Education Dive: Video Can Work Around the Unexpected in Higher Ed
Today's Education Dive has a nice synopsis (with additional sources, check those out as well) on how incorporating video - presumably both live and recorded - can help with maintaining access to learning materials due to unexpected disruptions. In particular, the...
Education Dive: Dashboards could provide boost for struggling students
Today's Education Dive covers a study performed by the University of Michigan (sponsored by Blackboard) looking at the use of dashboards and metrics by college students. One of the central questions studied was whether presenting data to students at certain points in...
Inside Higher Ed: Midcareer Professors Need Love, Too
Preliminary research being presented today at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) annual meeting shows that tenured faculty have a tendency to get lost at institutions. From one of the investigators: “It seemed pretty ironic that there...
Education Dive: Some for-profit students outperform peers from traditional institutions
Education Dive covers a recent report by the Council for Aid to Education which used it's Collegiate Learning Assessment tool to answer two questions: Do students who attend proprietary institutions achieve student learning outcomes similar to comparable students who...
Building an App Store for Learning Tools
We've heard a lot of rumbling on campuses across the country - for a number of years now - relating to the broken price to value equation for learning management systems. Part of this is frustration by customers of the many acquired companies by Blackboard but there...
Education Dive: Higher ed seeking new ways to spur interest and access to workforce development
Career preparedness amongst college students has been a longstanding topic of conversation. We're now seeing institutions take steps to address the gaps between material learned in college and knowledge required for smooth and successful entrance to the workforce. The...
65 Percent of Faculty Feel They Have Adequate IT Training and Support…Their Students, Not So Much
Campus Technology's 2016 Teaching With Technology study is out and the report contains a few noteworthy observations (as always the link the to the primary source is below): 79% of faculty are absolutely / very confident in their technology skills 61% of faculty rate...
Trending to Zero: The Lasting Impact of Total State Disinvestment from Public Higher Education
No, your eyes aren't fooling you, we're witnessing an unprecedented rotation away from public higher education - one that has only gathered steam since The Great Recession. Setting aside political rhetoric around "free" college, this is what's actually been occurring....
College Students: ‘Please Personalize My Learning’
Campus Technology covers a recent report by a large publishing company summarizing the results of a recent student survey (all of whom have used the publisher's digital tools) about attitudes and perceptions towards using digital learning technology. Sampling bias...
Campus Tech: 55 Pct of Faculty Are Flipping The Classroom
Campus Technology's 2016 Teaching with Technology survey (524 respondents with an average of 21 years teaching) shows that college classrooms have now crossed over to becoming significantly technology-aided with only 19% of courses still being exclusively face-to-face...