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Campus Leadership

6 revelations on faculty roles within competency-based programs

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When it comes to competency-based programs in today’s myriad array of higher-ed institutions, faculty spend most of their time on curriculum design, and have the most concerns about…
Campus Leadership

Mythbusting admissions: 10 assumptions to reconsider

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While social media channels are well-used by prospective students, it’s actually legacy platforms like email, and institutional websites, that have the most influence over college decision-making.
Campus Leadership

Have universities been looking at STEM data all wrong?

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STEM is often lumped into a broad category of learning with specific fields overlooked in general research. But recent STEM data research into behavioral differences within specific subjects…
Campus Leadership

Higher education agrees: Student graduation takes a village

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From new college rankings to government funding initiatives, higher education is under increasing pressure to prove student outcomes success with graduation rates as an indicator. But at what…
IT Leadership

10 higher education buzzwords and phrases

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For those critics who say education moves at a snail’s pace, they’re wrong…at least when it comes to terminology—and technology-based terminology, especially. From buzzwords to phrases higher-ed speakers…
Campus Leadership

Are online adjunct faculty doing any better than those on campus?

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According to a new report, online adjunct faculty are experiencing many of the same challenges as on-campus adjuncts, mainly because the same policies governing on-campus adjuncts are used…
Campus Leadership

5 major trends in higher education’s use of social media

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If you want to know how other college and universities are using social media today, know this: they’re using it like any other social media-savvy millennial. From a…
IT Leadership

8 characteristics of good online video

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According to a report published in the MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, instructor-generated video can have a positive influence on student satisfaction with, and engagement in,…
IT Leadership

Your .edu site for 2016 looks like this

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Add together social media strategy and digital marketing tactics, sprinkle with interactive design flare, then let rise in the hotbed of a campus community and you’ve got a…
IT Leadership

What does it mean to be an online learning leader?

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If online learning is to succeed as not only as a legitimate option for learning but as a respected platform within an institution, leadership has to build that…