Distance and Online Learning
The demand for distance and online educational formats is rapidly growing, but this means more than simply changing the way education is delivered. With the growth of online learning, the entire student management infrastructure needs to evolve to ensure these students are being engaged properly.
Square Pegs and Round Holes: Why Success in Online Education Requires a Specific Strategic Approach
Michael Moyes | Associate Dean of Admissions Strategy and Operations, Berklee College of MusicToday’s student demographic is vastly different than the learners colleges and universities were serving in the 90s and early 2000s. Mostly non-traditional learners—meaning they’re either adults, part-time, have taken a…
Seven Steps to Preparing for Online Education
Melissa Venable | Online Education Advisor, HigherEducation.comOnline academic programs are proving to be effective and demand for them is growing. Yet many established institutions have been slow to fully embrace online education. It takes time and money…
Online and Digital Education: Enhancing Access to Higher Education in the 21st Century
Vistasp Karbhari | President, The University of Texas at Arlington“We shall have done something to enable the farmer to raise two blades of grass instead of one; something for every owner of land; something for all who desire to…
Using Analytics to Drive Online Retention and Success
Philip DiSalvio | Dean of the College of Advancing and Professional Studies, University of Massachusetts BostonObservers and leaders across the higher education space have been saying for years that the status quo no longer works when it comes to institutional management and student success. While…
Online Learning: The New Strategic Imperative
Thomas Cavanagh | Associate Vice Present of Distributed Learning, University of Central FloridaAt the University of Central Florida, where I work, 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of our institutional online learning initiative. Since 1996, online learning has grown from a few experimental…
Symbiosis: The New Paradigm in Online Education and Training
Charles Dull | Associate Dean of the IT Center of Excellence, Cuyahoga Community College“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” ~ W. Edwards Deming In the quote above, Deming could have been speaking directly to the online learning community. The…
Leveraging Organizational Learning and Best Practices in Online Leadership: Do It, Be It, Know It, Test It, Revise It
Vickie Cook | Director of the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service, University of Illinois SpringfieldMost of us have attended many conference sessions and webinars on best practices within our field of online learning and online leadership. But, how might we leverage what we learn…