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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025. In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Prior to that, Ray was Dean for the School of Education at Southern New Hampshire University which Fast Company Magazine named the 12th most innovative organization in the world in its World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.

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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

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. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. It wasn’t always this way.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school.

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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. It’s a significant problem.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Edsurge profiles the latest from Degreed : “This Company Wants to Help You Hire for Skills, Not Credentials.” ” ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors with the company.). From the HR Department.