No Institutional Change Without Incentive: Reinventing College Rankings
If institutions continue to be measured and ranked on their adherence to the traditional factors that helped institutions stand out a century ago, there is minimal incentive investment in change....
View ArticleSplitting Hairs: Exploring Learn-ing vs Learn-er Analytics (and Why We Should...
Though most postsecondary administrators use “learning analytics” to describe the entire swathe of data becoming available, these data split into two unique categories with significant differences in...
View ArticleAcademic Dishonesty and Online Education (Part 1): Understanding the Problem
Academic dishonesty has always been a challenge in the postsecondary space, but as more and more programming is moving online it’s critical to find ways to minimize its prevalence in this new...
View ArticleAcademic Dishonesty and Online Education (Part 2): Strategies for Supporting...
As academic dishonesty moves into the online space, institutional leaders need to leverage a combination of experience and emerging technologies to help keep digital students honest. This is the second...
View ArticleAcademic Dishonesty and Online Education (Part 3): UMUC’s Approach to Digital...
In order to adequately address academic dishonesty online, it’s critical to employ a multi-pronged approach that brings education, effective course and assessment design, and deterrence to the...
View ArticlePutting the Shine Back on the Academic Innovation Apple
While innovation is seen as a side project at many postsecondary institutions, it’s critical to increase the investment in institutional transformation and to provide units charged with experimenting...
View ArticleAcademic Transformation: It’s About Technology, With a Capital “T” (Part 1)
New technological innovations have been bursting onto the educational scene for more than a century, but they are rarely created or introduced in such a way that promises real change.Ask the average...
View ArticleAcademic Transformation: It’s About Technology, with a Capital “T” (Part 2)
Big-T Technology has the capacity to truly innovate postsecondary education, but the focus must be on larger innovations rather than smaller implementations. This is the conclusion of MJ Bishop’s...
View ArticleUnderstanding Innovation at the System and School Levels
While the end goal of innovation is similar for systems and institutions, their roles in achieving this end are related, but different. The following interview is with MJ Bishop, director of the Center...
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