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Education Or Revenue Generation? Revisiting Business Practices in Higher Education
Mark Kretovics | Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration, Kent State UniversityIn 2010, Mark Kretovics published Business Practices in Higher Education: A Guide for Today’s Administrators, a breakthrough guide offering higher education and student affairs professionals an understanding of the fundamental…
The 60 Year Curriculum: Developing New Educational Models to Serve the Agile Labor Market
Chris Dede | Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard UniversityWith the sponsorship of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education (DCE), I’m participating in an initiative centered on The Sixty Year Curriculum (60YC). The Dean of DCE, Hunt Lambert, is leading…
How Student-Centricity and Substantive Interaction Take CBE to the Next Level
Margaret Moodian | Tutorial Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Brandman UniversityMany people often question whether online teaching in a competency-based education (CBE) program can have the same impact on students’ lives as face-to-face teaching or traditional online programs. My answer…
Small Changes, Large Rewards: How Individualized Emails Increase Classroom Performance
Zoë Cohen | Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine Tucson, University of Arizona“No professor has ever cared about me.” This was a sentence in an email I received from a struggling student in my Physiology of the Immune System course, an upper-division…
How to Circumnavigate Common Roadblocks in Changing the Status Quo: Some Guidance from Experimental Psychology
Alexandra Logue | Research Professor in the Center for Advanced Study in Education, CUNYThere is much existing advice on what higher education leaders should do to change the status quo: Find a faculty champion, compromise, wait, etc. Here I provide some other specific…
Tailor Teachers Use Personality Style and Multiple Intelligences to Help Students Thrive
Vaughn Bicehouse | Assistant Professor, Slippery Rock University of PennsylvaniaThose who teach can and do. Students need the doers, they need effective educators who are not only experts in instruction, but also cultivators of student assessment and student learning.…
Education Or Revenue Generation? Revisiting Business Practices in Higher Education
Mark Kretovics | Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration, Kent State UniversityIn 2010, Mark Kretovics published Business Practices in Higher Education: A Guide for Today’s Administrators, a breakthrough guide offering higher education and student affairs professionals an understanding of the fundamental…