Before I move on to my next case study in academic institutions moving toward operational excellence at supporting student success, I want to revisit a section toward the end of my last post on the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative (OEI). I was looking at the alignment that has to be achieved at various levels […]
Academics and Academia
The "Academics and Academia" category covers topics related the ways in which colleges and universities function that are relevant to technology-supported education. One key aspect covered here is pedagogy—how people teach—and how technology impacts teaching and learning.
But this category also includes more institutional aspects that are relevant to technology-supported education, such as how campus leadership supports (or doesn't support) new initiatives, politics and bureaucracy that impact these efforts, and so on.
Finally, "Academics and Academia" covers commercial and non-profit services that provide support for technology-supported education initiatives, such as Online Program Management (OPM) companies.
Coursera CEO Interview: Betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees
Getting past rev-share vs. fee-for-service artificial dilemma; the real choice for OPM market may become low-cost vs. full-cost online degrees
Experience Economy: Enterprise software view into persistence and future of LMS market
How SAP’s massive purchase of Qualtrics can help answer why the LMS is so persistent and a helpful way to look at formative assessment and data analytics.
Toward Operational Excellence at Student Success: California Community Colleges
How would you foster a culture of collaborative operational excellence in supporting student success across a radically decentralized collection of 114 community colleges?
OLC 2018 SoTL Panel Further Info
Further reading for session attendees
OLC 2018 SoTL Panel Further Info
Further reading for session attendees
Toward a Methodology of Change in Higher Ed
For a couple of years now, we’ve been saying that higher education is at the beginning stages of a long transition from a philosophical commitment to student success toward an operational commitment to it. In other words, colleges and universities are beginning to grapple in earnest with how to rewire themselves so that their culture […]