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.
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Strive for College Recognized as CNN Hero
As a college freshman, Michael Carter realized that many students had survived a more circuitous route to college than he had. He did some digging and found out that many prepared low income students don't enroll in four year college.
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How Online Learning Prepared Me for University Life
Choice is a basic fiber of Western Civilization. Today, a growing number of students and parents when given a choice are leaning towards virtual learning experiences rather than the more traditional options. As a graduate of an online public school and a current member of the class of 2014 at the University of Washington, I have spent some time reflecting on the ways I benefited from having the option to attend an online school and the unique ways it prepared me for college.
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Mass Community Colleges Focus on Employability
The 15 Massachusetts community colleges participating in the Massachusetts Community Colleges & Workforce Development Transformation Agenda (MCCWDTA) are making notable progress on improving rapid pathways to high wage jobs. The awkwardly named project is funded by a three-year, $20 million grant from the U.S.
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New Ideas On What Colleges Want to See Out of Prospects
We all remember the students from our own graduating classes who did it all. Their GPAs were at the top of the class, or very near to it. They might have played two or three different sports, and served as captain in one or two of them. They were members of two or three clubs, with a leadership position in student government or National Honor Society. They were the ones who we viewed as “well rounded,” likely to get into a highly selective college.
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MSOE: An Example of Education for Employability
The Milwaukee School of Engineering experience is a pretty good example of “rigor, relevance, and relationships” (as my friends from Big Picture would say). Their commitment to employability is as strong as any campus that I’ve visited. It’s a place that seems to be asking the right questions about what’s next. Unemployment rates would be lower and economic growth rates would be higher if every city had an urban jobs engine like MSOE.
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Hype vs. Hope: San Jose State + Udacity vs. Linn State Technical College
While it would be a stupendous achievement if Udacity and other MOOC providers are able to develop and deploy a model that can successfully remediate math and reading at scale, we need to step back and look at the bigger picture: A more powerful (and much more realistic) achievement would be to put society’s needs and judgments ahead of those of higher education institutions, and focus on propagating proven programs that prepare students for profitable employment and a life of learning.
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Classroom Management: The Advantage of Structured Learning in Entrepreneurship
Here’s a novel concept for you: Entrepreneurs can learn from other entrepreneurs in an accredited capacity. When striking out on one’s own, it’s an established practice to seek the advice of those who’ve been there before and have made a success of it. So it makes perfect sense that business students, paying and working hard for an education, would greatly benefit from the insight that successful businesspeople can bestow.
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How Active, Digital Learning Fosters Business Skills in Students
The array of social technologies open a wide swath of possibilities for active learning, particularly in the online and blended teaching space.
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Next-Gen State U
A state policy maker called and asked how a next-gen state university would work. They had spent lots of money with a brand name consultant that had given them predictable advice (create a consortium or start a new institution) and the policy maker had the sense that they weren’t pushing hard enough. Given the pressure for lower costs, better outcomes, and expanded access, there’s a new conversation about further and higher education (as they’d say in the Eurozone).
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Infographic: How Will We Reinvent College?
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), free online universities, and more are disrupting the traditional collegiate experience -- forcing universities and colleges to reinvent the delivery of courses and degrees to remain competitive in the market of higher education. Recently, OnlineUniversities.com shared "15 Ways to Reinvent College."