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?...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Jan 9, 2018 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics, Program Innovation, Student Success, Technology Research, Traditional Student Demand
Once again, I am throwing caution to the wind with some predictions for the coming year. (For a look at my form, please see an assessment of my 2017 forecast.) Of course, predicting the future blurs what might plausibly happen with what one thinks ought to happen....
by Cara Quackenbush, Eduventures Vice President of Research at ACT | NRCCUA | Dec 19, 2017 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics, Program Innovation, Student Success, Technology Research, Traditional Student Demand
For our final Wake-Up Call of 2017, we thought we’d reflect on the content that you, our readers, have signaled is most valuable. While it is tempting to jump ahead to 2018—especially in a climate of uncertainty about how current events may shape higher education next...
