For two decades, many in the education world have danced with “Big Data”, taken by the appealing idea of educators and institutions transforming the learning environment through scalable, meaningful insights into individual and aggregate data that can impact the performance of their students. As well-intentioned and important as this concept has been in driving educational […]
This post is the first of a mini-series on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the latest phenomenon to hit higher education here in the US and internationally. MOOCs are the most exciting thing to hit higher education since the personal computer became ubiquitous. Not everyone will agree, as the ongoing MOOC debate seems to have […]
A recent Inside Higher Ed article dives into the challenges facing institutions following the rise of competency based learning (CBL). With the realization that seat time is less indicative of student success and as practical knowledge-attained takes the center-stage, the question arises: what happens to commonly held ideals about accreditation and the sacred credit-hour? While […]