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Unpacking A Vision for the Future with the 2018 NMC Horizon Report
Noreen Barajas-Murphy | Interim Director of Academic Community Programs, EDUCAUSEIn August, EDUCAUSE released the 2018 NMC Horizon Report, which identifies and describes the higher education trends, challenges and developments in educational technology which are likely to have an impact…
Improving Access and Cutting Red Tape: How SARA Is Reducing Bureaucratic Hurdles to Distance Education
Marshall Hill | Executive Director, National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA)In our country, both K-12 and postsecondary education are largely under the oversight and control of the states. And while states generally oversee education with similar broad goals, policies and…
Making the Most of Limited Time: How to Improve Persistence Rates of Part-Time Students
Christina Hubbard | Director of Strategic Research, EABAs a result of higher education’s push to improve accessibility, a broader and more diverse student population is enrolling than ever before. Rather than fully committed 18-year-olds fresh out of…
Designing a Mechanism to Assess CBE Quality
Charla Long | Executive Director, Competency-Based Education NetworkThough it’s not a new concept, there has been significant growth in recent years in the number of competency-based education (CBE) programs offered at colleges and universities across the United…
Just-in-Time Education: Student Expectations in a Digital World
Edward W. Finn III | Liaison for Innovation and Collaboration in Teaching and Learning, Associated Colleges of the MidwestA while back, I received a package from Amazon in the mail and realized that I had misread the description. Within 10 minutes, I had a new shipping label, return…
The Future of Institutional Research: An Aspirational Model
Christine Keller | Executive Director, Association for Institutional ResearchHigher education in the United States is undergoing a transformation from a system centered on institutions to one centered on students. This shift requires colleges and universities to rethink their…
Can Students and Higher Education Strike a Grand Bargain?
Gordon Freedman | President, National Laboratory for Education TransformationTransforming Higher Education Will Require a Grand Bargain The National Laboratory for Education Transformation is dedicated to modernizing critical processes in higher education for the benefit of both institutions and…