If you work in higher education, you’ve probably heard a lot about “big data” – a catch-all term for analyzing massive sets of gradebook, registrar and demographic information to identify patterns and trends in learner performance. Sounds intimidating, right? Big data proponents say these techniques will revolutionize colleges and universities by helping them admit the […]
This September, Tutor.com Client Services Manager, Jerin Jones, hit the road with colleague Alicia Conley to visit clients in the great states of Texas and Oklahoma! Five days on the road gave Jerin the opportunity to get up close and personal with clients, old and new, to talk about student success and what’s in store […]
Have you seen that commercial that says, “What if you could prevent cancer by eating just one piece of broccoli? What if you could lose weight by doing one sit up?”? In the education world, we could substitute, “What if you could be a good writer by writing just one essay? What if you could […]
How do you define success? Failure? Success can be seen as doing your best in learning and improving, or it can be viewed as winning because you are talented. Failure can be seen as a setback that is motivating, a wake-up call or it can be something that causes you to doubt your natural talent […]
As any student-success team can tell you, migrating from one learning management system to another can be a real pain. It’s expensive, time-consuming, and almost impossible to accomplish without involving everyone from IT, to instructional design, to individual faculty members. Worse still, between rebuilding your course templates, training instructors and staff on updated workflows, and […]
Educational buzz words come and go. Remember “the new math,” “whole language vs phonics,” and “emotional intelligence”? What exactly is “personalized” or “individualized” learning, and is this just another educational fad? “Learning is about biology,” to quote James Zull, Professor of Biology and of Biochemistry, Director of The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and […]
