Online Blogucation

Simply put, colleges and universities [...]

Yep. Barnes & Noble. Of course, if they wanted to, students could go to Starbucks or several McDonalds these days. They can find Internet access almost anywhere but their own school. These students can find Internet at airports during Spring Break, at Kinko’s for X cents per minute, or by going to the public library, but they can’t access the world wide web, including their online classes from school. Ugh.

Most of us have heard of the European Union along with the establishment of the Euro as a common currency across the continent. Fewer have heard of the Bologna Process which began in June, 1999 with the goal of creating a more standardized higher education system in EU member nations. One initiative has been a [...]

Do you know the story of the student who kept taking his Final Exam after the class session ended?  The instructor of the large, Freshman lecture called for all tests to be turned in on her desk.  Every student complied, creating a very large stack, save one.  He just sat in his desk, writing and filling [...]

Over the past few months I’ve been reflecting and writing about assessment accountability and its intersection with workplace competencies.  I believe today’s post on competency-based learning nicely integrates these two topics and provides academic leaders with a progressive assessment model that dovetails nicely into learning outcome management systems which support the more rigorous demands of [...]

The higher education community has been rumbling for several years about whether and to what extent government will pressure accrediting bodies to figure out how to hold institutions more accountable for demonstrating student achievement and growth.  Tuition increases have consistently outpaced inflation for years which has led to public pressure to figure out why and [...]