Ellen Ullman, Author at eCampus News

May 23, 2019 by Ellen Ullman

In Colorado, digital badging is on the rise. The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) has built badging initiatives around technical math, advanced manufacturing, and healthcare and the badges…

6 tips for reaching adult students

May 20, 2019 by Ellen Ullman

3 older students collaborating at a table with laptops

Lynn Morton, strategy director at digital marketing agency R2i, specializes in working with higher education marketing teams. eCampus News talked with Morton about ways to best target Gen…

Campus Leadership

How can higher-ed better prepare students to enter the workforce?

April 29, 2019 by Ellen Ullman

A handshake with various types of workers embedded in the hands

eCampus News recently spoke with Matthew Glotzbach, chief executive officer of Quizlet—the mega-popular site that offers tools for students to make study sets that can be used for…

Campus Leadership

This technology can help higher ed address students’ mental health

April 15, 2019 by Ellen Ullman

a beautiful watercolor silhouette of a person with the brain and heart in yellow

In 2018, the American Psychological Association found that more than one-third of first-year university students in eight countries reported symptoms consistent with a diagnosable mental health disorder.

IT Leadership

5 reasons why Mott Community College’s mobile app is outstanding

April 8, 2019 by Ellen Ullman

a girl walking with an app pulled up to give her directions

Like most of the higher-ed world, the leaders at Mott Community College in Michigan knew they’d better have a robust mobile app to recruit and retain tech-savvy students…

Classroom Innovation

See how other colleges support active learning

February 21, 2019 by Ellen Ullman

Dawson students in active learning "smart" classroom

At Dawson College in Montreal, Canada, there are three active-learning classrooms that the college calls “smart classrooms.”

Campus Leadership

Here are a few proven ways, some involving edtech, to boost enrollment & retention

February 6, 2019 by Ellen Ullman

A group of college students studying in the quad

Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering is working on an ambitious initiative called 25 by 25, with a goal of almost doubling enrollment to 25,000 students by 2025.

Campus Leadership

10 more higher-ed predictions for 2019

January 10, 2019 by Ellen Ullman

41 predictions weren’t enough, so we asked a handful of additional edtech executives to share their insight about what will happen in 2019. Here’s what they had to say.

Campus Leadership

41 edtech predictions for higher ed in 2019

January 1, 2019 by Ellen Ullman

We asked 20 edtech executives to look into their crystal balls and share their thoughts about what will happen in 2019. In addition to the usual suspects—artificial intelligence…

Campus Leadership

Would you like to expand your mind and live more deliberately?

November 30, 2018 by Ellen Ullman

We’re really excited to introduce you to The Knowledge Project Podcast, which explores ideas that help expand your mind, live deliberately, and master the best of what other…

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