Top 10 IT Issues, 2019: The Student Genome Project
The EDUCAUSE 2019 Top 10 IT Issues are focused on organizing, standardizing, and safeguarding data so that we can utilize it to address our most pressing priority: student success. EDUCAUSE Review
Posts Tagged ‘Educational Systems’
Building the digital future of education
The use of technology to improve the standard of and access to education has become ubiquitous across the sector. Although universities and educational institutions have moved away from a reliance on physical textbook and resource, they shouldn’t stop at going paperless. It’s essential that they are ambitious and keep their fingers on the pulse when […]
Is your college part of the the 21st Century Skills Badges initiative?
The 21st Century Skills Badges initiative, from Education Design Lab, is based on three years of research, design, and pilots and offers a suite of eight digital badges, often called microcredentials, along with a facilitator’s toolkit, to help educators and employers understand the skills students have cultivated. Education Design Lab partnered with 12 universities and […]
Small Liberal Arts Colleges Are Sharing Online Courses
When Nathan Schertz, a 21-year old student at Eureka College, hit some relationship troubles last year that distracted him from his studies, his grades slipped. And he found himself needing to make up credits fast to stay on track academically. So the college offered him the chance to retake one of the course subjects online […]
Download Report
In this brief, I show that master’s programs enroll a more diverse set of students than ever and offera more diverse set of program fields. Master’s programs are also increasingly online, with more than 50 percent of master’s students reporting at least some online coursework in 2015–16. Although master’sdegrees are more popular and more readily […]
Exploring Initiatives for Open Educational Practices at an Australian and a Brazilian University
This paper explores some key developments in Open Educational Practices (OEP) in higher education in Australia and in Brazil. More specifically, it focuses on the analysis of two individual universities: the University of Tasmania, in Australia; and the Federal University of Paraná, in Brazil. They are both public and mostly face-to-face universities trying to engage […]
8 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2019
What technologies and trends will have the biggest impact on higher education in the coming year? We asked four university IT leaders to weigh in on the top issues in ed tech and share what they’re seeing both on the horizon and in their own institutions. Here’s what they told us. Campus Technology
Download Report: DOES ONLINE EDUCATION LIVE UP TO ITS PROMISE? A LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FEDERAL POLICY
Technology has the potential to increase access to education, enhance learning experiences, and reduce the cost of providing high-quality postsecondary education. However, despite the explosive growth of online education, which has been disproportionately large in the for-profit sector, our review of the evidence shows that this potential has not been realized. Instead, on average fully […]
Takedown of Online Education
Online education has not lived up to its potential, according to a new report, which said fully online course work contributes to socioeconomic and racial achievement gaps while failing to be more affordable than traditional courses. The report aims to make a research-driven case discouraging federal policy makers from pulling back on consumer protections in […]
A Class Registration Bot Backfires
Registering for college classes can be a frustrating and stressful process for students. Many colleges and universities operate a “first come, first served” enrollment system that means latecomers for in-demand classes will either have to wait until the next time the course is offered or hope other enrolled students drop the class and free up […]
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