“Pervasively improving performance requires coordinated measurement, intervention, and action across the entire education / workforce spectrum.”
This article is a companion piece to the article “Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance That Matters in Higher Education,” which describes the emergence of a new generation of tools, solutions, and behaviors that are giving rise to more powerful and effective utilities through which colleges and universities can measure performance and provoke pervasive actions to improve it.
Read MoreAdaptive systems have the potential to shift education in the service of students by providing a student-centric design. The student-centered capabilities these systems aspire to provide are vastly unlike the current models for traditional classroom support—models deeply rooted in student administration. The underlying data systems and transaction timing (e.g., gradebook, end-of-course exams) are radically different from the real-time, learner-specific data that forms the foundation of student-centered learning.
Read MoreThe world has become increasingly "flat," as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive. But at the same time that the world has become flatter, it has also become "spikier": the places that are globally competitive are those that have robust local ecosystems of resources supporting innovation and productiveness. A key part of any such ecosystem is a well-educated workforce with the requisite competitive skills. And in a rapidly changing world, these ecosystems must not only supply this workforce but also provide support for continuous learning and for the ongoing creation of new ideas and skills.
Read MoreHow can we put more action into analytics? Six primary actions are needed to evolve from the current generation of academic analytics (tools, solutions, and services) to action analytics.
Read MoreThe future of LMS design in public education will in part be defined by how we trade off the administration and knowledge- creation capabilities of e-learning. LMS 3.0 design cannot sacrifice one ideal for the other.
Read MoreLike its companion, The Experts’ Guide to the K-12 School Market, this publication is a collection of articles from industry experts. Articles providing a general overview of issues in the Higher Education market are followed by chapters on Business Strategies, Product Development, Marketing and Sales.
Read MoreHow can the use of digital technologies in postsecondary education impact students’ access to education, student out- comes, and the return on investment for students and institutions?
What are the biggest challenges for an institution seeking to implement high-quality digital learning opportunities? What promising practices enable an institution to achieve impact at a larger scale?
Those are the questions that fueled this research study, conducted by the Arizona State University Foundation and The Boston Consulting Group, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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