Colleges Can Still Save Themselves. Here's How. - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 37 views
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disruption that technology has inflicted on the retail sector over the past decade is often used to illustrate what is about to happen in higher education.
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institutions rarely introduce the sometimes radical changes they need to make, because one group of constituents believes the sky will fall tomorrow anyway, while others refuse to acknowledge that this time is different.
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question is whether institutions will quicken their pace of change to lower their costs and better serve the changing educational needs of students and the global economy.
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moving away from a one-size-fits-all system, in which students largely follow the same calendar and curriculum on their way to collecting 120 credits for a bachelor's degree
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Now the data exist to track students, the classes they took, how they performed, and their outcomes after graduation—all of which can inform decisions.