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The Top 5 Wake-Up Calls of 2018
For our final post of 2018, we reflect on what you, our readers, have signaled are the most important topics of the past year. The themes of our top five most-read Wake-Up Calls range widely—from questions about the evolving online program management (OPM) market, to getting ahead of the recruitment curve for all kinds of students.
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What We Learned This Year: Eduventures Analysts Reflect on 2018
For this post, we asked five Eduventures analysts to reflect on a simple question: What did you learn this year? As their answers revealed, quite a lot.
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Grading the Accuracy of our 2018 Higher Ed Predictions
Back in January, I made three higher education predictions for 2018. This Wake-Up Call examines whether this year’s forecasts panned out. My 2018 conjectures were nothing if not ambitious. Throwing precedent and experience out the window, I predicted:
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An OPM Opportunity: Grow Enrollment, Deepen Impact, or Both?
The online program management (OPM) market shows few signs of slowing down. The recent $200 million acquisition of The Learning House by Wiley Education Services suggests that the marketplace for online learning is strong and poised for further growth. Eduventures’...
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How Elite Universities are Changing the Online Master’s Game
There used to be an inverse relationship between top graduate schools and online master’s degrees. The more prestigious the institution, the less likely it was to offer any degree fully online. Deans and faculty eyed online suspiciously, convinced that the delivery...
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The EdTech Product Conundrum: A Lesson From Oracle
In the higher education product marketplace, vendors fall along a spectrum. At one end is the majority of vendors who focus exclusively on higher education. They believe higher education has unique problems and develop products and features to address these...
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Utah Dethrones Georgia: Eduventures 2018 College Football Student Success Ratings
It’s officially crunch time for college football! Players and coaches are buckling down to get the best performances they can as they head into the heart of the season. Teams must brush off early losses or lackluster performance to have a chance at the playoffs. This...
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Four Attributes of Successful Recruitment Emails
If you had to name the most effective recruitment tool in the enrollment marketer’s toolkit, what would you say it is? If you said “email,” you’d be correct. According to our Student Sentiment Survey™, which measures the college search behaviors of more than 4,700...
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How Do Institutions Select Retention Management Technologies?
In the race to grow revenue at institutions across the country, one statistic weighs heavily on the minds of higher education leaders: nearly one-third of students entering college do not return after their freshman year. Despite this picture, however, it may be...
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Admit Me Right Meow: 5 Memorable Recruitment Strategies
What does effective undergraduate recruitment marketing strategy look like? This question haunts the halls of higher education marketing conferences and recruitment marketers’ sleepless nights. To find an answer, we consulted the most credible judges on this topic:...
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The Top 5 Wake-Up Calls of 2018
For our final post of 2018, we reflect on what you, our readers, have signaled are the most important topics of the past year. The themes of our top five most-read Wake-Up Calls range widely—from questions about the evolving online program management (OPM) market, to getting ahead of the recruitment curve for all kinds of students.
read moreWhat We Learned This Year: Eduventures Analysts Reflect on 2018
For this post, we asked five Eduventures analysts to reflect on a simple question: What did you learn this year? As their answers revealed, quite a lot.
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