7 higher education trends to watch in 2020

Higher education made a striking number of headlines in 2019, in part due to the Varsity Blues scandal that exposed the seedier aspects of college admissions and attracted nationwide attention for its celebrity perpetrators. But last year brought other changes and controversies to higher ed. Conversations about how to keep struggling small colleges alive have resulted […]

January 19, 2020 | Daily News, Ethics, Higher Education, Policy

Assessment and Quality: The Never-ending Challenge

Higher education has relied on assessments of learning for generations. The SAT, ACT, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT and GRE ostensibly test fitness for study. Licensure exam results in fields such as nursing, law and accounting are touted as a way to assess the quality of institutions. Programmatic accreditors expect external validation of learning (e.g., Accreditation Council […]

January 19, 2020 | Accreditation, Daily News, Higher Education, Policy, Quality Assurance

The Role of Service Quality Management in Students’ Re-Enrollment

The students’ re-enrollment can reflect as one of the indications of an educational institution’s service quality and student loyalty. The re-enrollment is identified by the condition that students enrolled in one semester would re-enroll in the next immediate semester. The main concern of this article is that there are many interrelated variables affecting students’ re-enrollment. […]

January 19, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Learner Support Services, Quality Assurance, Research

Patterns in students’ usage of lecture recordings: a cluster analysis of self-report data

Students’ usage of lecture recordings can be characterised by usage frequency, repetitiveness and selectivity in watching, lecture attendance, and social context and location in which students watch the lecture recordings. At the University of Münster (Germany), the lecture recording service was evaluated over three semesters. The data were combined and used for a cluster analysis […]

January 19, 2020 | Daily News, Elearning, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Research, Telecommunication, Video Technology

Doctoral Students’ Learning Success in Online-Based Leadership Programs: Intersection with Technological and Relational Factors

This study examines how technological and relational factors independently and interactively predict the perceived learning success of doctoral students enrolled in online-based leadership programs offered in the United States. The 73-item Online Learning Success Scale (OLSS) was constructed, based on existing instruments, and administered online to collect self-reported data on three primary variables: student learning […]

January 19, 2020 | Assessment, Daily News, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Leadership Professional Development, Learners

How to create meaningful learning experiences in an online environment: components from coding student reflections

This paper examines the learning experiences using student reflections. Data collection was carried out by prompting undergraduate students to reflect on their worst and best experiences, accomplishments, and what they learned through online collaborative activities. The theoretical framework used to explore these experiences was the Community of Inquiry model, which claims the optimal learning experience […]

January 19, 2020 | Assessment, Daily News, Elearning, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Research

When the Competency Model Breaks Down: How to Map Skills to Roles

By now, most of us have caught on to the idea that talking about skills is cool, and many companies are simply replacing the word learning with skills. While this idea is taking over the L&D world, many professionals are facing challenges in reconciling this idea with their companies’ pre-existing competency models. The problem with […]

January 19, 2020 | Business, Competency Based Education, Daily News, Talent Management, Upskilling

Deep Learning: The Impact on Future eLearning

eLearning as technology becomes more affordable in higher education but having a big barrier in the cost of developing its resources. Deep learning using artificial intelligence continues to become more and more popular and having impacts on many areas of eLearning. It offers online learners of the future with intuitive algorithms and automated delivery of […]

January 19, 2020 | Daily News, Elearning, Higher Education, Research

The effects of online and blended experience on outcomes in a blended learning environment

Outcomes in a blended course in business and economic statistics are assessed within the context of students’ previous experience with online and blended courses. Experience with class formats that rely heavily upon online materials may translate into improved outcomes in subsequent blended courses. We explore whether any significant gains accrue to students due to previous […]

January 19, 2020 | Blended Learning, Daily News, Elearning, Higher Education, Instructional Design

2019 Was a Pivotal Year for the Degree

A recent New York Times article examined the need for the “60-year curriculum” at a time when people are living and working longer. As workers move across jobs and careers, they will constantly need new skills — over many decades — to remain employable. This pace of change, fueled by globalization and technology, is fundamentally […]

January 19, 2020 | 60-Year Curriculum, Business, Daily News, Employment, Higher Education, Learners