Sharing Our Industry Insights...
Recognizing Key Higher Education Challenges. Like many industries, higher education and the Academy has been challenged by external forces worth noting. The opportunity is to address the challenges with thoughtful strategies and tactics.
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Recognizing the Social and Economic Trends Impacting Higher Education. Technology is disruptive because it forces us to accommodate change at some rate of speed. The approaching horizon varies by perspective, distance and vision.
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Credentials and Academic Credit Portability. Academic credentials are at the core of how we evaluate and reference passage through the postsecondary educational system and beyond to career training. AcademyOne addresses key questions, issues and recommendations for addressing the burdens and complexity of academic credit mobility with the goal of improving on the strengths of the U.S. higher education system.
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Student Mobility Matters. More than 60% of college students transfer at least once before earning an undergraduate degree in the United States. Student mobility matters because it is now the norm to transition between two, three or more institutions as one seeks to complete a credential. This phenomenon, driven by fundamental changes over the last twenty years in higher education, has created challenges for institutions as they attempt to address college affordability and improve degree completion.
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What is the Transfer Tax? The hidden cost of college transfer impacts students, institutions and states. AcademyOne suggests using cost of college transfer measures as a means to motivate and manage proactive transfer articulation initiatives.
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Addressing College Transfer Articulation Initiatives. There are many forms of initiatives that institutions and states pursue as they attempt to address 21st Century Learners. Mobility does matter. The variety and often competing initiatives create stress and confusion that can be mitigated by sequencing priority and attention.
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Navigating Education Pathways to a Degree. Navigating education pathways across institutions is now the norm and not the exception. Facing this new reality is challenging and complex given that the majority of resources are decentralized and lack the logistical systems needed to track mobility. We believe, once mapped, educational organizations and providers should voluntarily promote the new forms of guidance and tools that offer real-time disclosure and access. This is where technology can be an enabler and reduce the need for regulation. Read more...
Transforming College Transfer. AcademyOne launched CollegeTransfer.Net in 2005 as our first step in helping higher education transform college transfer from standalone and isolated processes to a shared community platform guided by systematic procedures. Since 2005, states and institutions have taken notice.
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Technology Can Be An Enabler For Change. It's not easy to trim costs when capacity issues abstract the complexity and use of resources and billions are at stake. Everyone lobbies for their projects. As administrations change, what was once a shining light of reform and innovation becomes the next target for cost reduction when public policy insights shift or political compromises take hold. The inefficiencies abound in stops and starts. Read more...
Marketing to Transfer Students. Prospective transfer students are everywhere on the web. They start and stop attending institutions, often moving around from state to state. They search for institutions willing to take their prior learning credit, and they seek special assistance. Explore how institutions are promoting their transfer profile, policies and information to the expanding transfer market. Read more...
Marketing Strategies Targeting Adults Returning to College. As college student persistance and graduation rates languish through a tough economy across many States and the number of adults in the workforce with some college experience continues to outpace all other higher education student markets, colleges and universities are targeting the growing adult market segment with innovative outreach methods. Read more...
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Technology Related Insights...
Connected Institutional Resources and Services. Most institutional data systems are standalone. They are well designed to serve the student interactions within the academic enterprise. Mobility magnifies the need to connect senders and receivers and to share information such as programs, courses, major requirements, transfer policies, articulation agreements and equivalencies in real-time. Student confusion, poor course planning and obvious blind spots contribute to transfer shock and frustration.
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Transfer Articulation Portals Questioned. All too often across higher education, we take the path of least resistance. How do we answer tough business questions and develop the methodology to address aligning competing self-interests? Bridging decentralized institutions and developing strategies to share a portal runs into resistance from many sides.
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What is a Learner Centric Architecture. Technology is an enabler. Generally, data systems are designed to serve institutional and governance through scope managed by users. We know learners transcend and overlap institutional boundaries and learning is not isolated to a single institution or single pathway to a career. This means that as institution's confer degrees and credentials, the implications of learning outside the regulated pathways they offer and support have to be considered. How should data systems be developed today to support 21st century learning?
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Untangling higher education software technology is not an easy topic. For decades, colleges and universities have been on the forefront of deploying computers and developing software for them. From the onset of the first mainframe to the advent of the internet, higher education has been a catalyst in developing and deploying technology driven by innovative thinkers and visionaries.
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Trends for the Future is an article about how we envision the future of technology, and how it will affect higher education. Here you will find how the world is becoming a global campus, and as a result how student credentials will follow them wherever they go. Learn how open technology will expand resources for learners. Discover how college and university success is growing and where we see the student “norm” evolving. View how we see the future impact of higher education merged with better technology.
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Imagining the Possibilities is a piece written by the Founder of AcademyOne, David K. Moldoff. Featured in this article is great insight into what makes AcademyOne what it is today. It illustrates how we believe technology, and its use by higher education, is developing into something new entirely. This is a great perspective on just what AcademyOne is.
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Higher Education Cloud Computing. More and more applications are moving into the cloud to support institutions, students, faculty and administrators. The trend is unmistakable and demonstrates how economies of scale help save costs, deliver improved services and bring greater access to information resources. Read more...
Technology Strategies for Recruiting Adult Students. Syndicating curriculum and transfer information so that adult learners will find it useful and aligned with their interests is a novel approach. All too often, we believe we need to develop specialized websites to attract target audiences through Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Adding another website destination to the internet is not the only way to market and promote institutional programs of study across a diverse adult learner market. Read more...
Building Smarter Prospective Student Portals. Today's academic programs of study are rarely standalone and self-contained. Academic programs must respect learning partnerships and prior learning. This means requirements and learning outcomes span institutional boundaries and practices, such as publishing transfer and articulation policies to study abroad partnerships. Intranets and portals are targeted business tools that generate new opportunities for collaboration and productivity. Read more...
Enabling Transfer Credit Frameworks Between Like Minded Institutions Permits Coursework to Be Shared Proactively. A Transfer Credit Framework is a beginning point, not an end point addressing transfer or degree completion strategies. The idea is to publish how foundational courses will count toward general requirements for most majors offered by one or more institutions. Transfer frameworks have gained popularity led by public college and university systems like PASSHE with the goal of reducing the complexity of transfer between institutions and the unintended impact on time to degree and costs. Read more...
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