By Edward Abeyta - EvoLLLution. Micro-credentials offer institutions a new and exciting way to certify student learning, creating innovative pathways into the university for new students and providing valuable outcomes that employers are looking for. More...
23 janvier 2016
We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges… Or Do We?
Competency Based Education: Moving Adult Students Towards Credentials and Degrees
By Eric Heiser - EvoLLLution. The competency-based model for education has created a pathway to maximizing the flexibility of workforce-relevant programming for today’s non-traditional students. More...
Facilitating Transfer a Priority for College, University and Government Leaders
By Thomas Snyder - EvoLLLution. Articulation agreements help community colleges facilitate transfer for their students but only serve as a short-term fix to the larger issue of challenges two-year students face in transferring academic credit to four-year institutions. More...
Moving Past the Standard Degree Pathway: The Status Quo Needs Improving
By Elizabeth D. Capaldi Phillips - EvoLLLution. The standard degree pathway creates numerous opportunities for repetition of material and is more suited to faculty and facility management than maximizing student learning outcomes. More...
Always Consider Retention: Maximizing Success in Competency-Based Education
By William Ryan - EvoLLLution. Roughly 600 colleges are in the design phase for a new competency-based education (CBE) program, are actively creating one or already have a program in place. That’s up from an estimated 52 institutions last year according to a recent post by Paul Fain. More...
Marginal Costs, Marginal Revenue
By . Businesses have a pretty good way of knowing when to offer more or less of a good. It’s encapsulated in the equation MC = MR. More...
The Inter-Generational Equity Thing
By . I see that one of my favourite student groups, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Association (OUSA), has come out in favour of a tuition freeze. Fair enough; not many students endorse fee increases, after all. But the stated rationale for wanting one is a bit disappointing – mixing, as it does, poor historical analysis with poor generational politics. More...
The Allure of the (G)Olden Days
By . Among the many things that drive me completely crazy about discourse in higher education is the mythologizing about “the olden days”. You know, before “neoliberalism” came along, and research was non-instrumental, people “valued knowledge for its own sake”, classes were tiny, and managers were things that happened to other people. More...
Would Lower Tuition or Lower Student Debt Improve the Economy?
By . Short answer: not really, no. But judging by this Chronicle Herald article last week entitled “Eliminating Tuition Fees would Buoy Bluenose Economy“, bad ideas die hard. So let’s think this one through. More...
Political/Economic Risk and International Student Recruitment
By . A couple of big events occurred internationally over the last few weeks, which will matter to folks in the international recruitment field. Briefly, they are:
1) The Saudis are pulling back. Things are moderately bad in the kingdom right now. Their gambit of driving down the price of oil in order to run the American fracking industry out of business is not working as quickly as they hoped, and may have re-established an era of cheap, $50 (or sub-$50) oil for the foreseeable future. More...
