Tag Archives for Higher Education
New Survey Tracks Online and Distance Education in Canada
Report is a great advance in understanding the enrollments, modes of instruction,technologies, and trends across and within the provinces. Read More
Ohio State collaborates with Apple to launch digital learning initiative
Students, faculty, staff and community to gain access to new educational and economic development opportunities. Read More
Higher education needs a rethink to train tomorrow’s workforce
Today, students go off to college at age 18, spend four to six years there, graduate and go to work, often tens of thousands of dollars in debt. And if they dare to go another route, by postponing or breaking … Continue reading
Watch That Hand: Why Videos May Not Be the Best Medium for Knowledge Retention
From Khan Academy to massive open online courses (better known as MOOCs), digital instructional content is often delivered as videos. Yet Juan Cristobal Castro-Alonso argues that videos may not be the best medium when it comes to helping learners retain … Continue reading
Open Access Research Via Collaborative Educational Blogging: A Case Study from Library & Information Science
This article charts the development of activities for online graduate students in library and information science. Project goals include helping students develop competencies in understanding open access publishing, synthesizing research in the field, and engaging in scholarly communication via collaborative … Continue reading
Commentary: Is private higher education in Singapore a ‘second chance’ option?
The perception that a private degree education is a “second chance” for those not accepted into public universities is prevalent among the general public, including administrators, educators and even private education students themselves. Read More
Why higher education must evolve
The positive response to the SkillsFuture work-study degree programmes indicates a shift in the longstanding tilt towards hallowed qualifications with an academic bent obtained via the traditional route. It’s a plus because the paper chase of the past is out … Continue reading
Digital Literacy in Higher Education, Part IID
The New Media Consotrium (NMC) has released a new strategic brief on Digital Literacy in Higher Education. In this new report, it concludes that simply knowing how to use digital tools will not be enough for the future, and that … Continue reading
Future Forward: The Next Twenty Years of Higher Education
A series of interviews with American higher education leaders. We asked this group of leaders to reflect on the last 20 years of higher education as well as consider what the next 20 years might hold. Forecasting the future is … Continue reading
Libraries and Research: Five Key Themes for Sustainable Innovation in Strategy and Services
The global environment and the impact on Higher Education continues to change rapidly and demonstrates the need to be prepared for the unexpected but also the need to create a compelling vision for the future. Five themes emerge strongly across … Continue reading