By Aaron Brower - Evolllution. I’ve started this blog to provide a bit more detail on how our UW Flexible Option Program functions. As I get calls about our program, I’m often asked about specific challenges and how we face them; challenges about educational elements, about operations, about the business model, and about our institutional partnerships. More...
By Nick Ducoff - Evolllution. Bootcamps and other non-institutional higher education providers have taken the postsecondary industry by storm in recent years. Their popularity among both students and employers has forced both institutions and the Department of Education to take notice and recalibrate to determine where these providers fit into the higher education ecosystem. More...
By William Ryan - Evolllution. Do you remember how excited you were entering those freshmen college classes? The long lecture halls with the tiered seating where you could gaze down and listen attentively to the one who would share their expertise, their knowledge, and be there to evaluate your efforts along with the other 300 or so classmates? Oh my, those were the days indeed. More...
By Rhonda Tracy - Evolllution. Many years ago a seasoned faculty member said that it was important to acknowledge that when you say yes to something, regardless of the origin of the request, it means you are saying yes to everything that comes after. In 2008, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) said yes to competency-based education (CBE) as the primary mode of instruction for its online Learn on Demand (LoD) program. More...
By Dorothy Wax - Evolllution. Competency-based education (CBE) programs have experienced a resurgence in recent years in part as a response to employer concerns that college graduates and credentialed workers do not have the skills and competencies to succeed in the workplace. More...
By William Ryan - Evolllution. Competency-based education (CBE) is a very hot topic as businesses clamor for skilled workers who can be productive immediately and more institutions rush to develop new programs. New consortiums, such as the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN), are forming to help institutions develop standards and identify support services needed. More...
By . Just a quick note: next week, I’ll be on that all-too-common common transportation route, Toronto-Milwaukee-Shanghai, en route to attend (and deliver a paper at) the 6th International Conference on World-Class Universities, and the blog will be on hiatus while I’m away. Anyways, to business.
Everyone knows that for dependent students – that is, students less than four years out of secondary school, or who have not spent two consecutive years in the labour market full-time – the amount of student assistance available depends on parental income. And that’s mostly true. But there are some catches. More...
By . A few months back, I finished reading The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession: The BRICs and the United States (edited by – among others – Phil Altbach and Liz Reisberg). It’s a good book for two reasons: first, it contains pretty good thumbnail sketches of the four BRIC countries’ higher ed systems, and second, it shows how crazy and fragile academics lives are in most of the world. More...
By . The University of Toronto has a problem (several, actually, but I’m trying to keep these short). And the problem is that if you’re not actually at U of T, and someone says “U of T”, what do you think of? The answer, of course, is the St. George campus: that big and occasionally beautiful hunk of land East of Queen’s Park, College, and Bloor.
But what about the other two campuses?
It’s easy to forget about the Scarborough and Mississauga campuses. More...
By . Back in July, the Canadian Association of University Business Officers released the results of its survey of university finances for 2013-14. The results underline the fact that institutions in Canada are facing some highly heterogeneous financial circumstances. More...
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