A new initiative from a Duke University professor – one who is known for challenging higher education traditions – seeks answers to the future of higher education through the use of, among other things, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
The College Board recently released a report defending its findings that a higher education leads to more pay for American workers.
As a supplement to its 2013 Education Pays report, the College Board – a not-for-profit membership for colleges and universities across the country – addresses criticism that its reports may over-state the benefits of a college education.
The 2013 report finds that those who earn a bachelor’s degree will make 65% more in salary than those with just a high school education.
Universities may eventually award bachelor’s degrees in less than four years, one of many proposals currently on the table to lower the cost of college for students, according to an expert in the field.
Jeff Selingo, in a recent interview with PBS, said that “there is nothing magical about four years of college and 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree.” He said there is now a movement toward more competency-based education, where the only question is: what do you know?
By engaging students and pushing them to succeed, games may offers a new way to teach students, according to an expert on performance and gaming.
In a presentation at least week’s “Educause” conference in California, Jane McGonigal – a game designer, author and researcher – predicted that “extreme learning environments” will offer students a chance to play and create while they learn.
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One of the co-founders of the online education company Coursera claims that shorter classes – courses that run just three weeks, for example – are better for students than longer courses.
This runs against the grain of traditional thinking in higher education, where classes generally run 12 weeks and sometimes even longer.
Stanford University offers the best MBA when it comes to return on investment, according to a new rankings listed released by Forbes magazine.
Stanford gets graduates the highest paychecks five years after graduation, with an annual median total compensation of $221,000, according to Forbes.
Without much fanfare, the Harvard Business School has started to develop a new online initiative, the first step into online learning for one of the nation’s most prestigious business schools.
The move puts Harvard into the area of MOOCs, or massive open online courses. The move may “shake up” the online education market, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. It’s also a bold move for Harvard Business School, which is one of the best-known brands in all of education.
More students are enrolling into business schools, with the majority of United States schools reporting an increase in applications for the first time since 2009, a new report has found. …
Colleges that depend on research funding, military members looking for tuition assistance and those who need information from the monthly government jobs report all are suffering under the current government …
The federal government shutdown that looms ahead on Oct. 1 will not immediately affect higher education, but could eventually lead to cuts to financial aid programs and research funding.
Unless Congress can reach a compromise on a stopgap measure to keep government open, the federal government will shut down on the first day of October. This would mean that all non-essential federal government operations would shut down. According to Inside Higher Ed, however, it’s not clear how this will affect higher education programs.
