By Steve Christensen. By becoming more strategic, extended campuses can go a long way to overcoming obstacles to success, driving enrollment and supporting their main campus in a number of ways. More...
Emerging Trends: The Role of the Chief Data Officer in Higher Ed
By Sally Beatty. Higher education institutions are drowning in data. As technology has enabled immense amounts of data to be collected and stored, it has created significant challenges for many institutions. More...
Applied Technology Colleges: Driving Workforce Development and Economic Growth
By David Pistner. Applied technology colleges need to go above and beyond when it comes to workforce preparedness, as local employers and the regional economy is dependent on their success. More...
It’s Time to Prioritize Investment and Support for Adult Education, Literacy and ESL
By Lori Sundberg. Without investment in basic education providing the baseline skills needed for individuals to find work, the American workforce will remain undermanned and underskilled. More...
Five Strategies to Deliver Quality Programs to Professional Students
By Amy Levine. Working adults have a different set of priorities when it comes to their postsecondary experience and universities need to be able to meet those expectations to serve them. More...
A CBE Overview: The Recent History of CBE
By A. Sasha Thackaberry. Competency-based education emerged as a mechanism to create pathways to degree completion for mainly non-traditional students who couldn’t invest the time and resources into a traditional, full-time, face-to-face program. More...
Transforming Performance-Based Funding to Celebrate Institutional Differences
By Sally McRorie. Many proponents of improved innovation and accountability in higher education bang the drum loudly when it comes to the adoption of performance-based funding. However, the short-term factors measured by many funding mechanisms may lead to unforeseen changes that diminish the diversity of public higher education. More...
The Seven Most Important Changes Community Colleges Can Make To Close California’s Skills Gap
By Van Ton-Quinlivan. The skills gap is the biggest hurdle to economic prosperity for unemployed individuals across the United States, but there are some very specific changes two-year colleges could make to help minimize the gap and improve completion and employment rates in their regions. More...
Five Reasons To Expand Your Higher Ed Online Marketing Beyond Google Paid Search
By Johnna Weary. As competition and revenue goals in the higher ed market continue to escalate, it becomes increasingly important to find cost-effective ways of getting your programs in front of the right people. The non-traditional student, in particular, is doing more research and taking more time to decide, demonstrated by later and later enrollments each year in both credit and non-credit programs. More...
Lessons from an International e-Learning Project
This paper offers a critical examination of an e-learning project in the context of a Distance Education training program delivered to teacher trainers in Rwanda. In examining the successes and failures of the project, it uses a framework based on ideas promulgated by Moore (1995) and strives to provide guidance and reference for future projects in this field. More...