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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">January 24, 2013</span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vol. 1, Issue 66</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#009DD5"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?InsideTrack/5ee25deab2/0ba8c2ad86/5974b6366c/InsideTrack/5ee25deab2/TEST/5974b6366c"><span style="color:#009DD5">College Completion Must
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“'This is the first time in the history of modern higher education in which all the communities have come together — community colleges, research institutions, public universities and small liberal
arts colleges — and reached agreement that completion needs to be our most important priority,' said E. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University and chairman of the National Commission on Higher Education Attainment. Whether the report will lead
to change is unclear. But Molly C. Broad, president of the American Council on Education, said she believed it would create a new sense of urgency."</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"One of the dirty secrets about MOOCs - massive open online courses, is that they are not very effective, at least if you measure effectiveness in terms of completion rates. If as few as 20 percent
of students finishing an online course is considered a wild success and 10 percent and lower is standard, then it would appear that MOOCs are still more of a hobby than a viable alternative to traditional classroom education."</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"Community colleges are doing more with less, writes Walter Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, in <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Community
College Week</span></em>. But there are limits to what the hard-pressed system can do well. The fundamental question in analyzing the ever-evolving mission of the community college is, 'where do we draw the line?' Prepare students for transfer? Check. Deliver
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<p><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?InsideTrack/5ee25deab2/0ba8c2ad86/f68639c01e/InsideTrack/5ee25deab2/TEST/f68639c01e"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#009DD5">Colleges Must Pay More Heed to Needs of Adult Learners,
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"The needs of 'post-traditional learners' are being neglected amid all the attention being paid to MOOCs and other technological innovations in higher education, according to a new paper commissioned
by the American Council on Education and written by Louis Soares, a special policy adviser to Molly Corbett Broad, the ACE’s president. In the paper, 'Post-traditional Learners and the Transformation of Postsecondary Education: A Manifesto for College Leaders,' Mr.
Soares concludes that such adult learners, ages 25 to 64 and lacking a college credential, are being underserved by current higher-education institutions even as their share of enrollments grows—a trend that represents a much more significant shift than the
advent of new technologies for distance education."</span><br>
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