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Four Ways to Impact Student Success
Each year at Eduventures Summit, we recognize the accomplishments of a handful of schools across the country with an Eduventures Innovation Award. This year, we honored four.Among them: online giants, a small private university, and a school at one of the oldest...
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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.
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Five 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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If There’s a Will, There’s a Waze: Navigating the Student Journey
In a previous Wake-Up Call, we looked at the association between online learning and per-student spend on instruction and support services. The trend is clear—the higher the proportion of fully online students, the lower the per-student spend.
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Is the Community College Transfer Pipeline Changing?
In a previous Wake-Up Call, we looked at the association between online learning and per-student spend on instruction and support services. The trend is clear—the higher the proportion of fully online students, the lower the per-student spend.
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Future Formula Part 2: Faculty Spend and the Limits of Online Learning
In a previous Wake-Up Call, we looked at the association between online learning and per-student spend on instruction and support services. The trend is clear—the higher the proportion of fully online students, the lower the per-student spend.
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Higher Ed 901: Previewing Eduventures Summit 2019
Anyone wanting to be immersed in the latest and greatest thinking about higher education would be hard pressed to beat Eduventures Summit 2019. With the generous support our partner, Strada Education, we have assembled a line-up of veteran leaders, researchers, and change-makers—nothing wrong with another start-up swaggering to “fix” higher ed, but true insight is more likely to come from elsewhere.
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Can Wind Energy Power Your Academic Portfolio?
Smart higher education institutions are constantly retooling their academic portfolios to capture evolving student interests, meet future workforce needs, and get a jump on the next big degree program. As a research partner to many of them, new and unique programs that pop up close to home are bound to catch our attention.
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Finding Value for Adult Learners at ASU GSV
The annual migration of ed-tech venture capitalists, start-up executives, innovators, and educators descended on San Diego last week for the ASU-GSV conference–now in its 10th year addressing the most pressing challenges facing education. As the Varsity Blues admissions scandal and NCAA basketball tournament scrolled by on every TV, there was a particularly palpable sense that the pace of change in higher education needs to accelerate.
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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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California Dreamin’? New Regulations for OPMs and For-Profit Schools
California Assemblyman Kevin McCarty has a long record of advocating for improvements in public education, criminal justice reform, and improved access to health care. He has also become an important actor in a new drama designed to introduce new regulations for OPMs...
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Imagine what your iPhone would be like if Steve Jobs had—according to Walter Isaacson’s biography—succeeded in disallowing the open-platform App Store. We wouldn't have edtech platforms like today. How long would it have taken before we had apps to stream music, use...
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