by Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 25, 2018 | All Topics, Program Innovation
About three years ago, Eduventures Research set out to answer two simple questions: In what ways had schools implemented competency-based education (CBE)? And, what might be its prospects for further growth? Having tracked its development among a handful of promising...
by Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 11, 2018 | All Topics, Program Innovation
Question: What should happen when the most-widely recognized college ranking publication decides to insert a social mobility metric into its longstanding methodology? Answer: Higher education should sit up and take notice. Monday’s announcement that U.S. News and...
by Johanna Trovato, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jul 17, 2018 | All Topics, Program Innovation, Program Spotlight
Drawing on Eduventures’ 20-plus years of experience helping universities develop, launch, and assess academic programs, the Program Spotlight Series of Wake-Up Calls calls attention to best practices in program development. If you have loosely followed the legal...
by Howard Lurie, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jun 5, 2018 | All Topics, Program Innovation
In 2016, Eduventures began a three-year inquiry into competency-based education (CBE). In the initial phase of our study, Deconstructing CBE, we found that: “While there is no shortage of interest in CBE, the real question is: what does this interest amount to?...
by Johanna Trovato, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | May 22, 2018 | All Topics, Program Innovation, Program Spotlight
Drawing on Eduventures’ 20-plus years of experience helping universities develop, launch, and assess academic programs, the Program Spotlight Series of Wake-Up Calls calls attention to best practices in program development. Consider this: in 2016, there were 236,000...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Mar 27, 2018 | All Topics, Program Innovation, Technology Research
Online learning has been part of higher education for almost 30 years now. Students studying either fully or partially online make up 31% of U.S. undergraduate enrollment (as of fall 2016), and 37% of graduate enrollment. But what does “online learning” really mean?...
