University taps students for online brand building success
No one calls. No one writes. Mercifully, only a few still send holiday letters. Instead, digital natives and immigrants alike now head online to share the news of…
Cloud, with a chance of savings and 24/7 uptime
A trifecta of needs—cost savings, business continuity, and disaster-recovery—has prompted Peirce College in Philadelphia to migrate much of its infrastructure to the cloud over the past 18 months.…
Are private sector schools doomed to fail?
Newsworthy failures in proprietary higher education have led to generalizations about the career school sector as a whole. Most think of for-profits as a homogeneous group, but the…
Why you can’t discuss online learning without acknowledging this
With nearly 1 in 5 Americans classified as having a disability, according to the 2010 census, and 13 percent of all public school students receiving special education services,…
3 keys to successful campus branding
In order to survive and thrive in today’s oft-cutthroat student admissions competition, creating a visual identity for your academic institution should be about more than simply adopting a…
This is what corporate-designed curriculum looks like
How companies and organizations are working with higher education institutions and programs to help fill workforce gaps and bolster college ... Read more
Op-Ed: Why innovation-desperate higher ed needs to break its shackles
Outsourcing and technology adoption are booming in higher education, as student demographics change and learning models evolve. There’s an inherent challenge: as the complexity of delivering personalized, student-centered…
Is free college really going to work?
The current hot solution to college affordability: make it free. My colleagues at the Christensen Institute have written fairly extensively on our views on “free college” proposals. Our…
Why is data science so hot right now?
The rising cost of college tuition against the backdrop of a challenging job market brings new meaning to the question “What do you want to be when you…
Northwestern launches digital learning website
Northwestern University has created a new digital learning website to showcase the university’s best practices in online and blended educational innovation to teachers and students on campus, as…