1) Online and blended learning enrollment in K-12 schools has grown substantially between 2005-2008 and is projected to continue growing significantly through 2016. 2) The study examines the role of online learning in addressing issues facing American high schools, such as low graduation rates that have been described as a "crisis". 3) Survey results found that high school administrators see benefits of online and blended learning programs for providing course access, differentiated instruction, and helping at-risk students recover credits to graduate.
Assessing the costs of public higher education in the commonwealth of virgini...Robert M. Davis, MPA
Part 4 in a series of whitepaper research examining the costs of public higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Loan borrowing has become the means in which to cope which costs increases. Loan borrowing may be one of the primary options available to finance the costs of higher education, there are risks associated with this option; recent research identifies that those risks may be growing.
This presentation focuses less on the "nitty gritty" aspects of applying to college, and instead focuses on how to give advice regarding major decisions. It addresses various misconceptions about college to ensure students can make informed decisions.
ENC 1102 THIS PAPER SPELLED OUT THE POSITION / TUTORIALOUTLET DOT COMalbert0055
ENC 1102 Author Note
This paper was prepared for English Composition 1, taught by Professor Heredia.
Are the High Prices of Attending to College in The United States Worth It? PAYING FOR COLLEGE 2
Abstract This paper spelled out the position of the millions of students that nowadays are struggling
because of the higher prices of attending to college in United Stated.
Converge 2014: Online College Students: Implications for Marketing and Recrui...Converge Consulting
Online College Students 2014: Implications for Marketing and Recruitment
CAROL ASLANIAN & SCOTT JEFFE
Who goes to school online? Why? What do they want and need? Answering these questions could help you grow your online programs by better targeting your marketing and increasing conversions. This session will present key findings from a new national report, conducted by Aslanian Market Research and The Learning House, Inc.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
What today’s “typical” online college students look like, and the major ways in which they are both different and similar to traditional students
What are the most powerful marketing messages to reach this audience
What are the most popular online subject areas and degree programs
What will you do if you can no longer use print communications in student recruitment?
This presentation uses illustrations from 23 colleges & universities to build a comprehensive online communication plan, for the time of a first website visit to orientation and selecting a roommate.
6 facts you must know about student loans and college debtpauldylan06
Currently, there is a call for a more affordable college education, which makes sense. It comes on the heels of a recession that undercut the value of a college education. Even those with a college degree were not immune to the financial hit that the economy took and those still paying off their student loans were often left without the very job they had always assumed would pay off their educational debts. To know more facts about college loans visit http://www.theedadvocate.org/6-facts-you-must-know-about-student-loans-and-college-debt/
Assessing the costs of public higher education in the commonwealth of virgini...Robert M. Davis, MPA
Part 4 in a series of whitepaper research examining the costs of public higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Loan borrowing has become the means in which to cope which costs increases. Loan borrowing may be one of the primary options available to finance the costs of higher education, there are risks associated with this option; recent research identifies that those risks may be growing.
This presentation focuses less on the "nitty gritty" aspects of applying to college, and instead focuses on how to give advice regarding major decisions. It addresses various misconceptions about college to ensure students can make informed decisions.
ENC 1102 THIS PAPER SPELLED OUT THE POSITION / TUTORIALOUTLET DOT COMalbert0055
ENC 1102 Author Note
This paper was prepared for English Composition 1, taught by Professor Heredia.
Are the High Prices of Attending to College in The United States Worth It? PAYING FOR COLLEGE 2
Abstract This paper spelled out the position of the millions of students that nowadays are struggling
because of the higher prices of attending to college in United Stated.
Converge 2014: Online College Students: Implications for Marketing and Recrui...Converge Consulting
Online College Students 2014: Implications for Marketing and Recruitment
CAROL ASLANIAN & SCOTT JEFFE
Who goes to school online? Why? What do they want and need? Answering these questions could help you grow your online programs by better targeting your marketing and increasing conversions. This session will present key findings from a new national report, conducted by Aslanian Market Research and The Learning House, Inc.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
What today’s “typical” online college students look like, and the major ways in which they are both different and similar to traditional students
What are the most powerful marketing messages to reach this audience
What are the most popular online subject areas and degree programs
What will you do if you can no longer use print communications in student recruitment?
