Post-Secondary
Post-secondary is a shifting space — four year degrees may not always be the fit and new alternatives are being created at an alarming rate. This topic encompasses everything from higher ed to adult learning and workforce pipelines and development.
Cyber Peer-led Team Learning
In "peer-led team learning," groups of undergraduate college students works together in small groups (six to eight students) to solve problems with the help of a "peer leader" -- an undergraduate competent in the course content as well as group facilitation. This group work compliments traditional class lectures, but does not replace it. Research from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) explored a model of online peer-led team learning ("PLTL") using connectivity tools (such as Adobe Connect) to engage students during synchronous online sessions.
Getting Kids to the Colleges They Deserve
Ustrive, now in beta, "is like eHarmony for admissions instead of dating," said Carter, "It tells students where they are likely to get in and graduate."
The Campus of the Future: Hybrid and Lean
The campus of the future will clearly still play an essential role in academic life, though it will likely transform into a more hands-on and social place than today. Which of these options do you predict for the future of education?
Minerva: Better & Cheaper HigherEd
Ben founded Minerva Project and has pulled together an extraordinary team to deliver a world class education for $10k per year--to beat the Ivy's on cost and quality.
Udemy Is Launching an Android App
"Our suite of mobile apps puts us closer than ever to realizing our vision that anyone, anywhere can learn anything."
A New Year’s Resolution We Can All Achieve: Failure
As you begin thinking about your New Year’s resolutions, I encourage you to consider taking up failure as chief among them. Don’t always play it safe. Expect to fail and know that with each successive failure you get better at the very thing you’re trying to innovate.
Florida Virtual School Prepares Online Teachers with New Course
This new course will first be offered to current FLVS teachers but, by summer, will also open to the public. The students will have a choice to be online certified through Post University or be Florida Virtual certified.
Infographic: The State of Digital Education
See how much has changed in just three short years in our post, Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World- 2013 Update. Also, see the inforgraphic below from Knewton capturing the incredible growth and current state of digital education today.
The Benefits of Blogging as a Learning Tool, Part 2
Here are a few other key benefits of student blogging as a tool for learning in higher ed.
The Benefits of Blogging as a Learning Tool, Part 1
Helping students with their future professional prospects should be a pretty strong argument in favor of bringing blogging into the classroom, but blogging offers a number of added benefits to the learning process.