By Monica Wesley - EvoLLLution. With tuition costs continuing to rise, both cumulative and individual student loan debt becoming unsupportable, and an employment landscape that is rapidly evolving in challenging ways, it is no wonder that colleges and universities are being asked to demonstrate their tangible value. More...
By John DeLalla - EvoLLLution. You’ve heard the cliché statement many times. Roughly, “the more you learn the more you’ll earn.” Yet how do we as continuing education leaders quantify return on investment to students in our program marketing. More...
By Carolyn Young - EvoLLLution. Higher education has a reputation for being institutionally minded, stodgy and slow-moving. This characterization, however, could not be further from the reality in the continuing education (CE) environment. Serving non-traditional students, these units need to be focused on tailoring high-end customer experience and reactive to changes in the economy and labor market. More...
By Becky Takeda-Tinker - EvoLLLution. There has been much in the press recently regarding the need for higher education to provide a return-on-investment (ROI), and it has given me pause to consider how changes in our society have impacted what traditionally has been the result of a postsecondary education investment. More...
By Wayne Smutz - EvoLLLution. It’s no longer news that higher education is in the midst of dynamic and dramatic change. There’s not a week that goes by that I don’t see a new book addressing the change and the future of higher education. More...
There is a trend afoot, encouraged by the funders of research, to ask PhD students and other academic researchers to design posters explaining their work. The aim, I think, is to provide an accessible means of explaining (often unfinished) academic work.
It’s a nice idea, but many of the posters end up unattractive, overly technical and uninformative. Sometimes, they are designed to cram all the contents of a PhD on to a piece of paper of around one square metre. When that happens, they end up illegible due to the huge amounts of tiny writing. More...
By . With regards to some aspects of m-learning by adults that are informal, unstructured, and perhaps accidental rather than purposeful: I work as a Workplace Educator for Northlands College, and provide learning services to about 1000 itinerant Workers at Cameco’s McArthur River Mine Site, in northern Saskatchewan. This is a fly-in site, with camp accommodations and no other community or services. More...
By . This has been the largest and longest running (30 years) distance education conference in the USA. It’s good to see Michael Moore is speaking. We worked together many years ago at the Open University in Britain and he has been a pioneer of distance education in the USA. More...
By Cathy Davidson. Yesterday, in "Mapping the Futures of Higher Education," a student-led graduate course for Graduate Center students currently teaching in the CUNY system, we had a unit on "Life Circumstances and Pedagogical Ethics." As soon as the notes from the session are posted, we'll tweet them out with the #FuturesEd hashtag. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