This presentation uses illustrations from 23 colleges & universities to build a comprehensive online communication plan, for the time of a first website visit to orientation and selecting a roommate.
6 facts you must know about student loans and college debtpauldylan06
Currently, there is a call for a more affordable college education, which makes sense. It comes on the heels of a recession that undercut the value of a college education. Even those with a college degree were not immune to the financial hit that the economy took and those still paying off their student loans were often left without the very job they had always assumed would pay off their educational debts. To know more facts about college loans visit http://www.theedadvocate.org/6-facts-you-must-know-about-student-loans-and-college-debt/
TTitle: A Study of Faculty Governance Leaders' Perceptions of Online and Blen...apicciano
This powerpoint was used in the presentation at the Online Learning Consortium's Annual Conference in 2015. The presentation was based on a survey conducted of faculty governance leaders in American colleges and universities.
Blending with Purpose: The Multimodal Modelapicciano
This presentation was made at the 14th Annual Sloan Consortium Conference held in Orlando in November 2008. It was the keynote presentation for the workshop on Blended Learning.
K-12 Online Learning: A Follow Up of the 2008 Survey of U.S. School District ...apicciano
This presentation, K-12 Online Learning: A Follow Up of the 2008 Survey of U.S. School District Administrators, was made at the 15th Annual Sloan-C Conference in October 2009 by Anthony G. Picciano and Jeff Seaman as part of a panel on K-12 Online Learning Growth: Implications for Higher Education and Professional Development.
The study referenced above was the second of three national studies being conducted on the extent and nature of online learning in American K-12 education.
What's Happening with K-12 Online Learning in CaliforniaRob Darrow
K-12 online learning in California is slowly making traction. Two recent dissertations researched K-12 online learning in California by Kelly Schwirzke and Rob Darrow are shared in this presentation.
Running Head EVOLVING NEEDS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS1EV.docxtodd271
Running Head: EVOLVING NEEDS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS1
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Evolving needs of Community College Students
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Evolving Needs of Community College Students
Historical Background
Community colleges were initially not distinctly identified on their own. Until the Clinton reforms of community colleges in the 1980s, community colleges were no different from junior colleges. The programs and organizational culture were not as developed, and the student needs were rarely attended to in the diverse way that they are today (Gavazzi et al., 2018). Students were assumed to be homogenous, with either a low economic background or substantially flat academic prowess. After the recognition and reinstatement as accredited institutions of merit, community college missions changed and became more student-centered.
The core programs were initially only vocational and for transfer to university purposes. Developmental education was not adequately developed, yet it contributed in a massive way to student retention and the student's ability to finish the program and progress to higher education. Community colleges have been very rigid in their approach to learning, governance, and even administration (Beach, 2011). Most of the changes that occur do not affect the entire institution but are marginalized to transform only a select few. These changes either influence a certain courses based on profitability or the trends in the business world, but rarely extend to other programs within the colleges.
Fiscal policies in community colleges are primarily dependent on the federal government because community college facilities are supposed to encourage the most economically disadvantaged. Tuition is very low compared to the capacity building needed to run the institutions, and the result is that the community colleges suffer from an ultimate shortage in the facility and consolidated programs that undermine the skill sets offered to the students (O'Banion, 2019). Traditionally this has been crippling the system’s ability to change the approach in which the curriculum, administration and governance is run.It creates a shortage of staff for capacity building purposes and an overall decline in the quality of education offered within the institution.
Current issues
Current issues relating to students' evolving needs include student performances that have been diverse depending on factors such as program choice. Programs in health sciences, for instance, have seen a very consistent high-performance culture that has been aided by the level of competency that the students in the courses (Fugle & Falk, 2015). About 98 percent of the students in classes such as a physician assistant, physical and occupational therapy, radiologic technicians, and nursing assistance have seen a very high return on investment in terms of their absorption into the workforce or their progression into b.
