Driving Innovation With For Profit Adult Higher Education Online Institutions

Author : Stein, David,Glazer, Hilda R.,Wanstreet, Constance
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799891000

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Driving Innovation With For-Profit Adult Higher Education Online Institutions by Stein, David,Glazer, Hilda R.,Wanstreet, Constance Pdf

The emergence of remote and for-profit universities has provided increased opportunities for adult learners to obtain higher education degrees in a technologically-dependent teaching-learning environment. During the pandemic, for-profit online learning institutions experienced increases in enrollment while face-to-face institutions experienced a decrease. Higher education accreditation bodies have legitimized distance learning virtual universities as sites for adult learners, especially part-time adult learners, and made distance education an accepted way to receive a higher education degree. Driving Innovation With For-Profit Adult Higher Education Online Institutions focuses on teaching and learning in distance learning remote universities. This book explores, describes, and questions the role of these institution in the higher education landscape. This publication examines the ideas, programs, student services, and curriculum innovations that created the space for the for-profit distance education university to become a competitive force in the higher education marketplace. Covering topics such as driving achievement, internships, and part-time faculty, this book is an essential resource for university leaders, administrators, faculty, student services leadership and staff, higher education historians and researchers, accreditors and regulators, and academicians.

Author : Ben Wildavsky,Andrew P. Kelly,Kevin Carey
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612504278

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Reinventing Higher Education by Ben Wildavsky,Andrew P. Kelly,Kevin Carey Pdf

The inspiration for this timely book is the pressing need for fresh ideas and innovations in U.S. higher education. At the heart of the volume is the realization that higher education must evolve in fundamental ways if it is to respond to changing professional, economic, and technological circumstances, and if it is to successfully reach and prepare a vast population of students—traditional and nontraditional alike—for success in the coming decades. This collection of provocative articles by leading scholars, writers, innovators, and university administrators examines the current higher education environment and its chronic resistance to change; the rise of for-profit universities; the potential future role of community colleges in a significantly revised higher education realm; and the emergence of online learning as a means to reshape teaching and learning and to reach new consumers of higher education. Combining trenchant critiques of current conditions with thought-provoking analyses of possible reforms and new directions, Reinventing Higher Education is an ambitious exploration of possible future directions for revitalized American colleges and universities.

Author : Keengwe, Jared
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799895657

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Handbook of Research on Active Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education by Keengwe, Jared Pdf

Active learning occurs when a learning task can be related in a non-arbitrary manner to what the learner already knows and when there is a personal recognition of the links between concepts. The most important element of active learning is not so much in how information is presented, but how new information is integrated into an existing knowledge base. In order to successfully implement active learning into higher education, its effect on student engagement must be studied and considered. The Handbook of Research on Active Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education focuses on assessing the effectiveness of active learning and constructivist teaching to promote student engagement and provides a wide range of strategies and frameworks to help educators and other practitioners examine the benefits, challenges, and opportunities for using active learning approaches to maximize student learning. Covering topics such as online learning environments and engagement approaches, this major reference work is ideal for academicians, practitioners, researchers, librarians, industry professionals, educators, and students.

Author : Karpava, Sviatlana
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799888901

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Handbook of Research on Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Higher Education and Implications for Teaching by Karpava, Sviatlana Pdf

Multilingualism, multiculturalism, and internationalization in higher education is a contemporary reality worldwide. Because of the importance of multilingualism in learning policy, special professional and education training should be provided both to teachers and students. Multilingual education can promote linguistic and cultural diversity, inclusion, and social development. The Handbook of Research on Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Higher Education and Implications for Teaching focuses on both top-down and bottom-up perspectives on multilingual and multicultural education based on conceptual and empirical studies. This book provides evidence in support of sustainable multilingualism and multiculturalism in higher education. Covering topics such as dialectic teaching, multilingual classrooms, and teacher education, this major reference work is an essential resource for pre-service teachers, educators of higher education, language policy experts, university administration, scholars, linguists, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Nicola J. Palmer,Julie Davies,Clare Viney
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789735017

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Business and Management Doctorates World-Wide by Nicola J. Palmer,Julie Davies,Clare Viney Pdf

Business and Management Doctorates World-Wide offers detailed comparative analysis of current practices to highlight reasons for commonalities and differences in different parts of the world with suggestions about lessons shared in diverse contexts.

