Archive for the ‘Management’ Category

Can Amazon Upskill Higher Education? A Beta Test

Amazon Prime Day came and went on July 15th, and by most accounts, it left smiling faces around the globe. But just a few days before this annual shop-a-thon, Amazon announced a gift of its own: a pledge to spend more than $700,000,000 to train and upskill 100,000 employees , about a third of its […]

Market Signals for Research-Based Innovations

Earlier this year, Digital Promise spoke with more than 50 stakeholders across the country to understand the most pervasive challenges facing the current edtech industry. Educators and education leaders, education nonprofit and procurement platform staffers, and edtech product teams shared that they need three things in relation to the edtech marketplace: trustworthy information, common indicators […]

Download Report: SREB Fact Book on Higher Education

The SREB Fact Book on Higher Education is one of the nation’s most comprehensive collections of comparative data on higher education. For decades, state leaders, policymakers, researchers and journalists have used the Fact Book to find accurate, comparable data and learn more about long-term trends. The 2019 Fact Book includes more than 100 tables on data such as […]

Sustainability, Solidarity, and Community in Higher Education

Rebuilding a relationship of trust between higher education institutions and the public they serve—and ensuring the sustainability of higher education itself—requires that we focus our practices and our modes of communicating around building solidarity and community both on campus and across campuses. EDUCAUSE Review  

Ending Tuition Unfairness for Online (and Part-Time) Students

Like many public universities in many states, Southern Utah University knows it needs to enroll more students who do not fit its traditional model. That’s not because the university is starving for traditional-age students; Utah fares better in long-term projections of high school graduates than do many other states, and Southern Utah’s overall enrollment grew […]

Download Report: The IT Workforce in Higher Education, 2019: CIOs, DEI, HR, Mentoring, and Salaries

Drawing on survey data from nearly 1,600 IT professionals in higher education, each of the five reports in this series highlights a number of important findings (one for each report shown below) that will be useful for technology and higher education professionals in developing the workforce and advancing their careers. EDUCAUSE

Download Report: GLOBAL QUALITY IN ONLINE, OPEN, FLEXIBLE AND TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED EDUCATION

GLOBAL QUALITY IN ONLINE, OPEN, FLEXIBLE AND TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED EDUCATION This report was developed to provide a platform for development of guidelines for quality in online, open, flexible and technology enhanced education in all regions of the world . The intended audience includes: relevant associations that support quality in online, open, flexible and technology- enhanced […]

A nimble organization and a flexible degree program: A term‐based competency‐based education case study

Anderson University began re‐designing one of its online degrees using competency‐based education principles in 2015, using almost 2 years to develop the curriculum and implementation plans. The model is designed with maximum flexibility, letting students choose their path to competency at each course rather than developing both subscription and term models. In the term‐based model that […]

A University’s Online M.B.A. Is Less Expensive — and Purposely Different

Boston University’s new online business degree is $24,000 for a reason. Unlike on-campus program, it has no electives and is aimed at a different audience. Inside Higher Ed

Georgia’s Largest Online School Rocked by Legal, Tech Trouble

With 10,000 students and $90 million in state funding, the Georgia Cyber Academy should be running at full speed. Instead, it has been hit by legal problems, tech issues and communication problems, leaving parents fuming. Center for Digital Education