Posts Tagged ‘assessment’
Implementing System-Level Graduation Standards
by Carol A. Moore and Karrin E. Wilks
November 21, 2011
Driven by external pressure for increased accountability and internal pressure for improved learning outcomes, colleges across the country have been developing and refining assessment systems for several decades. In some cases, assessment results have significant positive impact, for example, when used to enhance teaching and learning or as a lever for organizational change. In ...
Read MoreTags: assessment, Carol Moore, Castleton State, City University of New York, Community College of Vermont, graduation standards, Johnson State, Karrin Wilks, Lyndon State College, Vermont State Colleges | 1 Comment
Are We Ready for Charter Colleges?
by Jane Sjogren and James Fay
June 4, 2010
Editor’s Note: The Summer 2000 issue of Connection, NEJHE’s predecessor, included a series of pieces headlined “Charter Colleges: Evolution of a Plan,” exploring whether public colleges could operate more efficiently and produce higher quality educational results if they were freed from the controls imposed by state bureaucracies.
Community colleges are under increasing pressure today from a ...
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University Unbound! Higher Education in the Age of “Free”
by John O. Harney
October 23, 2012
Innovators and entrepreneurs are using technologies to make freely available the things for which universities charge significant money. MOOCs ... free online courses ... lecture podcasts ... low-cost off-the-shelf general education courses ... online tutorials ... digital collections of open learning resources ... open badges ... all are disrupting higher education's hold on knowledge, instruction ...
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