Author : Malheiro, Benedita,Fuentes-Durá, Pedro
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668423110

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Handbook of Research on Improving Engineering Education With the European Project Semester by Malheiro, Benedita,Fuentes-Durá, Pedro Pdf

Engineering education aims to prepare engineering undergraduates for their future professional journey where they will be called on to solve challenges affecting individuals, companies, and society. The European Project Semester (EPS) exposes students to project- and challenge-based learning, paying special attention to international multidisciplinary teamwork, sustainable design, innovative thinking, and project management in order to develop a set of desired professional skills. The Handbook of Research on Improving Engineering Education With the European Project Semester shares the best practices in engineering education through close examination of the EPS. It describes the adopted learning framework, analyzes how it contributes to the development of skills, reports on the types of challenges proposed to teams, and delivers a set of team-project cases from the network of providers. Covering topics such as engineering ethics, project management, and sustainable behavior, this book is essential to students in engineering, engineers, engineering educators, educational researchers, academic administration and faculty, and academicians.

Author : Meletiadou, Eleni
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799896302

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Handbook of Research on Practices for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education by Meletiadou, Eleni Pdf

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the forefront of current discussion, as these issues have become an international concern for politicians, government agencies, social activists, and the general public. Higher education institutions internationally face considerable challenges in terms of diversity management of both their students and staff, which limits the success of individuals, institutions, and the sector as a whole. The Handbook of Research on Practices for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education reports on current challenges that higher education institutions face in terms of diversity management and provides crucial research on the application of strategies designed to increase organizational change and support and integrate diverse individuals, including physically disabled individuals, women, and people of color, into higher education institutions. Covering a range of topics such as cultural intelligence and racial diversity, this reference work is ideal for researchers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, policymakers, educators, and students.

Author : Al-Mahdi, Osama,Purinton, Ted
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799892809

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Global Perspectives on Teacher Performance Improvement by Al-Mahdi, Osama,Purinton, Ted Pdf

In-service teacher professional development is central to most empirical conceptions of educational quality. As the techniques and strategies for educational reform have spread rapidly throughout the world, teacher professional development practices have been borrowed across borders. It is important to study the global sharing of information on teacher professional development. Global Perspectives on Teacher Performance Improvement examines the implementation of proven, high quality teacher professional development practices in unique environments around the world. It further explains the power of a globally connected community of teacher quality improvement. Covering topics such as mentoring programs, education technology, and education workforce, this book is an essential resource for educational administration and faculty, pre-service teachers, the public education sector, government officials, educators of both K-12 and higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Clayton M. Christensen,Henry J. Eyring
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118091258

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The Innovative University by Clayton M. Christensen,Henry J. Eyring Pdf

The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of performing their uniquely valuable functions. Offers new ways forward to deal with curriculum, faculty issues, enrollment, retention, graduation rates, campus facility usage, and a host of other urgent issues in higher education Discusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at the traditional university Contains novel insights into the kind of change that is necessary to move institutions of higher education forward in innovative ways This book uncovers how the traditional university survives by breaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it's done best.

Author : Prudence C. Layne,Peter Lake
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319104829

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Global Innovation of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education by Prudence C. Layne,Peter Lake Pdf

This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It introduces readers to pedagogical strategies that instructors worldwide are using to overcome some of the challenges they face in higher education. To maximize their students’ learning, this work argues that institutions are compelled to innovate their policies and instructors must be collaborative and creative in their practices in response to students’ growing demands, needs, challenges to their learning, and the shifting terrain of a rapidly globalizing world. The text explores the idiosyncrasies and challenges that drive innovation across particular cultures, disciplines and institutions. It suggests that the responses to these drivers offer some universal and compatible lessons that not only optimize teaching and learning, but also transgress institutional, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries in higher education. The contributors to this collection work in the United States, the United Kingdom, Africa, Asia, Australia, Scandinavia and the Middle East. They represent a broad range of disciplines, fields and institutional types. They teach in varied contexts, durations, delivery modes, and formats, including online, study abroad, blended, accelerated, condensed, intensive and mortar-and-brick settings. Their higher education students are equally as diverse, in age, cultural backgrounds and needs, but willingly lend their voices and experiences to their instructors’ study of teaching and learning in their particular contexts. This book harnesses the rich diversities and range our contributors represent and shares the results of their expertise, research, and assessments of some of the most creative and effective ways to improve student learning in the face of stagnant practices, limited resources, and other deficiencies that instructors and students face in higher education.

