Trends in Learning

Multiyear Study of Community-College Practices Asks: What Helps Students Graduate?

Submitted by admin on Feb 02 4:18pm GMT

Original article written by Jennifer Gonzalez for http://chronicle.com 
Community colleges are brimming with programs and policies designed to help students complete their studies. Practices like requiring orientation and establishing early-academic-warning systems have sprouted since 2009, when President Obama announced that he wanted to make the United States the best-educated country in the world by 2020.

Community colleges are brimming with programs and policies designed to help students complete their studies. Practices like requiring orientation and establishing early-academic-warning systems have sprouted since 2009, when President Obama announced that he wanted to make the United States the best-educated country in the world by 2020.

MITx Could Revolutionize Higher Education

Submitted by admin on Jan 31 1:56pm GMT

Original article was written by Kevin Carey for The Chronicle, questions asked by AntiWorldNews
MIT has invented or improved many world-changing things—radar, information theory, and synthetic self-replicating molecules, to name a few. Last month the university announced, to mild fanfare, an invention that could be similarly transformative, this time for higher education itself. It’s called MITx. In that small lowercase letter, a great deal is contained.
 

MIT has invented or improved many world-changing things—radar, information theory, and synthetic self-replicating molecules, to name a few. Last month the university announced, to mild fanfare, an invention that could be similarly transformative, this time for higher education itself. It’s called MITx.

Hollege? Holleer? What Matters Are Mentors

Submitted by admin on Jan 25 1:45pm GMT

This original article was written by Rashid F. Davis for The New York Times
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will have a new model of education as part of his legacy. In September 2010, Mayor Bloomberg made the announcement on television that a unique collaboration had been made by the City University of New York and IBM to create a high school-college hybrid that merges high school with two years of college, allowing students to earn an associate’s degree.