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The Myth of May 1st: When Students Really Choose to Enroll
In this digital age, the last minute cascade of deposits that arrive on May 1st can lull institutions into believing that they have a chance right up until the bitter end. This, of course, is not true.
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How to Shift Your Strategy and Put the ‘Tech’ in Teach
The role of technology in teaching and learning is a hot topic. Every week, there’s a new batch of articles and blogs highlighting initiatives that leverage solutions to support personalized learning, learning spaces, and student-centered learning.
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Building Better Online Courses: Findings from CHLOE 3
What makes a great online course? How much of a course should be devoted to student engagement with content versus time with faculty, other students, and support staff? Our latest CHLOE report, published today, offers some insights.
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2019 Student Success Tournament: Florida State Reigns
When it comes to college basketball—or athletics in general—it’s all fun and games, unless your students aren’t successful. The intense focus on admissions and athletics in the news cycle over the last few weeks has raised serious questions about equity and fairness in college admissions.
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Spring Break for Tuition: Renewed Interest in the ISA
Once again, income-sharing agreements (ISA) are in the wind. They’ve become the darling of many software coding bootcamps such as Lambda School, which recently attracted $150,000,000 of venture capital from a raft of Silicon Valley investors and even Ashton Kutcher.
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From AI to Analytics: Three Program Areas to Watch
Rarely a day goes by when a client doesn’t ask us: “What is the next big degree?” Sometimes, popular culture holds the answer.
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Rating (not Ranking) Student Success
What do Massachusetts Maritime Academy, University of South Florida, and Mount Saint Mary’s University have in common?
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Future Formula: Can Online Learning Help Solve College Debt?
In an environment where college tuition continues to march ahead of inflation and the student debt balloon grows bigger every year, can online learning come to the rescue?
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You’re the One that I Want: Separating the Committed Applicants from the Rest
Sometimes you just know. Whether it’s the love of your life, the career you will pursue, or simply the sweater you see at the store: when it’s right, you just know. Or at least you think you know… long enough to take the plunge.This phenomenon is also present among...
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Esports: More Than Just an Extracurricular?
The surge in esports (a.k.a. competitive video gaming) has officially transferred off of the couch and onto campus. Over the past year, several institutions have embraced extracurricular activities focused on esports. Others are even bringing esports into the...
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What to Expect from Eduventures Tech Landscape 2019
Once a year, we undertake the always interesting (but often headache-inducing) task of reviewing hundreds of unique and inventive technology products in the higher education market and classifying each of them into a single category. This year, we will publish our 2019 Higher Education Technology Landscape (Landscape) for the first time at the Eduventures Summit, commencing tomorrow in Boston.
read moreFive New Insights Featured at Eduventures Summit 2019
What do out-of-state online enrollment, undergraduate brand distinctiveness, and the use of YouTube among high school students have in common? They are all burning issues that will be addressed at Eduventures Summit 2019, of course!
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