Illuminating LifeLong Learning: The EvoLLLution

The EvoLLLution is an online community dedicated to advancing discussion around lifelong learning, continuing education and professional development

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Committed to Online Student Success: Providing Coaching to Help Students Succeed

Coaches can help adult students navigate their higher education experience with ease, often supporting students to degree completion.

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The Continuing Education Leader: Entrepreneurial Versus Invitational

While continuing education units may seem overly fixated on revenue-generation, they are typically grounded in moral ethics and transcend mere entrepreneurialism with an infusion of invitation.

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Insights into the Motivation of Online Learners

There are a number of advantages that adult students bring to an online classroom, from the ability to help mentor and guide younger students to the influence of their hard-working and determined attitude.

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Serving the Next Generation Workforce

It is becoming increasingly difficult for higher education institutions to ensure that their programming keeps pace with the changing needs of the workforce but as ongoing employee education becomes increasingly important, higher education institutions must adapt to fulfill that need.

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Undergraduate Students And Workplace Preparedness

Higher education institutions would do well to ensure that their undergraduate programs contain elements of workforce preparedness learning so that students can transition from the college to the workforce.

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Beware the Whammy-Induced Frisky Squirrel Syndrome

Whammy-Induced Frisky Squirrel Syndrome can affect anyone at any time, and it is important for administrators to remain constantly aware of their main goals otherwise it becomes very easy to veer significantly off-track.

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Adapting Professional Development to a Faster-Paced World

As higher education institutions strive to improve their professional development offerings, institutions should look to providing just-in-time learning opportunities that give students more choice when it comes to content and delivery method.

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AUDIO | Supporting Non-Traditional Students and the Workforce with Federal Grants

As the need for highly-skilled labor in certain industries grow, higher education institutions can help employers meet their need for employees by delivering specialized programs geared toward those high-demand industries. Governments also play a part in delivering these learning opportunities by supporting institutions with targeted grants.

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Integrating 3D Objects and Animations into the Virtual Learning Environment

The ability to teach with virtually-rendered 3D objects has huge implications for the future of STEM education.

http://www.evolllution.com/media_resources/integrating-3d-objects-and-animations-into-the-virtual-learning-environment/

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Overcoming the Critical Need for Better Support of Military Spouses in Higher Education

Spouses of active military personnel and veterans face a number of challenges in their higher education journeys that colleges and universities can take steps towards ameliorating.

http://www.evolllution.com/community_programs/overcoming-the-critical-need-for-better-support-of-military-spouses-in-higher-education/

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Accepting Credits for MOOCs: Good for Students, Good for Society

By granting transfer credits for the completion of a massive open online course, Colorado State University Global Campus has taken a massive step forward in the process of legitimizing MOOCs in mainstream higher education circles.

Accepting Credits for MOOCs

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What do Research Universities Uniquely Bring to Online Education?

Teaching and learning may not be the focus of research universities’ missions, the way it is at other institutions, but there are still a number of ways they can use online and virtual learning to meet their full range of needs.

Find out what research universities uniquely bring to online education

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Higher Education Marketing in the Age of Hypertargeting

Hypertargeting through social media allows higher education institutions to reach individuals most likely to purchase their product for a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing methods. Discover more about higher education marketing in the age of hypertargeting 

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AUDIO | Exploring the Uses of Digital Badges

Digital badges have the potential to significantly change the way students are recognized for their ongoing education and can also impact how higher education institutions evaluate their programs.

Read more about digital badges in higher education 

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The Power and Possibility of Mobile Learning

As technology expands and more devices become ‘smart’, it is becoming increasingly possible for the living room to become a classroom at least as functional as a traditional lecture hall.

Learn more: http://www.evolllution.com/media_resources/the-power-and-possibility-of-mobile-learning/

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AUDIO | Strengthening the College through Relationships with Local High Schools

By delivering workforce development programming directly in the high school, Vernon College’s Continuing Education Unit is giving local high school students the chance to earn college-level credits, workforce certifications and a pathway to enroll in their college.

Read More: http://www.evolllution.com/community_programs/audio-strengthening-the-college-through-relationships-with-local-high-schools/

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Scholarship Support Has Big Impact on Adult Students

The gift from the Osher Foundation to Northwestern University’s School of Continuing Studies makes it possible for a number of adults to afford enrolling in higher education when that otherwise would have been unrealistic.

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