October 29, 2024 • 0 comments

Affordability, Sustainability, & Student Outcomes in Higher Ed

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Funding
  • With rising conflicts over issues like book bans, schools are spending heavily on security, legal fees, and staff turnover nationwide. Learn more here.
  • Pandemic-era funding proves early learning is a powerful investment. Discover how federal relief has supported gains in childcare access and educational quality here.
  • Campus debt is growing. As schools take on more debt, tuition spikes and staff cuts follow. Learn how this trend could impact public higher education here.
Innovation, Trends, & Tools
  • Can technology restore student faith in higher education? Discover how universities are using digital equity and job readiness programs to change perceptions here.
  • Freshman enrollment drops sharply this fall—what’s behind it? Read about FAFSA issues, rising costs, and new admissions rules here.
  • This company’s new paid training program seeks to tackle cybersecurity’s hiring gap. With guaranteed placement, this initiative prioritizes job-readiness. Learn more here.

The Course Materials Corner with Dr. Mike Moore

Academic Researcher | Course Materials Intervention Strategist | Higher Education Consultant

As you are reading this today, I am getting ready for two incredible presentations at the National Association of College Auxiliary Services conferencein Orlando. I will be presenting the importance of nurturing and looking after your Equitable Access course materials program with a continued focus on affordability. Equitable Access programs are not crockpots; you can’t simply set them and forget them. They require tending like an award-winning garden.

The other presentation will be about new research on Equitable Access from a student outcome perspective and a sustainability perspective. The focus is three-pronged: People, Planet, Profit. Unfortunately, sustainability is not scalable without the element of profit.

The new Equitable Access study used Interrupted Time Series and Multilevel Regression to analyze the impact on student outcomes in a pre/post environment. With respect to student outcomes, there were two important findings: 1) Overall, students were 12% more likely to achieve a letter grade of C or better post-implementation and 2) Where the course modality was face-to-face, students were 9% more likely to achieve a letter grade of C or better post-implementation. This study has opened a whole new line of inquiry for us as a research team that we are looking forward to applying to future research.

If you are going to be at NACAS C3X, make sure you stop by Lafatette 4/5 at 1:45pm today (10/29) for our session titled Equitable Futures: UIW’s Sustainable Course Material Model. If you cannot be there, I look forward to seeing you in the next edition of The EdTech Pulse.

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