The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of individuals, institutions and organizations of higher education committed to quality online education, recently presented its 2012 Effective Practice Awards at the 5th Annual International Symposium for Emerging Technolo... More »

Higher Education , Learning Technologies

Faculty , E-Learning , Intermediate-level Content , Students , Trends

The approach described in this article builds off the “co-op” idea started at Northeastern University. Having senior leaders engage with a group on their experiential learning is a perfect fit. In a recent case using this approach, we had a series of six lea... More »

Senior Leaders & Executives , Higher Education

Advanced Level Content , Faculty , Leadership Development

ASTD is accepting speaking proposal submissions for next year’s conference in Dallas, Texas. An entire track will be dedicated to issues involved with higher education. Here is a list of topics in search of speakers. More »

Higher Education

Faculty , Students , Training and Development - General

MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses, which a recent New York Times article “Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls” described as “a tool for democratizing higher education.” I am sure that most of you are already familiar with MO... More »

Higher Education , Learning Technologies

Beginner Level Content , Faculty , Trends , E-Learning

In a Re:Search article in July’s T+D, I report on a study that showed  that managers applied their knowledge only 32% of the time. (See Shocking Evidence of Managers’ Knowing-Doing Gap.) It got me thinking… how much do we apply our knowledge of L... More »

Workforce Development , Higher Education , Senior Leaders & Executives , Learning & Development

Skills Gap , Management Development , Faculty , Competencies , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Managing the Learning Function

Research , Evidence-Based Best Practices