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Ich wollte während meiner Promotion erste Schritte ins Berufsleben machen, genauer: in die Wirtschaft. Deshalb schreibe ich meine Dissertation im Rahmen einer Forschungsarbeit für SAP, die größte europäische Firma für Unternehmens-Software. Mit einem Kollegen entwickle ich dort ein Programm zur Social-Media-Analyse. Mehr...
By - . Understanding student demographic factors might help us teach a new generation of learners how to succeed in MOOCs. An important technique for understanding what might really be happening in the world is to avoid being bowled over by stunning numbers. More...
By Meris Stansbury - . By now, most colleges and universities know that providing some type of online program—fully online, MOOCs, or blended learning—is critical to staying current in today’s changing higher ed landscape. But how do you determine your institution’s online readiness, and how can MOOCs work for everyone? More...
By Meris Stansbury - . Competency-based experiments, once buried, get new life and could be huge opportunity for colleges and universities.From badges to skills pathways, more higher ed institutions are not only feeling the pressure to accept, but realizing the benefits of implementing, alternative credentials for a broad range of students. More...
By - . This past spring, we asked readers to give us their top picks for school hardware, software, websites, and services—and more than 1,300 readers responded online.In nominating their favorite products, we asked readers to tell us how they’re using these products to improve teaching, learning, or school administration—and to what effect. We then chose the 50 best responses, which appear alphabetically by product name. More...
By - . Competency based learning, or CBE, has been pushed by educators and lawmakers who want to increase the number of U.S. degree holders by helping nontraditional students — working adults and military veterans among them — turn their professional experience into college credits. More...
By Elizabeth D. Capaldi Phillips - The evolllution. Individual student advising can be improved by the use of data mining and analytics. At Arizona State University (ASU), we developed eAdvisor, a system that requires students to take courses that diagnose likelihood of success in a major early-on so struggling students can be rapidly redirected into a major where they will graduate. More...
By Gretchen M. Reevy and Grace Deason. Nationwide in the United States, 70% of faculty members in higher education are employed off the tenure-track. Nearly all of these non-tenure-track (NTT) appointments share a quality that may produce stress for those who hold them: contingency. Most NTT appointments are contingent on budget, enrollment, or both, and the majority of contingent faculty members are hired for one quarter or semester at a time. More...
By David Leonhardt. The government’s official statistic for college-tuition inflation has become somewhat infamous. It appears frequently in the news media, and policy makers lament what it shows. No wonder: College tuition and fees have risen an astounding 107 percent since 1992, even after adjusting for economywide inflation, according to the measure. Read more...
By Christopher Flavelle. To judge by this summer's banner policy proposals, the most important question for higher-education reform right now is giving students easier access to loans. But evidence from Canada suggests those changes won't address the greater need: Getting more kids from poor families into college, the key to moving up in an increasingly unequal society. In research published last year, a team of American and Canadian economists compared the connection between family income and college or university attendance in the two countries. More...
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