What can a student’s “demonstrated” interest tell you about their enrollment odds?

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, more and more institutions are evaluating a student’s “demonstrated” interest by their online behavior, including email open rates, click throughs, time on site, etc.

A decline in MBA interest has institutions shifting to specializations.

Reported by Education Dive, the University of Miami has added specializations in business analytics, finance and sustainable business to draw students concerned the traditional MBA isn’t relevant enough for their specific career ambitions.

Are low-income students truly priced out of higher education, or do they just wrongly assume they are?

Reported by Education Dive, the “sticker prices” of institutions may be scaring students away who would actually pay well below that. And students are leaving billions in potential aid money on the table because of it.

Reported by EdSurge, John Medina from the University of Washington School of Medicine, claims that if our goal is to change the cognitive understanding of our students’ minds, it is essential we engage in cognitive neuroscience at a high level when developing pedagogical best practices.

Reported by EdSurge, while technology and automation continue to change and threaten to change the future labor market, how can we make sure our institution’s curriculum stays relevant and forward-facing?

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a new study out of Indiana University at Bloomington found that for faculty who claim to have a “growth mindset”, meaning they believe that a student’s intelligence is not fixed, their students achieved significantly higher grades in STEM courses. And for underrepresented students, their achievement gap is almost halved when their professors hold this “growth mindset”.

Faculty who switch to competency-based learning courses often find themselves doing nothing else but teaching to the test.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, preparing students to successfully complete the final project or exam is the primary and often sole goal of a competency-based course.

Two professors from the University of Connecticut have been trying to figure out how to personalize instruction in their 750-student anatomy and physiology course for years.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, these professors have begun incorporating active learning exercises within the course itself.

For many institutions, their online tuition can be considerably more than their on-campus price.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, this creates an ethical question for rural students, for whom online education is their only true option.

International graduate enrollment has continued to decline for the second straight year.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, another 1% year-over-year drop has followed the prior year’s 1% drop.