Beyond Disruption: Higher Ed Innovation from Within | The Blue Review - 0 views
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"I'm not opposed to disruption; rather, I'm skeptical about the kind of disruption start-ups and tech folks promise: "paradigm-shifting" technology that improves university teaching and learning. The truth is, many of these start-ups clearly have no idea what actually works in higher ed and know little about the direction university teaching and learning have moved in the last 10 years, because they're trying to take us backward, not forward. Start-up and commercial tech are certainly proving disruptive-just in all the wrong ways."
Are MOOCs becoming mechanisms for international competition in global higher ed? | Insi... - 0 views
For-Profit Higher Ed and the MOOC Opportunity | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
Colleges should compete on the quality of their product, not price (essay) | Inside Hig... - 0 views
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A very interesting article on the future of higher ed. I found this quote to be particularly interesting. "Colleges and universities have an abundance of intellectual capital; intellectual resources and assets that most companies would love to have in their R&D divisions. Mathematicians, technologists, engineers, designers, marketers, anthropologists -- and the list goes on and on. However, for some reason our collective academic culture does not encourage collaboration across the organization, and from what I hear from some colleagues, it can even be confrontational. Yes, the needs of students, the needs of faulty, and the needs of the administration and staff can create competing priorities. However, for most private institutions, and some public institutions, there is only one need that matters, and that is the need to survive long-term. "
My Idea for Higher Ed Reform: Do Nothing | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
Essay considers whether higher education in the U.S. has peaked | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
Essay on the nature of change in American higher education | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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"America is shifting from a national, analog, industrial economy to a global, digital, information economy. Our social institutions, colleges and universities included, were created for the former. Today they all seem to be broken. They work less well than they once did. Through either repair or replacement - more likely a combination - they need to be refitted for a new age. Higher education underwent this kind of evolution in the past as the United States shifted from an agricultural to an industrial economy. The classical agrarian college, imported from 17th-century England with a curriculum rooted in the Middle Ages, was established to educate a learned clergy to govern the colonies. This model held sway until the early 19th century."
Finally, a Path Toward Solutions to the Crisis in Higher Ed - Next - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views
Value Evolution, Not Just Revolution, in Higher Ed - Next - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 0 views
Study casts doubt on idea that spending more per student leads to better educational ou... - 0 views
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Research presented here by researchers from Wabash College -- and based on national data sets -- finds that there may be a minimal relationship between what colleges spend on education and the quality of the education students receive. Further, the research suggests that colleges that spend a fraction of what others do, and operate with much higher student-faculty ratios and greater use of part-time faculty members, may be succeeding educationally as well as their better-financed (and more prestigious) counterparts
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45 colleges and universities, most of them liberal arts colleges,
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good teaching with high quality interactions with faculty," high expectations and academic challenge, interaction with ideas and people different from one's own, and "deep learning" through characteristics identified by the National Survey of Student Engagement.
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2 Democrats plan legislation to promote competency-based ed and rate colleges | Inside ... - 0 views
The Professors' Big Stage - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Can IT Be the Core of Higher Ed? - Online Universities.com - 0 views
How to Save College | The Awl - 0 views
The Tuition is Too Damn High, Part IV - How important are state higher ed cuts? - 0 views
MOOCs prompt some faculty members to refresh teaching styles | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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"Amid the various influences that massive open online courses have had on higher education in their short life so far -- the topic of a daylong conference here Monday -- this may be among the more unexpected: The courses may be prompting some faculty to pay more attention to their teaching styles than they ever have before." - this was something that administrators from Stanford mentioned in the Educause Learning Initiatives conference when discussing the biggest benefits they had seen from developing MOOCs