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Jon Breitenbucher

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. "
Jon Breitenbucher

Lessons From Swiss Watch-Makers - 0 views

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    Essay on how colleges could learn from Swiss watch makers
Jon Breitenbucher

on moocs | D'Arcy Norman dot net - 0 views

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    D'Arcy makes an interesting observation about what is driving the MOOC craze.
Jon Breitenbucher

Wellesley and Wesleyan hope MOOCs will inform campus-based teaching | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    We need to formulate a plan for how we want to address MOOCs. We can't ignore them.
Jon Breitenbucher

Essay on the challenges posed by MOOCs to liberal arts colleges | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    A thoughtful essay from the director and associate director of NITLE on the role of MOOCs for small colleges.
Jon Breitenbucher

If We Profs Don't Reform Higher Ed, We'll Be Re-Formed (and we won't like it) | HASTAC - 0 views

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    Some food for thought in here.
Amyaz Moledina

Coursera Takes A Big Step Toward Monetization, Now Lets Students Earn "Verified Certifi... - 0 views

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    The business model is developing.
Jon Breitenbucher

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."
Jon Breitenbucher

Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast Pace | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    More relevant to the Massively Open Online Community courses (MOOCs) being piloted in higher education, a team of researchers from that replacing a physics teacher with lectures from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist nearly doubled test scores [PDF] http://www.um.es/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=c538d7e7-52a4-4f9a-93c7-92ac04c80b06&groupId=115466 
Amyaz Moledina

Study casts doubt on idea that spending more per student leads to better educational ou... - 0 views

  • 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
  • 45 colleges and universities, most of them liberal arts colleges,
  • 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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      The outcomes variables are as per NSSE
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  • Blaich isolated 10 colleges (he said later that most but not all were liberal arts colleges) that had very similar scores on the good practices related to teaching. Their spending per student, however, ranged from $9,225 to $53,521 (with corresponding tuition rates). Others at the high end of per-student spending were at $44,429 and $34,172. Three other colleges, however, were achieving the same educational impact with spending per student of about $15,000
  • suggest that the quality of instruction from part-timers can be just as high as from full-timers, so maybe the issue is finding the best way to hire and retain them. (He suggested full-year contracts over course-by-course.)
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    survey shows that colleges (w.liberal arts in sample) that have more spending per students, part time faculty and higher faculty-student ratios, get similar results on the NSSE score. A NSEE variable is "good teaching with high quality interactions with faculty"
Jon Breitenbucher

CLAY CHRISTENSEN: Higher Education Is 'On The Edge Of The Crevasse' - Business Insider - 0 views

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    "I think higher education is just on the edge of the crevasse. Generally, universities are doing very well financially, so they don't feel from the data that their world is going to collapse. But I think even five years from now these enterprises are going to be in real trouble."
Jon Breitenbucher

Disappearing Liberal Arts Colleges - 0 views

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    Study finds that liberal arts colleges are disappearing
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