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13 septembre 2015

When it comes to academic quality, Europeans show the way

The ConversationBy . Despite the increasing cost of an academic degree, recent studies show substantial percentages of students, even in the most selective US colleges and universities, have failed to demonstrate significant improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing skills over the four years of college. More...

13 septembre 2015

Community of Inquiry: Cognitive Presence

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Debra Beck - Evolllution. One of the three core components of the Community of Inquiry online learning framework, cognitive presence develops around two key concepts: practical inquiry and critical thinking. The steps that we take to engage learners in the latter, and to create learning environments where they develop their own questions and responses in the spirit of the former, all build cognitive presence in our online classrooms. More...

13 septembre 2015

Online Initiative Boosts Access and Differentiation in a Competitive Marketplace

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Pam Shockley-Zalabak - Evolllution. Higher education institutions today are under immense pressure to improve access, provide high-quality educational programming and services, and to ensure that students earn a credential and succeed in their career of choice. This is a tall order and many colleges and universities are looking for new ways to serve students. More...

13 septembre 2015

Overcoming Online Persistence Challenges With The Trojan Café (Part 1)

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Glynn Cavin - Evolllution. Vincent Tinto’s conceptual “Schema for Dropout from College” correlated academic and social engagement with student success and learning. However, several factors make social engagement more difficult for non-traditional, online students. More...

13 septembre 2015

The First in a Crowded Room: How WGU Can Continue to Stand Out in the Competency Era

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Sally Johnstone - Evolllution. Competency-based education, once a peripheral and little-known pathway to a postsecondary credential, burst onto the higher education scene a few years ago and has not disappeared. Leaving claims of “flash-in-the-pan” in the dirt, colleges and universities across the United States have been aggressively launching competency-based programs of their own. More...

13 septembre 2015

Flying a Plane Versus Higher Ed Management: Lessons in Safety and Risk

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Kevin Currie - Evolllution. Many years ago I earned my private pilot’s license and began to fly small planes all around the Northeastern United States. Being a successful pilot is all about studying and planning and then contingency planning. It’s about doing things as safely as possible while experiencing something that is inherently dangerous. More...

13 septembre 2015

Higher Education Reform Is Reliant on Government Bodies

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Thomas Lindsay - Evolllution. As the presidential nomination races for both the Democratic and Republican parties get underway, public higher education has once again emerged as a topic of interest and debate. The role of elected officials in the oversight of higher education is regularly evolving and changing, but today but state and federal government bodies have a great deal of sway in the management of postsecondary institutions. More...

13 septembre 2015

Party Platform Analysis: The Greens

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Alex Usher. So, we’ve been in this ghastly election period for several weeks now, but it’s just starting to get interesting, with parties releasing actual platforms.  I’ll be putting together briefs on each of the parties as they come out, starting today.
Let’s start with the Green Party, which is the first to have released a complete platform.  This platform is slimmer than the sprawling 185-page monstrosity the Party had up on its website for the first weeks of the campaign, and which contained all sorts of fun stuff, like family policy that had been outsourced to Fathers 4 Justice.  It’s slicker, and presumably represents what the party thinks are the most salable bits of their full-range of endorsed policies. More...

13 septembre 2015

Improving the Discourse on Skills and Education

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "higheredstrategy.com logo"By Alex Usher. Recently, I did a fascinating set of roundtable discussions with employers and employer associations, and it brought home to me how one-dimensional much of our talk is regarding skills.
Broadly speaking, there are four sets of skills employers care about.  The first are job- or occupation-related skills: can a mechanic actually fix a car? Can an architect design buildings? And so on. More...

13 septembre 2015

The Growth of Administration (Part 2)

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "higheredstrategy.com logo"By Alex Usher. In yesterday’s blog, I ended on the observation that over the period 2000-2012 at the 12 major universities where we have data (UBC, SFU, Alberta, Calgary, USask, Manitoba, Carleton, York, Toronto, Waterloo, Western, and Memorial) the rate of growth of support staff and administration was 16% faster than the rate of growth of academic staff. More...

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