learning outcomes Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/learning-outcomes/ A Blog by ACE Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:29:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png learning outcomes Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/learning-outcomes/ 32 32 How Centering Learner Success Helped Us Face a Year in Flux https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/10/13/how-centering-learner-success-helped-us-face-a-year-in-flux/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 19:24:12 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17678 By Lindsey P. Myers While launching a new program requires a great deal of thinking and planning, few would have imagined the sudden emergence of the global pandemic that upended all our well laid plans in 2020 and 2021. Fortunately, the inaugural cohort of the ACE Learner Success Lab (LSL) not only pivoted successfully to a virtual environment, but learned to ...

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]]> Guideposts for the COVID-19 Learning Transition https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/03/30/guideposts-covid-19-learning-transition/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:23:54 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16464 By Louis Soares In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, higher education scholars Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens raised fundamental and intriguing questions about how the COVID-19 crisis could drive a move to online instruction and perhaps signal deep changes coming to higher education’s business and academic models. Their focus on residential and selective institutions provides both ways ...

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]]> Community College of Denver Uses Digital Storytelling to Improve Student Outcomes https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/02/08/community-college-denver-uses-digital-storytelling-improve-student-outcomes/ Wed, 08 Feb 2017 15:28:23 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=7810 For more than 20 years, the Center for Digital Storytelling has worked in hundreds of colleges and universities across the country and around the world to introduce creative critical multimedia production into the classroom. Combining ancient narrative practices with new and emerging technological tools, digital storytelling emphasizes skills in writing, digital media production and design. It also helps students to develop both their ...

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]]> How to Explode a Myth: Reshaping the Conversation About the Liberal Arts https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/04/08/how-to-explode-a-myth-reshaping-the-conversation-about-the-liberal-arts/ Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:42:51 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=3078 AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider on how both our economy and our democracy depend on a liberal education. Higher education leaders now are living and leading in the context of increased public scrutiny, demands for greater public accountability, and a “new normal” of constrained resources. As even a casual reading of the news makes clear, presidents and educational leaders must redouble ...

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]]> Going Global https://www.higheredtoday.org/2014/02/10/going-global/ Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:06:18 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=1120 By Brad Farnsworth and Patti McGill Peterson The debate about accountability for higher education—particularly the controversy over outcomes measurement—extends well beyond the United States. With the extraordinary growth in higher-education demand and investment, especially in developing countries, the interest shown by organizations and governments has been correspondingly strong. In the absence of other measures, global rankings of universities have for some ...

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]]> Now What? Some Insights From OECD’s Adult Skills Survey https://www.higheredtoday.org/2013/12/03/now-what-some-insights-from-oecds-adult-skills-survey/ Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:54:33 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=880 By Jennifer Crandall & Louis Soares We’re not learning only in the classroom anymore—and maybe we never were. A new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report shows that throughout the world, the workplace is a critical learning environment. The question is, what does that mean for educational policy and adult learners? The OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of ...

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