by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jan 19, 2021 | All Topics, Technology Research
We all love making predictions. They help us deal with uncertainty, which has undoubtedly come into sharp focus over the past year. The issue with predictions, however, is that they are often wrong—some glaringly so. And those involving higher education technology are...
by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Nov 10, 2020 | Technology Research
Eduventures Summit 2020Virtual Research Forum November 12 More Info Register Nearly every institution spends significant time and resources making a good first impression on prospective students. As students progress through the enrollment cycle, savvy institutions...
by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Nov 3, 2020 | Technology Research
Eduventures Summit 2020Virtual Research Forum November 12 More Info Register About 20 years ago, the launch of iTunes disrupted the music industry. Instead of purchasing entire albums, users could buy, share, and manage single songs in digital formats. This gave users...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 15, 2020 | Student Success, Technology Research
“360,316 already enrolled.” It is big numbers like this—featured on the homepage of the 10-course Data Science “specialization” from Johns Hopkins University and many others offered by other schools on Coursera, the giant MOOC platform, that both substantiate and...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 8, 2020 | COVID-19, Technology Research
“The virtual university is the university made concrete,” said the animated young professor to my right, concluding his point with a flourish. It was London in the spring of 2000, a surreal no-man’s land between dotcom boom and crash. We were on a conference panel...
by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 1, 2020 | Technology Research
With additional contributions from Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA, and Clint Raine, Eduventures Client Research Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA. The typical vision of the student journey is a single, seamless trajectory, beginning at...
