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25 novembre 2017

Road-Testing a New Paper

By Matt Reed. Spending on instruction vs. student aid.
A new study suggests that colleges that want to improve their graduation and completion rates would do better to spend more on instruction than on financial aid. More...

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25 novembre 2017

If a Textbook Falls in the Forest...

By Matt Reed. Student reading patterns and OER.
One of the oft-heard objections to Open Educational Resources (OER) is that students retain more information from a printed page than from a screen. Therefore, the argument goes, we shouldn’t sacrifice a superior learning tool to save money. More...

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25 novembre 2017

A Conference for Economically Vulnerable Institutions

By Matt Reed. Focusing on the real challenges.
Josh Kim wrote this week about the possibilities offered by a conference focused on, and starring, economically vulnerable colleges and universities. More...

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25 novembre 2017

Multi-Factor Placement With a Small Admissions Staff

By Matt Reed. At a meeting this week, I saw two articles of faith crash into each other. I’m trying to sort out the pieces. They were:
1. High school GPA and course selection are better predictors of success in college than a single score on a placement test.
2. Hiring more staff (“administrative bloat”) is bad. More...

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25 novembre 2017

The Limits of Collaboration

By Matt Reed. California's plans for an online college.
Apparently, California is mulling creating a statewide online college, and it’s looking at three different models with which to do it. Model 1, which could work, involves designating one community college to be its home. Model 3, which could work, involves creating an entirely new organization. Model 2 involves a consortium. More...

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25 novembre 2017

Across the Class Divide

By Matt Reed. This weekend I took The Boy to Boston, for the first two of what will eventually be several college visits. It was a terrific chance to spend some time with him, even if much of it was necessarily “windshield time,” and we even got to see some old friends while we were there. More...

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25 novembre 2017

Cannibals!

By Matt Reed. Online vs. in-person, or not worrying about the distinction.
I had to smile at news of the report that an internal investigation at GWU has highlighted concerns that online courses are “cannibalizing” classroom courses. More...

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25 novembre 2017

Ask the Administrator: Labeling OER Sections

By Matt Reed. At its core, it’s about disclosure. Students want to, and should, know which sections won’t require them to buy books. That may sound petty, but given the reality of student basic needs that Sara Goldrick-Rab and others have documented, it isn’t. California is many things, but a low cost-of-living state it is not. For a student on the economic margins, the difference between a couple of OER sections and a couple of sections with $200 textbooks could be the difference between staying and dropping out. More...

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25 novembre 2017

Financial Aid for PLA?

By Matt Reed. Adult students often know stuff for which they don’t have academic credit. When they can get transcripted credit for knowledge or skills they can document, they get a head start towards a degree. But giving them credit for what they can document is often a lot harder than it sounds. More...

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25 novembre 2017

Early Friday Fragments

By Matt Reed. As one awful story of sexual harassment or assault after another goes public, I’m just gonna return to this post from 2011. The Boy was unimaginably younger then, but the piece has aged fairly well. More...

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