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Eduventures Summit 2018: 5 Analyst Insights
Tomorrow evening we look forward to welcoming you, our clients, colleagues, and friends, to Boston for Eduventures Summit 2018 Higher Ed Remastered: The Great Debate. While in years past higher education agreed on the fundamentals, today it is suffering from a rare lack of consensus—about everything from mission to product, and regulation to values.
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CBE, Reconstructed? New Developments, New Research
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? Is the sector on the brink of a CBE revolution or will CBE quickly return to the margins?
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Career Articulation: Getting from Major to Career
High school students ask some big questions about their future when they apply to college. Chief among them is: What do I want to be when I grow up? Also: Will my career be personally rewarding? Will it benefit others? Will it sustain me financially? Will it allow me to pay off my student loans and live a life of comfort?
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Caution: Niche Market. Enter at Your Own Risk.
Consider this: in 2016, there were 236,000 academic programs offered by 6,700 title IV eligible institutions of higher education in the U.S. That is an increase of 34,500 academic programs since 2012, or one new program per institution per year, not counting program closures.
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The Journey of Degree Planning: 5 EdTech Vendors to Watch
Demonstrated by efforts like the Excellence in Academic Advising program or the Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (IPAAS) initiative, the question of how to improve advising to ensure student success is gaining traction at colleges and universities.
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Be All That You Have Been: How the Military is Innovating Education
It’s commonly understood that adult learners want degree or certificate programs that are low in cost and high in speed-to-completion. Less understood is how schools can provide these features along with high quality learning experiences and a legitimate chance to find a well-paying job upon graduation.
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The Great Debate: Eduventures Summit 2018 Takes on the Most Pressing Issues of Our Time
An hour reading the news might suggest that this is the worst of times for higher education. Rarely have things seemed so acute. A perfect storm of enrollment and funding pressure, finger-pointing on cost and ROI, and politicization and self-doubt has created…
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Revealing The 2018 Tech Landscape: Mapping Higher Ed Technology
The complex world of higher education technology can make your head spin: companies make conflicting claims about their products; many products have overlapping functionality; and it is not always clear what different product types actually mean. As a result, deciding which technology solutions are the best fit for your school can be daunting.
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The Discount Store vs. the Boutique: Understanding the Pricing Frame for Students
Have you ever peered into an expensive shop, looked at the sleek merchandise, realized you probably couldn’t afford anything, and left before the clerk could notice you? Have you ever walked past a discount store, reminded yourself not to waste money on an item that might fall apart before you get it home, and kept right on walking?
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Prove It: Do OPMs really boost enrollment?
Companies like 2U, Pearson, and Wiley, online program management (OPM) firms that partner with schools to launch degree programs, ultimately stake their claim on one thing: hire us and we will deliver more online students than you could enroll on your own. But does...
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Eduventures Summit 2018: 5 Analyst Insights
Tomorrow evening we look forward to welcoming you, our clients, colleagues, and friends, to Boston for Eduventures Summit 2018 Higher Ed Remastered: The Great Debate. While in years past higher education agreed on the fundamentals, today it is suffering from a rare lack of consensus—about everything from mission to product, and regulation to values.
read moreCBE, Reconstructed? New Developments, New Research
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? Is the sector on the brink of a CBE revolution or will CBE quickly return to the margins?
read more