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Bryan D. Albrecht | President and Chief Executive Officer, Gateway Technical CollegeIn a world where technology influences nearly every aspect of our life’s work, it is imperative that we educate through a perspective of technology and innovation. Gateway Technical College was…
Scale Requires Networking: How Institutions Can Ensure Their Online Offerings Are Up to Scratch
Eric Fredericksen | Associate Vice President for Online Learning and Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, University of RochesterAdoption and offering of online programming is on the rise at postsecondary institutions across the United States and Canada, it’s continued growth being driven by a number of trends coming…
The Essential Employability Qualities Certification: Assuring Graduates Are Prepared for the 21st Century Workforce
Melanie Booth | Executive Director, The Quality Assurance Commons for Higher and Postsecondary EducationPreparing learners for employment has become an expected outcome of higher and postsecondary educational programs, regardless of discipline or degree level. Yet surveys and studies continually reveal a growing divide…
Beyond Vocational: Adult Education Confronts the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Tommy Perkins | Vice President of Marketing, AboundAdvanced applications for big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence can take us to new heights, or plunge us into a dystopian future where robots absorb jobs, unemployment soars and…
Mapping the Trends on Our Doorstep: The Pace of Change Has Changed
Daniel Christian | Chief Learning Architect, Learning from the Living [Class] RoomThis article has been adapted from a video presentation by Daniel Christian. For many years now, I’ve been pulse-checking a variety of landscapes—scanning for emerging technologies, trends, and tools that…
Supporting Soft and Technical Skill Development: The Role of Postsecondary Institutions in Delivering Balanced Ongoing Education
PK Agarwal | Regional Dean and CEO, Northeastern University-Silicon ValleyThere are higher expectations on employees in today’s labor market than ever before. Employers expect their employees to engage in continuous, lifelong learning simply to remain on top of the…
Putting Students First Isn’t Rocket Science: Hitting Refresh on Scholarship Management
Ken Downs | Manager of ScholarshipUniverse, University of Arizona“If you build it, they will come.” From the 1989 American fantasy-sports drama Field of Dreams, today that quote has its own meme (in fact, its own meme generator). And…
Mission "Impossible": Building Relationships with Online Students
Cindy Miller | Kansas City Campus Director, Columbia CollegeThe goal of every postsecondary institution is to educate its students. In order to do that with an online population though, the primary focus must first be relationship building. Student…