Author : John Sperling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351519496

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For-profit Higher Education by John Sperling Pdf

Today a college degree is needed to ensure an avenue to a decent standard of living. The workplace demands lifelong learning, since most workers will change careers several times before retiring. Meanwhile, attaining a degree is becoming more difficult both in terms of the time required and money. This affects not only individuals but encourages lawmakers to seek alternatives. This book examines higher education programs designed for and delivered to working adult students under a unique for-profit model, one that benefits both taxpayer and student.

Author : Robert Ubell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000429268

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Staying Online by Robert Ubell Pdf

In Staying Online, one of our most respected online learning leaders offers uncommon insights into how to reimagine digital higher education. As colleges and universities increasingly recognize that online learning is central to the future of post-secondary education, faculty and senior leaders must now grapple with how to assimilate, manage, and grow effective programs. Looking deeply into the dynamics of online learning today, Robert Ubell maps its potential to boost marginalized students, stabilize shifts in retention and tuition, and balance nonprofit and commercial services. This impressive collection spans the author’s day-to-day experiences as a digital learning pioneer, presents pragmatic yet forward-thinking solutions on scaling-up and digital economics, and prepares managers, administrators, provosts, and other leaders to educate our unsettled college students as online platforms fully integrate into the mainstream.

Author : Andrew P Kelly,Kevin Carey
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612505961

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Stretching the Higher Education Dollar by Andrew P Kelly,Kevin Carey Pdf

In this provocative volume, higher education experts explore innovative ways that colleges and universities can unbundle the various elements of the college experience while assessing costs and benefits and realizing savings. Stretching the Higher Education Dollar traces the reform continuum from incremental to more ambitious efforts. Topics include effective strategies for reallocating resources to capture efficiencies, opportunities with massive open online courses (MOOCs), and ideas for building low-cost degree pathways from the ground up. Though the pace of change in higher education is fast and furious, Stretching the Higher Education Dollar offers promising ideas for navigating the new fiscal, political, and technological environment.

Author : Henry C Lucas Jr
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789813144323

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Technology and the Disruption of Higher Education by Henry C Lucas Jr Pdf

Universities for years have been the bright spot in our educational system. Today, these institutions are under siege from multiple constituencies including students, parents, legislators, government officials and their own faculties. Education has historically been a way for students to improve their lives and fortunes. However, the rising costs of college are a barrier to access for many students, reducing their chances for upward mobility. Is technology the solution, or is it just another costly problem for universities? The purpose of this book is to explore how new technology has the potential to transform higher education. However, this same technology also has the potential to disrupt universities. Much depends on how administrators, faculty and students apply technologically enhanced learning. Technology and the Disruption of Higher Education presents details on MOOCs, blended, flipped and online classes and their role in transforming higher education based on the author's experiences teaching all of these types of courses. These technology-enabled approaches to teaching and learning offer tremendous opportunities to schools, but they also threaten the traditional university. The book identifies some of these threats and opportunities and offers suggested strategies to take advantage of the technology. Is this technology enough to save the university system? While new ways of teaching and learning are exciting, they are only part of the puzzle. Radical change beyond what happens in the classroom is needed if our higher education system is to continue to flourish and some of these ideas are discussed in the last chapter of the book. The book is a call to action for educators to realize that the technology is both transformational and disruptive, and that some universities are going to fail in the next 15 years. Contents:PrefaceAcknowledgmentsOn the Nature of the University:IntroductionWhat Is a College Education All About?Why a Revolution?Technology-Enhanced Learning:Changing the Way We TeachBlending and FlippingA High-Quality Online MBA ProgramThe MOOC MovementDisrupting and Transforming the University:Deploying the TechnologyOpportunities and ThreatsCost and QualityA Vision for the FutureThe Art of SurvivalChanging the SystemReferencesAppendix Readership: Students, teaching professionals and policymakers who are keen to understand the impact of technology on higher education.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : PURD:32754077071482

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Internet Education by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Pdf