Faculty are slowly becoming more racially and ethnically diverse – but not nearly as diverse as their students, a new Pew Research Center study found. More than three-quarters of faculty are White compared to 55 percent of students, according to fall 2017 data from the National Center for Education Statistics. More...
02 septembre 2019
Pew Study: Faculty-Student Diversity Divide Persists
What’s worse than student loan debt? Owing money and earning no college degree.
The National Student Clearinghouse, which follows the status of undergraduates at institutions eligible for federal aid, gathers information about the so-called college “persistence” rate. More...
More students turning to online courses for post-high school education
More students turning to online courses for post-high school education“It’s that ability to do class to do work at 3 o’clock in the morning in your pajamas because that’s the only time you’ve got,” TJC Director of Distant Education Ken Craver said. More...
Has Online Education Jumped The Shark?
The core thesis of the company was that online programs could drive a similar quality to campus programs and that the company’s scale and unique platform characteristics would build a competitive moat around the business over time. Today, the online education market is evolving. Secular forces are pushing more schools online. Indeed, it’s becoming obvious that all schools are going online. We’re calling it the mainstreaming of online education. More...
10 Big Mistakes Online Students Make
Online courses give students the flexibility to earn a college degree while juggling responsibilities such as work and family. But it is not uncommon for students to experience a few hiccups along the way. More...
Purdue’s TLT Partners with Faculty to Accelerate Grading in Large Enrollment Courses
A partnership at Purdue between the university’s Teaching and Learning Technologies organization and faculty exploring Gradescope has grown into a campus-wide initiative that includes an enterprise license of the tool and TLT support. More...
Report: ‘Hypercompetitive’ higher ed market will limit revenue growth
A “hypercompetitive” market for higher education along with a continued focus on affordability will constrain tuition revenue in the coming year even as state funding stabilizes, Moody’s analysts wrote in a report released this week. More...
The university challenge – are academic institutions a national security weak link?
As seats of learning, higher education institutions they are uniquely placed to support early-stage, government-backed research exploring the cutting edge of innovation in a variety of fields. This is vital, not only to further national interests, but for the institutions to be able to differentiate themselves and generate revenue in an increasingly crowded marketplace. More...
Learning About Online Learning at Small Private Colleges
The Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction is one of the largest-scale experiments (at least if you measure scale by the number of institutions involved, rather than enrollments) in online postsecondary learning. More...
Is Online Learning the Electric Car of Higher Ed?
Few of us doubt that, at some point, we will all be driving battery-powered vehicles. Will teaching and learning in higher education move from mostly a face-to-face activity, to one that is mainly done online? This shift from residential to online learning is occurring rapidly at the graduate education level. More...
