Lowering the price of education is important for enrollment numbers, retention, inclusivity and student success at every grade level. Offering used books, rentals, course packs and digital options can cut immediate costs, but adding open educational resources (OER) can take efforts a step above by enhancing learning and further decreasing expenses.
Course materials play a pivotal role in student success. Whether or not students have their materials by the start of class can have a significant impact on their ability to keep up with the course. It also affects how teachers are able to do their job. How have the recent changes in the educational landscape influenced course materials and students’ expectations?
Topics: Higher Ed, retention, enrollment, student success
The short answer: Yes. Research shows stellar fitness facilities and school wellness programs attract students and entice them to stay. Kids entering college now are more health conscious than ever. Generation Z — those born between 1995 and 2010 — has been targeted with public health campaigns detailing the horrors of obesity from a young age. They won’t want to attend a college that will derail efforts at good health begun in high school or earlier.
Topics: Higher Ed, retention, student success
As campus demographics evolve, it’s critical to ensure your student services are meeting the needs of a diverse population. An evaluation of your schools’ services could start with your campus writing center. Recent research shows the majority of campus writing centers use an approach that works great for privileged students — the middle class and wealthy — but tends to leave the less privileged in a lurch. Writing centers are failing where they’re most needed.
Topics: ed tech, adaptive courseware, student success
Adaptive learning is an intriguing idea. It is easy to see how the idea of utilizing technology to create a personalized learning process for students that adapts to the needs of the learner is a compelling one for educational institutions and students alike. After all, finding a way to reach and engage more students in a sustainable way is game changing.
Backorders are frustrating. The students are ready to buy the books — a hurdle in its own right — and now the book isn’t available. Options are limited on what to do next. Do they wait for the book to come in and potentially fall behind in class or look for it from another source? Neither option is ideal for your school or students.
Topics: retention, Non-traditional Students, student success
There are more nontraditional students on college campuses now than ever before. This hard-to-reach student demographic is serious, career-minded and often at-risk. Finding ways speak to these students helps schools boost retention and better serve the entire student population. Check out four of our most popular articles about nontraditional students below.
Topics: retention, student success, inclusive access
Colleges all over the country are looking at their retention rates, trying to figure out how to improve the numbers. With pressure coming from a growing number of states as they adopt outcome-based higher education funding strategies, schools need to figure out how to reach and help at-risk students succeed — but how?
Colleges face changes in the educational landscape daily. However, the current storm of revenue losses, student stressors and negative public perception has thrust many into uncharted territories. What are the issues facing today’s administration and what can be done to help?
Topics: Higher Ed, k12, student success, Rush
Rush season is upon you. Students have a week, or two, before classes start. You want to ensure they have the course materials they need to point them towards success in the classroom, but you don’t need to do it alone.
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