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Learning at Westminster: Why high schools will be the next major innovators in higher education
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Saturday, March 30, 2013. Why high schools will be the next major innovators in higher education. Nearly all of the press about innovation in higher ed is focused on technology firms- Coursera. Or any of the many other MOOC providers, for example, or new low-cost online institutions like the University of the People. High school teachers, on the whole, have more training and ex...
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Learning at Westminster: The college president as enrollment leader
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Monday, April 1, 2013. The college president as enrollment leader. The following things are true:. College presidents are, above all else, responsible to ensure that their institutions earn enough revenue,. More revenue comes to nearly every college from enrollment than from fundraising,. College presidents spend more time raising funds than enrolling students. Hosting prospect...
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Learning at Westminster: Learning from low-cost private universities
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Monday, March 18, 2013. Learning from low-cost private universities. Most people believe that private higher education is too expensive. Their suggestions for reducing costs fall into two categories:. Add very low-cost online courses. Generates lists of the private institutions with the lowest tuition and the lowest net costs. What do these schools share? Instead, their aspirat...
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Learning at Westminster: Learning at Westminster comes to a close
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Sunday, July 21, 2013. Learning at Westminster comes to a close. After seven years, five different jobs, and nearly 300 blog posts, I am ending Learning at Westminster. Tomorrow I start work as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Barton College. In Wilson, NC. I will take up blogging again at www.garydaynes.com. Best wishes to all of you,. Thanks for all your wor...
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Learning at Westminster: Does nostalgia for the 1960s drive MOOCs?
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Friday, July 5, 2013. Does nostalgia for the 1960s drive MOOCs? I am not, in this post, primarily concerned with whether MOOCs are good things. Rather, I am interested in an assumption shared by both fans and foes. MOOCs recall the dream that huge numbers of students can learn from a single professor. MOOCs look back to a time when top-tier American research universities set th...
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Learning at Westminster: February 2013
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Monday, February 18, 2013. Why we need less "educational TV" and more "TV about education". I've been on the road a bit in the past month, and thus I have fed my insomnia with unhealthy doses of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, CNBC, and other lesser lights of the 24/7 news cycle (not to mention more SportsCenter than a human ought to ever watch). My conclusion? On the other hand, for all...
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Learning at Westminster: May 2013
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Do colleges take from the poor and give to the rich? S article, " How colleges take from the poor, give to the rich. In the 24 May 13 issue of the Deseret News. Is a perfect example of what can happen when a journalist meets a think tank report. The report's assumptions go unexamined, its examples become universals, and its conclusions become truth.
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Learning at Westminster: October 2012
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Your vote is not your voice. The National Campus Voter Registration Project. Is an effort of 50 leading higher education organizations. To increase voter registration and turnout among college students. Its slogan? Your Vote, Your Voice. While it is a lovely slogan, it is exactly not true that "your voice is your vote." Your voice. Third, a vote hid...
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Learning at Westminster: Do colleges take from the poor and give to the rich?
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Do colleges take from the poor and give to the rich? S article, " How colleges take from the poor, give to the rich. In the 24 May 13 issue of the Deseret News. Is a perfect example of what can happen when a journalist meets a think tank report. The report's assumptions go unexamined, its examples become universals, and its conclusions become truth.
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Learning at Westminster: Seven ways service can make communities smarter
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A blog about teaching, learning, and leadership in higher education, originating from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. Friday, May 17, 2013. Seven ways service can make communities smarter. The following post is a distillation of my opening remarks at the 2013 Central Region Conference on Service, held on 9 May 2013 in West Valley City. Thanks to the organizers for the opportunity to participate in the conference.). I would like to propose an additional explanation, one that doesn’t get t...
