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Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education
Ithaka S+R recently published a report funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and titled, “Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education.” I have written...
View ArticlePilot Program Forces Discussion of Online Learning, MOOCs, Student Retention,...
Earlier this week, the California State University System (CSU) announced an online pilot program with Udacity, a for-profit provider of MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses). Udacity will provide a...
View ArticleCelebrating Innovation in Education at the 2013 Milken-Penn GSE Education...
Last week, the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and the Milken Family Foundation hosted the fourth annual Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. The competition...
View ArticleOnline Disruption, MOOC Mania, and Change in Higher Education – How Crazy (or...
(keynote delivered at the Distance Learning Administration Conference on June 5, 2013) I began writing this speech nearly three months ago. A week and a half ago, I wrapped it up and thought I had...
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Tracking Key Education Trends on a Late Summer Day
By Jeffrey McCafferty, Associate Vice President, Strategic Planning at the American Public University System Late summer and early autumn is one of my favorite times to visit New York City. The weather...
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Exploring Institution-to-Institution Student Swirling Patterns
On October 30, my colleagues Dr. Phil Ice, vice president of research and development, Dr. Melissa Layne, director of research methodology, and I presented a research paper at the Online Learning...
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The Summit for Online Leadership and Strategy
Last week, I attended the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and American Council on Education (ACE) Summit for Online Leadership and Strategy in San Antonio. Less...
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A Research Project Often Cited
In many research papers reporting on the persistence of adult students, authors cite a Department of Education Study that reports several risk factors that may influence a non-traditional student’s...
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Guest Post: Personalization and Respect Central to Creating Value for...
APUS is dedicated to implementing best practices and programs for our students that support their academic and personal success. In this guest post, Caroline Simpson, APUS assistant provost of student...
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Graduation Gap Wider than Enrollment Gap for the Poor
Susan Dynarski’s June 2 article in The New York Times elicited more than a few tweets. Dr. Dynarski, a professor of education, public policy and economics at the University of Michigan, wrote about a...
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There Is Life after College
Jeff Selingo, author of College (Un)bound, recently released his latest book, There Is Life After College, a primer for parents of college-aged children. He maintains that today’s teenagers and young...
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Higher Ed: For Students, the Sum of the Parts May Be Greater than the Whole
It’s common knowledge among those of us researching student retention in online higher education that swirling (attendance by a student at multiple institutions) is much more prevalent with online,...
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APUS Nursing Programs Recognized by Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
Guest Post by Stacey Kram, DNP, RN-BC, CCRN, PCCN, CNE Interim Program Director I am very pleased to announce that the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) has renewed our RN to BSN...
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Commencement 2019: A Provost Takes Pride
Guest Post by Dr. Vernon Smith, Provost Are you a fan of Commencement? Does hearing Pomp and Circumstance stir excitement and fond memories? Do you look for the most creative mortarboards with phrases...
View ArticleA Simple Way to Equalize the Ivies?
In this week’s New York Times, Dana Goldstein and Anemona Hartocollis write about the difference in enrollments at the Ivy Plus (eight Ivy League universities plus Duke, Stanford, M.I.T., and the...
View ArticleIndispensable Institutions: Reimagining Community Colleges
Opportunity America, a Washington, DC think tank and policy shop, issued a report last week that reimagines the role of community colleges. The JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the Lumina Foundation...
View ArticleThe Comeback Story: Why Adult Learners Return to College
New America, a think tank dedicated to confronting the challenges created by technology and social change and seizing those opportunities, released a report this week titled The Comeback Story. The...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Changes and a Crusade Against Terrible Advising
Somehow, I missed The Chronicle of Higher Education article titled “A Crusade Against Terrible Advising” when it was published on August 4. According to Scott Carlson, senior reporter, the genesis of...
View ArticleThe Dual Enrollment Playbook and Helping High School Students
The Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers’ College, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program, and the Aspen Institute Education & Society Program recently...
View ArticleTransfer Student Survey of Colleges Shows a Need for More Progress
The editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed, Doug Lederman, published an article Monday morning about the pathways of transfer for students from two-year to four-year colleges. Acknowledging that...
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