the "4 Rs" that have emerged as the dominant metrics in higher education:
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in title, tags, annotations or urlData, Technology, and the Great Unbundling of Higher Education | EDUCAUSE - 2 views
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as Purdue University President Mitch Daniels has said: "Higher education has to get past the 'take our word for it' era. Increasingly, people aren't."2
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the market is no longer viewing the 4 Rs as proxies of excellence.
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Underserved and overburdened, transfer students face an uphill battle to earn their degrees - The Hechinger Report - 0 views
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37 percent of all students who began college in 2008 have transferred institutions at some point. Nearly half of transfer students transfer more than once.
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At ASU, our university, nearly 13,500 transfer students enrolled in fall 2014 and spring 2015 semesters, outnumbering first-time freshmen by more than 2,000. These transfer numbers are likely to explode in coming years, with profound consequences for students and universities alike.
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Today, more than one-third of college students are 25 or older. Only 14 percent of college students are residential students, and 46 percent are part-time college students.
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7 competency-based higher ed programs to keep an eye on | Education Dive - 0 views
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ompetency-based education, also known as direct assessment learning, is a sometimes-controversial model that has gained ground in recent months.
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Advocates say competency-based ed puts the focus on students’ capabilities rather than how many hours per week they spend in the classroom. The benefit for employers, they say, is that prospective employees can be judged more easily, based on their demonstrated competencies rather than guessing how their grades will translate to real-world work. By
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In September, an audit by the department’s Office of Inspector General found that the department was not adequately addressing the risks posed by competency-based/direct assessment programs, increasing the likelihood that schools would create programs that didn’t meet criteria to receive Title IV federal financial aid.
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Competency-based education gets a boost from the Education Department @insidehighered - 0 views
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On Tuesday the department announced a new round of its “experimental sites” initiative, which waives certain rules for federal aid programs so institutions can test new approaches without losing their aid eligibility. Many colleges may ramp up their experiments with competency-based programs -- and sources said more than 350 institutions currently offer or are seeking to create such degree tracks.
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the federal program could help lay the groundwork for regulation and legislation that is better-suited to competency-based learning.
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Supporters of competency-based education called the experimental sites announcement a big win.
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UW-Extension dean: Flexibility critical in serving nontraditional learners | Education Dive - 2 views
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David Schejba
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dean of continuing education, outreach and e-learning at the University of Wisconsin-Extension
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his career has been driven by a desire to make education flexible, affordable and accessible for working adults, some of whom have degrees and are looking for new skills, some of whom have no prior postsecondary experience, but all of whom have real commitments outside of schooling
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