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17 août 2015

The Tightrope Walk: Defining and Serving Our Key Stakeholders

By Nancy Salzman - Evolllution. Who are you answering to? A university board, the provost, your team as individuals and a unit, other schools or units within your institution, local employers, workforce investment boards, Department of Education, your students, your prospective students. You can probably continue this list to include several others. More...

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17 août 2015

Partnerships and Service: Keys to Differentiation in a New Marketplace

By Michael Hartmann - Evolllution. Establishing pathways to the workforce is becoming a high priority for today’s higher education institutions, and especially professional schools that prepare graduates for success in specific industries. In the corporate world, a skills gap has emerged in the data analytics space. More...

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17 août 2015

Lessons From a For-Profit: SWOT Analyses

By Terry Rawls - Evolllution. In this series we’re exploring the lessons that traditional institutions and successful for-profit institutions can share with each other. I’ve had a few requests to take a closer look at a common tool called a SWOT, to see how it can be used in higher education. So here we go. More...

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17 août 2015

Book review: Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds

By Tony Bates. However, this doesn’t quite capture for me what the book is really about, so I will discuss a little more closely below some of the themes addressed by individual chapters.
As a point of clarification, I will use the term ‘immersive environments’ as a shorthand to describe simulations, games and virtual reality, a point I will come back to in my comments at the end of this post. More...

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17 août 2015

Who are your online students?

By Tony Bates. This is a very brief summary of a 53 page report packed with data, which I strongly recommend reading in full, especially if you are involved with marketing or planning online programs or courses, but here is a brief tasting menu:
1. Competition for online students is increasing
Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (2015) show that college enrollments [in the USA] declined by close to 2%, yielding 18.6 million college students today. About 5.5 million of these students are studying partially or fully online. At the same time, competition for these online students is increasing. Between 2012 and 2013, 421 institutions launched online programs for the first time, an increase of 23% to 2,250 institutions. More...

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17 août 2015

The OBR responds to HEPI on student numbers

In mid-July, I blogged on the seemingly ever-changing forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (or OBR) on future student numbers, which can be read here.
The OBR has treated that blog as a formal ‘request for further detail’. I wholeheartedly welcome their willingness to respond to my comments and their response can be read here: http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/wordpress/docs/Student-numbers-July-2015-Economic-and-fiscal-outlook.pdf.
But, while their clarification is welcome, it ignores the point that it would make sense for the OBR to start considering evidence from abroad (particularly Australia) when assessing the potential impact of the removal of student number controls on future student numbers, as well as to talk to higher education institutions about their current plans for the future. More...

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17 août 2015

Reuters: Instructure has filed for IPO later this year

By Phil Hill. Reuters is on a breaking news roll lately with ed tech. This time it is about Instructure filing for an initial public offering (IPO).
Instructure is planning an initial public offering later this year that could value the education software company at $500 million to $800 million, according to people familiar with the matter. More...

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17 août 2015

ED and CBE: Example of higher ed “structural barrier to change” that is out of institutions’ control

By Phil Hill. There has been a great conversation going on in the comments to my recent post “Universities As Innovators That Have Difficulty Adopting Their Own Changes” on too many relevant issues to summarize (really, go read the ongoing comment thread). They mostly center on the institution and faculty reward system, yet those are not the only sources of structural barriers to change that lead institutions to this “difficulty adopting their own changes”. More...

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17 août 2015

Online Teaching Conference (#CCCOTC15) Keynote

By Phil Hill. Back in June I had the pleasure of giving the keynote at the Online Teaching Conference (#CCCOTC15) in San Diego, put on by the California Community College system. There was quite a bit of valuable backchannel discussions as well as sharing of the slides. The theme of the talk was: Emerging Trends in Online / Hybrid Education and Implications for Faculty. More...

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17 août 2015

Universities As Innovators That Have Difficulty Adopting Their Own Changes

By Phil Hill. George Siemens made an excellent point in his recent blog post after his White House meeting.

I’m getting exceptionally irritated with the narrative of higher education is broken and universities haven’t changed. This is one of the most inaccurate pieces of @#%$ floating around in the “disrupt and transform” learning crowd. Universities are exceptional at innovating and changing.

While I agree with his primary point about false narratives with simplistic no-change assumptions, I think there is a risk about going too far the other direction. More...

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