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...
by Johanna Trovato, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Aug 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Technology Research, Traditional Student Demand
The fall 2020 recruitment cycle has been the most difficult in recent history. Mid-cycle, recruiters found themselves reinventing their engagement strategies on the fly with little precedent or data to go on. Now that we are a short few weeks—or even days—away from...
by Michael Miller, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Aug 4, 2020 | COVID-19, Technology Research
Though nearly impossible to quantify, cheating remains a persistent and resilient issue for many institutions. More so than ever before, schools are calling on technology to assist with the new modality reality wrought by COVID-19. Mid-pandemic, we noted a marked...
by Michael Miller, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jul 14, 2020 | All Topics, Technology Research, Traditional Student Demand
With over 35 million students having attended college but never having earned a credential, retention rates, with too few exceptions, remain stubbornly low. Despite modest overall improvement, 40% of institutions reported a decline in their full-time retention rates...
