The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside are jointly publishing a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers. More...
A new study by the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) reveals the UK’s higher education sector has educated more of the world’s leaders than any other. More...
We are currently facing two civalizational educational challenges. By "civilizational," I mean that they go beyond country- or region-specific challenges. They are unprecedented in the history of humanity. The challenges I'm talking about are universal access to quality education and universal lifelong learning, both which are almost certainly ones that you're well aware of. More...
The problem, in a nutshell, is that the OIG decided that WGU’s unbundled instructor’s role, with multiple staff roles supporting students in a (largely) self-paced environment, does not count as “regular and substantive interaction between students and teachers,” which is a requirement for classification as a distance learning provider. More...
I've been meaning to provide an update on Unizin now that the consortium is three years old (started officially in July 2014). Thanks to public documents from the University of Minnesota, one of the 11 founding members, we now have additional clarity on the ongoing costs to remain a member of Unizin. More...
One issue that almost all observers seem to agree upon is that the Department of Education is unlikely to accept the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG's) recommendations to declare Western Governors University (WGU) a provider of correspondence courses and to force the school to pay back more than $700 million in Title IV funds. More...
The big news this week was the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Education (ED) finding that Western Governors University (WGU) should be considered a correspondence provider instead of a distance education provider, and the school should return more than $700 million in Title IV federal funding programs. More...
Josh Kim wrote a post yesterday at Inside Higher Ed questioning some claims about the LMS market size. More...
Great discussions at #WCET17 conference help clarify how UF Online sheds hubris and continues to transform into growing and healthy online program. More...
In 2011 the University of California laid out plans for a new payroll system called UCPath (for Payroll, Academic Personnel, Timekeeping, and Human Resources). The goal of the $170 million project was to save a reported $100 million per year eventually and to replace a 30-year-old Payroll Personnel System (PPS) that runs separately for each of the 11 UC locations with Oracle’s PeopleSoft payroll and HR systems. More...
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