Posts Tagged ‘John O. Harney’
“University Unbound” Rebounds: Can MOOCs Educate as well as Train?
by George McCully
October 26, 2012
In the days since NEBHE convened hundreds of educators and opinion leaders in Boston for the University Unbound conference, we've received a surge of reactions including this one from George McCully, founder of the Catalogue for Philanthropy.
NEBHE has begun focusing the attention of New England institutions on the MOOC movement, which will affect them ...
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Former NEBHE Prez Bob Weygand to Leave URI Position
by John O. Harney
October 19, 2012
Former NEBHE President and U.S. Congressman Robert A. Weygand will leave his position as the University of Rhode Island's vice president for administration and finance at the end of the fiscal year in June 2013.
"I will have served in this role for more than nine years, a long time by national standards," he said. "I ...
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Developing Story: A Forum on Improving Remedial Education
by John O. Harney
October 2, 2012
Why is remedial or developmental education such a hot issue? Partly because it costs time and money and casts doubt on the elementary and secondary education systems that we assume will prepare students for college.
The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) explored solutions to the problem at a recent forum in Kennebunkport, Maine, called ...
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Tales from the BIF
by John O. Harney
September 25, 2012
Click here for videos of BIF-8 storytellers!
The Business Innovation Factory (BIF) held its eighth annual collaborative innovation summit on Sept. 19 and 20 in Providence, and the key, as always, was the art of storytelling. No themes, said summit facilitator and BIF founder and “chief catalyst” Saul Kaplan. You decide which connections you ...
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Humanitarian Efforts
by John O. Harney
July 30, 2012
If you won the lottery tomorrow, how would you spend your time?
Being a good social scientist, Jack Cheng, a former UMass Boston art historian, said he would go to Walmart, the new Peoria, and ask that question. “Most of them, after they buy a house, after they buy a car ... would go to the ...
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Trends & Indicators: High School Success
by NEBHE Staff
April 9, 2012
Updated April 2012 ...
New England public schools were expected to award more than 147,000 high school diplomas in 2008-09. Fully 78% of New England 9th-graders graduate from high school in the "normal" four years time, compared with 70% nationally. Nearly a dozen foreign countries outperform the U.S. in the percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds with a high ... Read MoreTags: Education Week, high school success, John O. Harney, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), OECD, Trends & Indicators | No Comments
Higher Ed’s Local and Regional Economic Impact: A NEBHE Conference and Recent Evidence
by John O. Harney
February 17, 2012
Our longstanding interest in the ways colleges and universities enrich their communities and the region will be on full display at NEBHE's April 3 conference on "Locally and Regionally Engaged: New England Colleges and Universities as Drivers of Innovation, Workforce and Economic Development." It promises to be a ...
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Learner-Centered Education Gets Super Push in Conn.
by John O. Harney
January 5, 2012
It may be known as the "Land of Steady Habits," but Connecticut's new habit in education in this new year looks like steady change.
Recently, Connecticut school superintendents advanced a package of 134 recommendations to replace the state's current school system with a “learner-centered” education program. The program would begin at age ...
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Trends & Indicators: Enrollment Period
by John O. Harney
December 21, 2011
Updated December 2011 ...
Since NEBHE began publishing tables and charts exploring “Trends & Indicators” in New England higher education more than a half-century ago, few figures have grabbed as much attention as college enrollment data. These local, state, regional and national data go beyond simple headcounts of students going to college to tell the ...
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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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