Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship

The law of the retarding lead is used by political scientists, economists, and anthropologists to describe the phenomenon by which the best-adapted and most successful societies have the greatest difficulty in changing and retaining their lead in a period of transition. Conversely, societies

Just as it's hard imagine what life was like before the Internet, after 2012's breakout year for Coursera, Edx, and Udacity among others, it's hard to speak about higher education without mention of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Despite conflicting discourse from both critics and supporters

Higher education providers in the United States can expect strong demand from international students for the next ten years. Why? Because that is the unstated conclusion in three separate market assessments from its main competitors.

U.S. higher education institutions are increasingly using the language of “global citizenship” to describe the skills and habits they seek to cultivate in their students.

Trends & Insights, March 13 Report. An increasingly competitive environment of international student recruitment is compelling many institutions to optimize quantity, quality, diversity, time, and budget.

Although diversity and internationalization initiatives in higher education have commonly shared aims of enhancing cultural awareness and understanding, the promoters of each effort are often not viewed as allies. In this newest piece on trends and insights in international education, Gailda Davis

Trends and Insights report from November 2012