Category: Higher Education
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27 Top University Websites Using WordPress
More and more websites are running on WordPress – in fact, 43.4% of the internet is powered by WP! WordPress is known as a platform that allows web developers to build customizable, creative websites that are easy to update and manage – the perfect recipe for university and college administrators. But many administrators have concerns…
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9 Alumni Engagement Best Practices for Higher Education
With the recent announcement of The Pagely Scholarship, we’ve been deep in a higher ed mindset and got to thinking about ways to engage alumni, in addition to current and incoming students. We spend some of the best years of our young adult lives at college. Studying. Being independent for the first time. Pulling all-nighters…
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How Disruptive Innovation and Online Education is Remaking Higher Education
Thousands of universities around the world use WordPress, including many prestigious American universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. Why? Because WordPress is cost-effective, flexible, scalable. The open-source WordPress community continues to innovate in areas that can remake how higher education institutes are growing in online education. WordPress is currently used in myriad different ways…
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The Best Learning Management Systems in Higher Education
Like many industries and institutions before it, higher education has seen an explosion in technical innovations and solutions in recent years. From enrollment systems to learning content, fundraising platforms, and more, the sheer number of tools available today boggles the mind. At the center of it all however, one type of solution has dominated the…
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Higher Ed Technology Solutions to Implement Before Next Semester
With each successive matriculating class, colleges and universities find themselves serving a population with greater exposure to and connection with technology. This increased technological curve delivers students with a greater expectation of what technology means in their daily lives, both personally, and educationally which means schools need to stay ahead of technology solutions before the…
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Online & Distance Learning in Higher Education – Tips for Success & Best Practices
Higher education online learning and distance learning have been on the rise for some time. According to the Digital Learning Compass: Distance Education Enrollment Report 2017, distance learning continued its annual growth trend. In the fall of 2015 more than 6 million students took at least one distance course, a 3.9% increase from the previous…
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Tips for Higher Education Marketing to Millennials
Gone are the days when higher education marketing could rely on glossy brochures and academic reputation to attract new students. Millennials have learned from college dropouts like Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg that a degree isn’t your only path towards success or landing a well-paid job in modern industries where relevant skills and experience trump…