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28 septembre 2014

Asia leads QS ranking of top 50 universities under 50

Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, or NTU, overtook Hong Kong University of Science and Technology into first place in the new QS ranking of the world’s top 50 universities under 50 years old. There were 25 countries with at least one university in the ranking, and with 10 places, Australia had the most excellent young universities. Read more...
28 septembre 2014

Student success a priority, but HE has funding fears

By Jane Marshall. In the wake of criticism from university presidents over lack of resources, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the new national education, higher education and research minister, and Geneviève Fioraso, secretary of state for higher education and research, defended their budget and promised priority for ensuring student success during the academic year that is just beginning. Read more...
28 septembre 2014

Huge growth in eLearning in Asia, market report says

By Yojana Sharma. Booming enrolment in online higher education, rapid content digitisation, the rollout of national online education networks and teacher shortages in rapidly developing countries have led to huge demand for eLearning products, according to a just-released market research report on eLearning. Read more...
28 septembre 2014

Rentrée universitaire : les principaux objectifs du ministère

VousNousIlsPar Fériel Boudjelal. Mercredi 24 sep­tembre s'est tenue la confé­rence de ren­trée uni­ver­si­taire 2014/2015. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem et Geneviève Fioraso en ont pré­senté les prin­ci­paux objectifs.
Le fil conduc­teur de cette ren­trée est "la réus­site du plus grand nombre" et "l'attractivité de l'enseignement supé­rieur fran­çais", a déclaré ce mer­credi 24 sep­tembre Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, ministre de l'Enseignement supé­rieur et de la Recherche, lors de la confé­rence de presse de ren­trée uni­ver­si­taire 2014/2015. Suite de l'article...
28 septembre 2014

The democratisation of learning

HomeWhen John Riggle arrived at a critical juncture in his education career and decided that a master’s degree would prove invaluable, he couldn’t find the programme he needed in his home country of the Virgin Islands. Mr Riggle, who had lived and worked in the country as a high school English and film teacher for 20 years, found himself with a dilemma many professionals face: he didn’t want to leave his job to pursue an advanced degree.
After investigating several online programmes, he settled on West Texas A&M’s long-distance degree programme in Instructional Design and Technology for education. This innovative programme allows him to keep his job, while also pursuing a degree in his spare time. More...

28 septembre 2014

Three Roadblocks to Creating a Competency-Based Program (Part 1)

The EvoLLLutionBy  - EvoLLLution. Competency-based education is such an intuitive and appealing concept that once we consider it, we start wondering, “Why did we wait so long?”
In competency-based education, students earn a degree upon demonstrating competency in their chosen field of study rather than upon spending 120 credit hours in school. More...

28 septembre 2014

How the Changing Non-Traditional Marketplace is Forcing Universities to Make Tough Decisions

The EvoLLLutionBy  - EvoLLLution. We believe our greatest advantage is the quality product we offer. We’re also aware that this needs to continue to evolve, we need to innovate, we need to bring in new technologies, analytics, competency-based education, to be constantly improving the education we provide our working adults. To do that we need to generate revenues to invest in improving that quality. The only way [to do this], given that we get very little state support, is to invest in the always-evolving academic programs we offer. The only way we can generate those revenues is by growing. More...

28 septembre 2014

Students are Customers Whether We Want to Admit it or Not (Part 2)

The EvoLLLutionBy  - EvoLLLution. 3. Payment
Students are customers as defined by their options for paying for education, and the expectation of a quality service in response to that payment. In the K-12 system, the costs of the service (teaching and operations of the school) largely go unnoticed to the primary consumer (the K-12 students and their parents). However, the costs of higher education are readily known and available to the students, and the method of payment then becomes a choice. More...

28 septembre 2014

Credit Inflation Creates Significant Challenges for Those Without Higher Ed

The EvoLLLutionBy  - EvoLLLution. Every time a new study comes out regarding the “payoff” from college, I wonder: Will this finally be the one that takes note of widespread underemployment among recent grads and comprehends the impact of credential inflation? More...

28 septembre 2014

The Ice Bucket Challenge and Other Phenomena: Four Ways Higher Ed Marketers Can Leverage Different Disciplines (Part 2)

The EvoLLLutionBy  - EvoLLLution. Understanding how our minds work can be a critical factor in the success of a marketing or branding campaign. The growing popularity about the connection between marketing and neuroscience has resulted in the creation of a new field called neuromarketing. A simple understanding of how our minds respond to marketing stimuli can provide a huge potential for marketers to understand consumer behavior and decision making in ways never before explored. More...

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