{"id":53797,"date":"2016-02-19T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=53797"},"modified":"2016-02-19T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:10:59","slug":"new-visionsstrategiesitems-re-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/02\/19\/new-visionsstrategiesitems-re-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"New visions\/strategies\/items re: higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some items from Bryan Alexander:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/shindig.com\/event\/ftf\" target=\"_blank\">Future Trends Forum<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bryanalexander.org\/2016\/02\/16\/today-the-new-future-trends-forum-with-richard-demillo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Today, the new Future Trends Forum, with Richard\u00a0DeMillo<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bryanalexander.org\/2016\/02\/15\/warpping-up-richard-demillos-revolution-in-higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">Warpping up Richard DeMillo\u2019s Revolution in Higher\u00a0Education<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"pageHeader\"><a href=\"http:\/\/evolllution.com\/doing-more-with-less-scaling-higher-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>[Mini Feature] Doing more with less: Scaling higher ed<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from evoLLLution.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Today\u2019s students expect their entire experience with an institution to mirror what they see from major online retailers and service providers; personalized, supportive and flexible. However, institutions are having to deliver on these heightened expectations with smaller budgets and less capacity to increase prices than ever before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Scaling is absolutely critical for higher education institutions in today\u2019s marketplace. Through scaling, institutions can \u201cdo more with less\u201d\u2014they can meet the sky-high expectations of today\u2019s discerning students while keeping their costs and prices low.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This Feature highlights some of the approaches today\u2019s institutions are taking to achieving scale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2016-02-18\/reimagining-the-federal-student-loan-system\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A new vision for paying for higher education<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from usnews.com by Lauren Camera<br \/>\n<em>How do you\u00a0build the federal student loan system from the ground up?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As it stands now, the current system for financing higher education is particularly unfair for poor students, many of whom are forced to borrow more money than their wealthier peers, graduate at a much lower rate and go into default at a much higher rate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To be sure, the average six-year graduation rate for students seeking a bachelor&#8217;s degree is 59.4 percent, but a recent survey of more than 1,000 public and private four-year colleges found that only 51 percent of Pell recipients graduate. And at community colleges, only 23 percent of first-time, full-time students ever receive a degree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2016-01-24\/it-time-colleges-withdraw-their-outdated-schedules\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Is it time for colleges to withdraw from their outdated schedules?<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from pri.org by Caroline Lester<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We asked a few college grads what they\u2019d like to change about the current system. Their answers spanned from increasing accessibility, to eliminating lectures, to creating greater support services for students at risk of dropping out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That last point is key: the vast majority of students who start college don\u2019t graduate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Community college, state schools, and private universities \u2014 six-year completion rates are falling. To Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, this means something is wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Crow believes that the best way to address America\u2019s higher education woes is to lower the cost of a college education while personalizing teaching. He proposes three big changes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecampusnews.com\/top-news\/feb-19-news-492\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Credentialing, free tuition top this week\u2019s news<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from ecampusnews.com by Laura Devaney<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some items from Jeff Selingo:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/today\/author\/17000124?trk=vsrp_people_res_pri_act_posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53827\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53827\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JeffSelingo-Feb2016.jpg\" alt=\"JeffSelingo-Feb2016\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JeffSelingo-Feb2016.jpg 744w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JeffSelingo-Feb2016-150x118.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A brief excerpt from newsletter from one of Michigan&#8217;s Senators, Debbie Stabenow:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">62 percent of students in Michigan graduate #InTheRed with student loan debt. A student who graduated from a 4-year Michigan college or university in 2014 owes on average almost $30,000 in loans, making Michigan 9th in the country on average student loan debt.\u00a0 Student loan debt in the United States is over $1.3 trillion and is the 2nd highest form of consumer debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>&#8230;and back from March 2015:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/03\/radically-rethinking-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53846\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53846\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RethinkingHE-March2015.jpg\" alt=\"RethinkingHE-March2015\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RethinkingHE-March2015.jpg 972w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RethinkingHE-March2015-150x105.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RethinkingHE-March2015-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some items from Bryan Alexander: Future Trends Forum Today, the new Future Trends Forum, with Richard\u00a0DeMillo Warpping up Richard DeMillo\u2019s Revolution in Higher\u00a0Education &nbsp; &nbsp; [Mini Feature] Doing more with less: Scaling higher ed &#8212; from evoLLLution.com Excerpt: Today\u2019s students expect their entire experience with an institution to mirror what they see from major online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,86,57,159,211,36,35,3,385,239,201,436,310,206,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-change","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-funding-grants","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-michigan","category-new-business-models","category-policy","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-trends","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53797"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53852,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53797\/revisions\/53852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}