Posts Tagged ‘Nellie Mae’
Interview with Nick Donohue of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation
by John O. Harney
June 15, 2010
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Nellie Mae Education Foundation President Nick Donohue to discuss the foundation’s new direction. This new direction focuses on "student-centered" learning opportunities exploring different ways to engage students, different places students learn and different people students connect with to help them achieve skills and knowledge. ...
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How to Develop Learners Who Are Consistently Curious and Questioning
by Jamie E. Scurry, Ariel Wilburn, Alex Villagomez and Mike McCarthy
December 21, 2010
In the U.S., postsecondary education has long driven individual social mobility and collective economic prosperity. Nonetheless, the nation’s labor force includes 54 million adults who lack a college degree; of those, nearly 34 million have no college experience at all. In the 21st century, these numbers cannot sustain us.
Returning to learning: Adults’ success ...
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