OneHE and Peer Review Portal invite higher education institutions to send their expression of interest in the Global Benchmarking Review 2019 project by 22 November. The project connects, supports and compares global practice in higher education by benchmarking key themes and retention data with experts and peers. More...07 décembre 2019
OneHE / Peer Review Portal: Global Benchmarking Review 2019
OneHE and Peer Review Portal invite higher education institutions to send their expression of interest in the Global Benchmarking Review 2019 project by 22 November. The project connects, supports and compares global practice in higher education by benchmarking key themes and retention data with experts and peers. More...26 novembre 2019
Another Drop in College Readiness
By Elin Johnson. Percentage of students who have met English and math benchmarks lowest in 15 years. More...
22 mai 2019
The Really Really Rough Guide to e-Learning Benchmarking in Higher Education
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Derek Morrison: The Really Really Rough Guide to e-Learning Benchmarking in Higher Education, Auricle October 20, 2005
The point of this article is eventually stated as this: "Because benchmarking can mean different things to different people, there will be different expectations of it. I also suspect benchmarking could easily become ideologically driven, with advocates and acolytes of one model or another becoming entrenched in their belief that there is only one 'true path' to enlightenment and those who stray from it are to be considered near heretics". More...
20 avril 2019
Benchmarking the Digital Business of Higher Ed Marketing
Marketing and communications staff can help to move their institutions toward embracing digital business thinking and practices. More...
26 mars 2019
Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, and Benchmarking
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, and Benchmarking
A special issue of IRRODL has been released. I cover five items, beginning with this one. Good overview article describing the development, choice and use of two e-learning quality frameworks, with an account of some of the dangers (the 'dark side') of using a quality framework. More...
02 mars 2019
Underrepresented Students, Unintended Consequences
By Doug Lederman. Two prominent researchers say some selective colleges have responded to pressure to hit national benchmarks for enrolling low-income students -- in ways that hurt other needy students who are equally academically worthy. More...
09 novembre 2018
E-Learning Benchmark Established with Launch of the Institute of Financial Services' KnowledgeBank
E-Learning Benchmark Established with Launch of the Institute of Financial Services' KnowledgeBank
The corporate community is often well ahead of the academic community in the deployment of e-learning technologies, and this announcement is a case in point. What is significant about this item is this: "RetrievalWare enables the retrieval of very specific information by 'slicing-and-dicing' search results using dynamic classification - the ability to mix concepts, terms and expressions across multiple categories to quickly isolate desired information." The key here is the concept of 'dynamic categoization' - the automated sorting of items into categories in real time. More...
30 octobre 2018
Benchmarking Higher Ed AV Staffing Levels — Revisited
Techno-News Blog. Have you ever met an AV support department whose members feel like they’re well-staffed, are 100 percent caught up on all projects, are easily able to satisfy the support demands of the campus community, and have plenty of free time to plan for future classroom installs? No? Me neither. More...
01 février 2018
Croissance des besoins de formation en Transports et logistique pour 2018
La hausse des effectifs dans les métiers des transports et de la logistique constatée fin 2017, devrait se poursuivre en 2018 et l’Optl prévoit dans son rapport de 2017, une augmentation des besoins de formation. Plus...
17 décembre 2017
Grad Rate Benchmark Exempts HBCUs
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A graduation rate requirement for access to special funds for minority-serving institutions in a proposed House Republican rewrite of the Higher Education Act would exempt historically black colleges and universities. More...
