Rawls - EvoLLLution. In this series, we’re exploring the lessons traditional institutions and successful for-profit institutions can share with each other, and in this installment we will focus on strategic planning. The darling of accreditors, in reality strategic planning in higher education, ranges from PITA (no, not the Middle-Eastern bread or the anti-meat group) to Guiding Star. More...
Higher Education’s Enrollment Bubble: A Trends Analysis
By Elizabeth Yohn - EvoLLLution. If higher education is a bubble, when will it burst?
The sudden decline in overall student enrollment in 2012 posed serious problems for certain institutions with regard to short‐term revenues and long‐term viability. More...
How CE Can Improve Accessibility for Low-Income Students
By Edward Abeyta - EvoLLLution. In January 2014 the White House published a report, “Promising Models and a Call to Action,” in which leading experts convened to identify the barriers to increasing college opportunity.[1] Test preparation was one of the barriers noted in the report. Continuing education leaders have the opportunity to respond to this issue and position their units as a central resource to improving higher education access for low-income high school students. More...
Next Generation Institutional Management: Beyond ERP and Best-of-Breed
By Leif Anderson - EvoLLLution. The market has changed significantly over the last 10 years, driven by the pattern of disruptive innovation that actually makes things better over the long run. The debate, which was so present in our institution six to eight years ago [was] about whether or not our information systems investments were going to be single-vendor integrated investments. That was essentially the nirvana, the goal; could we get everything on the same vendor’s platforms. More...
Reclaiming Personal Learning
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Reclaiming Personal Learning
Stephen Downes, Dec 05, 2014, Online Educa Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Part of a wider session called 'Education's Reality Check', this presentation highlights the need for, and structure of, personal learning, introducing participants to the Learning and Performance Support Systems project at lpss.me. More...
Community Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit, Version 2.0
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Community Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit, Version 2.0
Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik, Vasuki Belavadi, Aditya Deshbandhu, Preeti Raghunath, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), 2014/12/05
Regular readers of OLDaily know how much I love radio, and community radio has to be one of my favourite versions of the medium. The primary purpose of community radio is to provide access to all to the public airwaves. More...
A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving for Humanities and Social Sciences
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving for Humanities and Social Sciences
Rebecca Kennison, Lisa Norberg, KN Consultants, 2014/12/05
I'm not really sure how much I support this - the idea of centralizing the system does not really appeal to me - but anything is better than the current system, and the proposal does address the problems inherent in the open access model based on individual payments made by researchers to publishers. More...
The TIPS Framework Version-2.0 : Quality Assurance Guidelines for Teachers as Creators of Open Educational Resources
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The TIPS Framework Version-2.0 : Quality Assurance Guidelines for Teachers as Creators of Open Educational Resources
Paul Kawachi, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), 2014/12/04
I'm not so happy with this resource as I am with some of the other resources produced by the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA). The quality framework the author employs is based on the concept of 'fit for purpose', which is fair enough, but the purpose emphasized is use by educators and publishers. More...
