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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. ” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

One way is through acquisitions like the one his university made of the Claremont School of Theology in California, or CST, which is being moved to the Salem, Oregon, campus of Willamette, just as private companies consolidate to increase their size and cost-effectiveness. Will there be more?

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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Can ‘work colleges’ in cities become a low-cost, high-value model for the future?

The Hechinger Report

While such debt can be burdensome, work college graduates typically owed about $10,000 less than graduates from public colleges and about $15,000 less than graduates from private nonprofit schools, according to a 2012 report from the Work Colleges Consortium, the most recent report available. The companies select them,” Sorrell said.

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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?

MindShift

A nationwide survey of ELL educators by McKinsey & Company during the 2012-13 school year revealed 70 percent created their own materials. public schools and historically have some of the lowest test scores and highest dropout rates of all student groups. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.