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Article 8
Education for All? 2-Year Colleges Struggle to Preserve Their Mission. (Cover story)
The open-door policy at community colleges is unique in American highereducation. It allows all comers--a retired grandmother, an Army veteran, a laid-off machinist--to learn a skill or get a credential. That broad access--the bedrock of the community-college system--has prepared hundreds of millions of people for transfer to four-year colleges or entry into the work force.
But these days, the sector finds itself in a fight to save that signature trademark. As budgets dwindle and the pressure to graduate more students grows, community-college educators from instructors to presidents worry about the future. Less state and local money is making its way to college coffers, prompting painful choices. And the clarion call for the sector to produce more graduates, part of a nationwide effort to boost education levels, has forced colleges to use scarce resources for degree programs rather than for remedial courses.
The focus now is on the best-prepared students, and not on those who may never graduate. Community colleges foresee a day when access to all is no longer the norm but the exception.
"Community colleges are being hammered to increase graduation rates," says Gary D. Rhoades, a professor of highereducation at the University of Arizona, who also works with the Center for the Future of HigherEducation, a research group. "One way to do that is to change the sort of student you serve." Such a shift would profoundly affect the millions of low-income and minority students who look to attend community colleges every year, many of whom need remedial education first.
In a report in February, the American Association of Community Colleges sounded the alarm on how the national completion agenda is starting to affect community colleges. "In policy conversations," it said, "there is a silent movement to redirect educational opportunity to those students deemed 'deserving.' "
That is an uncomfortable thought for a sector that prides itself on being all things to all people all the time: offering English-language classes for immigrants and enrichment programs for senior citizens. But early evidence suggests that some community colleges are already making judgment calls about whom they educate, and how.
Many of those decisions center on remedial education, long an obstacle to improving graduation rates. Academically unprepared students are usually required to enroll in a sequence of remedial courses to get ready for college-level work. More than 60 percent of students at two-year colleges are steered into developmentaleducation, according to the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College. Because a considerable number of students place into the bottom rung of those courses, it tends to take them a year or more to complete the sequence. Many fail, or do not progress, and just drop out.
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High Schools Have Increasingly Become College Preparatory Institutionsnoblex1
The American high school has been a remarkably resilient institution, maintaining its basic structure even as its mission and the world around it have experienced dramatic transformations. One hundred years ago, only about 10 percent of adolescents enrolled in high school, which served then as a direct pathway to improved social and economic standing. In the succeeding decades, as states enacted compulsory attendance laws, the proportion of students enrolled in high schools grew. As the American population collected in urban areas, progressives endorsed education as the key to the advancement of civilization and high school completion as the best avenue to success in the industrial economy. By 1940, the percentage of adolescents enrolled in high schools had reached 70 percent, an unprecedented explosion in enrollment.
Mass high school enrollment had profound effects on the education establishment. First, the high school emerged as a centerpiece in the development of a literate citizenry and a burgeoning middle class. Unlike European high schools, which had their origins as institutions designed to prepare students for university admission, the American high school was a major force in the country's transition from an agrarian society to a more industrial one, centered first in the cities and then in the suburbs. At the same time, however, high schools began to feel the strain of rapid enrollment growth. Thousands of students who might otherwise have dropped out of school to pursue careers suddenly became the responsibility of the high schools. The public increased its demand for more practical learning, which led to the development and rapid expansion of manual learning programs that prepared urban students for industrial trades and rural students for agriculture and rural life. An educated citizenry being thought indispensable to a healthy democracy, high schools were also called on to prepare their students for civic participation. Related to this, the influx of non-English speaking immigrants into public schools, including high schools, also gave the schools a central role in assimilating children into American life. In yet another added area of responsibility, high schools instituted the college preparatory curriculum, which remains largely intact today, although transformed within individual disciplinary areas. Seeking to balance these many competing demands and interests became the singular concern of high school educators. Either unable or unwilling to prioritize these varied and distinct missions, high schools became the repository for society's competing hopes and aspirations for the future generation. The outcome was the comprehensive high school, which addresses the multiple educational needs of students who come to its door, in part, by separating and teaching them according to their perceived intellectual abilities.
