Q&A with authors of book about redesigning America's community colleges. Success at community colleges will take off once institutions streamline their offerings.
That's the position the authors of Redesigning America's Community Colleges take. Thomas R. Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins, all with the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College, believe the current cafeteria approach -- where students select from often hundreds and thousands of courses on their path to earning a degree -- is wrong for two-year colleges. Vincent Tinto-Student Success.
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Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to promote critical thinking skills through learning what others have done with digital Apps. Bloom’s Taxonomy is a multi-tiered categorization of knowledge, comprehension and critical thinking. There are six levels in the taxonomy (categorization), moving through the lowest order thinking skills (LOTS) to the highest order thinking skills (HOTS): The Future Is Now: 15 Innovations to Watch For - Commentary. By Steven Mintz Profound transformations have reshaped the higher-education landscape in roughly 50-year intervals.
During the early 19th century, the colonial colleges were joined by several hundred more religiously founded institutions. The mid-19th century saw the rise of public colleges, culminating in the Morrill Act of 1862. What&why2010-2. Trends-in-enrollment-patterns. BarrTagg.
Success. Survey finds that business executives aren't focused on the majors of those they hire. Business executives care more about their new hires' thinking, communication and problem-solving skills than they do about their undergraduate majors, according to a survey being released today by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn. Flickr:AllHails At the star-studded Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (HILT) event earlier this month, where professors gathered to discuss innovative strategies for learning and teaching, Harvard’s professor Eric Mazur gave a talk on the benefits of practicing peer instruction in class, rather than the traditional lecture.
The idea is getting traction. Need a Job? Invent It. If you have the skills, manufacturers have the jobs. By Jeff Swinger, The Cincinnati Enquirer Sam Cole of T.J.
Williams Electric Co. works at a downtown Cincinnati job site. Cole is in the fourth year of his electrician apprenticeship and expects to earn journeyman status in one more year. The U.S. manufacturing sector is regaining momentum, but many of those with close ties to it — from educators to senators — are concerned that the industry is not ready to face increasing demands. After spending the last five years upgrading production lines, streamlining factories with multi-million dollar computers and adding automation, the manufacturing industry has evolved into a high-tech environment that has expanded to include thousands of new jobs. You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - Technology.
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8 Ideas to Improve Higher Education. One of the biggest challenges states face is producing a workforce qualified to meet the needs of employers in today’s economy.
In order to increase degree attainment and begin to close the skills gap that exists between workforce supply and industry demand, states should change the way they fund higher education. States have traditionally funded their public institutions of higher education based on enrollments. Community Colleges for the Students They Actually Have - College, Reinvented. By Josh Wyner In the United States, we think of elementary and secondary education as fundamentally different from higher education.
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center: Snapshot Reports. Growth in Science and Engineering (S&E) Bachelor’s Degrees by Age Between 2009 and 2013, students over the age of 26 showed a 25% growth rate in S&E bachelor’s degree completion compared to a 19% growth rate among traditional-age students (those age 26 or under at time of completion).
In 2013, students over the age of 26 accounted for 18% of all S&E bachelor’s degrees. > Download PDF Continue reading→ A Simple Guide To 4 Complex Learning Theories. Colleges Turn to Crowd-Sourcing Courses. Technical college puts job readiness and attendance scores on transcripts. The rap on college transcripts is that they don’t tell employers much, thanks to grade inflation and the failure of conventional grades to predict performance on the job.
So to try to give their students' transcripts more heft, a two-year college in Missouri now includes not only their grades, but a job readiness score and their attendance rate as well. Linn State Technical College’s employability rating is fairly extensive. Colleges Ask Education Dept. to Clarify Rules on Competency and Credit - Government. Competency-based education and regional accreditation. Historians of this period, possessing the clearsightedness that only time provides, will likely point to online learning as the disruptive technology platform that radically changed higher education, which had remained largely unchanged since the cathedral schools of medieval Europe -- football, beer pong and food courts notwithstanding.
The Curious Birth and Harmful Legacy of the Credit Hour - Commentary. By Amy Laitinen Time-based units were never intended to be a measure of student learning. In the early 1900s, Andrew Carnegie, troubled that professors made too little to save for retirement, created a free pension system, administered by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The End of the University as We Know It - Nathan Harden. In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.
Advanced Placement vs. Dual Enrollment - On Hiring. Can we please dispense with the fiction that Advanced Placement courses in any way resemble college courses? Because that’s what it is—a fiction, carefully crafted by the College Board to promote its AP franchise to the detriment of other, better options. Specifically, I’m talking about dual enrollment, a program in many states that allows qualified high-school seniors (and in some cases, juniors) to take actual college courses. Typically those courses count for both high-school and college credit, and are directly transferable into the state-university system (and often beyond). Best, Worst Learning Tips: Flash Cards Are Good, Highlighting Is Bad.
College, Reinvented. Stanford professor goes public on attacks over her math education research. Jo Boaler's career has all the hallmarks of success. She is a full professor at Stanford University. She receives grants from the National Science Foundation and other funders for her research on mathematics education. School at Age 3. No More 12th Grade. - College, Reinvented.
HelpWanted%202012. - A Conversation with Dan Hull, Author of “Career Pathways for STEM Technicians” Survey examines how prospective students use social media to research colleges. Teaching (non-tech)