9 juillet 2015

By Eric Riedel - EvoLLLution. With the new learning opportunities opened up through technology and an increasing expectation in many fields for advanced degrees, more adults are returning to school to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees. More...

By Carmen Neghina - EvoLLLution. The most important area for improvement we see is in how universities respond and communicate with prospective international students. Overall, our student researchers sent almost 1,000 emails to universities, asking for additional information about tuition or language tests and requirements. More...

By Robert S. Lapiner - EvoLLLution. The Obama administration’s impulse to develop mechanisms to “rate” undergraduate programs by output criteria is a belated but understandable response to help potential students and their families make informed decisions in choosing the program and place most likely to meet their needs. More...

By Elizabeth Matthews - EvoLLLution. Every year, approximately 250,000 undergraduates participate in a study abroad experience for a semester or yearlong program. These intensive cultural experiences offer many benefits to college students, including the ability to learn in a different country, immerse themselves in new/unfamiliar cultures, and share and exchange ideas with peers and professors who may hold different perspectives then their own. More...

By Michael Horn - EvoLLLution. University of California President Janet Napolitano took recently to the pages of the Washington Post to review and critique new books on the future of higher education by University Ventures Fund Managing Director Ryan Craig (College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education) and New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program Director Kevin Carey (The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere). More...

By Robert Hill - EvoLLLution. As a full-time seasoned university professor, I am not some ostrich with my head in the sand wistful about what happened to all of our erstwhile residential students. I recognize that few students attend highly selective, prestigious institutions. Most students attend either a public state college or university, and almost half of all our undergraduate students currently attend a community college. More...

By Robert Hill - EvoLLLution. Education, both at the K-12 and post-secondary level, is certainly susceptible to trends. There is a long litany of modern innovations that were prophesized to revolutionize the way we teach (“deliver instruction” to use the current jargon) or the way our students learn in college. Some of them include service learning, study abroad, dual credit, prior learning assessment of experiential learning, open admissions, clicker devices, distance learning, learning communities, freshmen seminars, the flipped classroom, low-residency and accelerated formats (even three-year bachelor degree programs), outcomes assessment, anti-plagiarism software, fully online and blended/hybrid courses, and of course, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). More...

By Karen Gross - EvoLLLution. Over the past few months, a number of colleges/universities and private employers have forged partnerships, shining a spotlight on these unique relationships. These arrangements are designed to create win-wins: enrollments go up at institutions of higher education (much needed in today’s marketplace) and employers can offer an added benefit to their employees and improve the quality of their workforce. More...

By Chris LaBelle - EvoLLLution. The NMC Horizon Report has been a respected source of new and upcoming trends in the field of educational technology for some time. More...

By Robert S. Lapiner - EvoLLLution. Some four years ago, Frederick Hess writing in The Atlantic brought broad public awareness to trends that insiders in higher education had long observed. He noted statistics that still hold today (according to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics and the most recent U.S. Census surveys): adult students over the age of 25 constitute nearly 40 percent of all those enrolled in higher education. More...