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5. Trend Line – School Districts Adopting Online Courses
6. Trend Line – School Districts Adopting Blended Courses
7. Class Connections: High School Reform and the Role of Online Learning The purpose of the third study was to examine the role of online learning in addressing issues facing the American high school. Data were collected from a national sample of high school principals (N=441) with respect to the extent, nature, and reasons for participating in online learning programs. Question: Why Study High Schools?
8. Is the American High School an Institution in Crisis? “ the most serious problem is the persistent low graduation rates in American high schools…In a report published by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston and the Alternate Schools Network in Chicago , the high school dropout problem was deemed a ‘crisis’ that is having a detrimental life-long economic impact on individuals as well as on the American society at large. “ Center for Labor Market Studies . (May 5, 2009). Left behind: The nation’s dropout crisis. (May 5, 2009). Boston: Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University and the Alternate Schools Network in Chicago. Retrieved from: http://www.clms.neu.edu/publication/documents/CLMS_2009_Dropout_Report.pdf
9. Is the American High School an Institution in Crisis? President Barak Obama in his first major address on American education after assuming the presidency, pleaded with American youth that: “ dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country; and this country needs and values the talents of every American.” Obama, B. (February, 2009). Address to a joint session of the United States Congress. Retrieved from: www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/remarks-ofpresident-barack-obama-address-to-joint-session-of-congress.
10. Is the American High School an Institution in Crisis? The United States Congress in March 2009, the extent of the high school graduation problem was described as: “… About 1,230,000 secondary school students, which is approximately one-third of all secondary school students, fail to graduate with their peers every year. According to the Department of Education, the United States secondary school graduation rate is the lowest the rate has been since 2002… … The graduation rates for historically disadvantaged minority groups are far lower than that of their White peers. Little more than half of all African-American and Hispanic students will finish secondary school on time with a regular secondary school diploma compared to over three-quarters of White students.“ Bill S-618 Introduced in the United States Senate (March 17, 2009). Title of the Bill: To improve the calculation of, the reporting of, and the accountability for secondary school graduation rates. 111th Congress, 1st Session. Retrieved from: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc111/s618_is.xml
11. Figure 5. Summary of Responses to: How important do you believe each of the following items would be in offering or potentially offering online and blended/hybrid courses ? Why Online or Blended Courses?
12. Figure 8. Types of online courses offered by percentage of the schools with the offerings. Types of Online Courses Being Offered
13. Figure 9. Types of blended courses offered by percentage of the schools with the offerings. Types of Blended Courses Being Offered
14. Figure 7. Summary of Responses to: How important do you believe each of the following items would be in offering or potentially offering online and blended/hybrid courses? cross tabulated by the location of the school . Location, Location, Location
15. Figure 10. Types of online courses offered by percentage of the schools with the offerings cross tabulated by location. Urban School Districts and Credit Recovery
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Editor's Notes
Ask audience how many of them had read: Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns Author(s): Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York ISBN: 0071592067, Pages: 288, Year: 2008 The high point of the book is the vision of a student-centric learning system presented in the fifth chapter. Here the authors outline the key elements not only of student-centric computer-based learning applications, but also of a transformed educational sector consisting of schools surrounded and supported by networks to facilitate “user-generated, collaborative learning libraries through which participants worldwide can instruct and learn from one another.” Christensen, Horn, and Johnson look for the fruits of such networks to move to the mainstream by 2014. Among the most provocative aspects of this book are the predictions that by the year 2014 (p. 143) about one-quarter of all high school courses will be online and that by the year 2019 (p. 98) about one-half of all high school courses will be online. Christensen’s seminal book The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), which first outlined his disruptive innovation frameworks, received the Global Business Book Award for the Best Business Book of the Year in 1997, was a New York Tim es bestseller, has been translated into over 10 languages, and is sold in over 25 countries.
The high school graduation rate is symptomatic of a number of other issues – student engagement, preparation for higher education/careers, social/economic conditions, etc.