Campus Technology: Higher Ed Slow to Shift to Digital Learning Experiences
Moving toward digital learning is an evolutionary process that helps meet the needs of today's non-traditional learners for flexibility and engaging anywhere, anytime learning. Public universities are under significant pressure - difficult funding, instructor support,...
Fading College Affordability
As if the Great Recession and Protracted Recovery (our term) weren't tough enough, Inside Higher Ed cites a report from UPennGSE and Vanderbilt showing that college has become less affordable in 45 of 50 U.S. states since that time. That's why we're doing our part at...
Q&A With Prof. Pabon, OpenStax’er of the Month for April 2016 and Junction User
Five questions with Prof. Andrea Pabon of Luzerne County Community College about why she chose to use Junction with OpenStax with her students this year. Q: How did you first come across Junction? AP: I was looking for an alternative to support the learning process...
Junction Education’s Journey to Mars (x4)
NASA projects that with current technology a manned round-trip to Mars would take approximately 21 months. Fortunately, that includes the 3-4 months one would need to spend on the red planet before Mars and Earth would be aligned for a trip back home. I'm not quite...
Spotlight: Junction Insight
We hear it over and over: “I teach lots of courses, sections and students - among all the other things I have to do. Don’t show me three complex graphs and five bewildering charts and expect that I’ll decipher what’s going on. I need to know what I can be doing right...
5 Things College Students Wish Their Professors Would Do
With new graduates carrying an average of $35,000 in student loans, there is a renewed urgency to have higher education move beyond the current passive instructional model, to one that combines theory with experiential training
Behind the Scenes on Textbook Pricing, Accessibility and Student Success
The simple argument is that first-year students spend an average of $1,092 on course materials whereas upperclassmen are spending over $400/year less. As introductory / first-year classes are the most widely taken, shouldn't they, in fact, be less expensive than...
JUNCTION EDUCATION EXPANDS $25,000 AFFORDABLE LEARNING GRANT PROGRAM
The selected institutions will each receive a grant of $5,000 to implement and study the effectiveness of Junction Courseware and the Junction Education Course Platform. Participants will be able to choose from one of Junction’s ready-to-go courses, or select one of your existing courses that will be re-worked to your standards, and optimized for the best experience.
JUNCTION EDUCATION ANNOUNCES EXPANSION TO COURSE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAM ENABLEMENT
New York area start-up moving beyond courseware to offer institutions a new alternative to expensive enablers Short Hills, NJ: Junction Education, a courseware start-up founded by former McGraw-Hill senior executives, Vineet Madan and Derek Wessler, announced today...
Welcome Amazon, to open resources in education!
In case you missed it, earlier this week Amazon (the world's largest bookseller) announced Amazon Inspire, a K-12 focused repository for open educational resources with an undefined business model. It's great to see Amazon bringing their resources and expertise in...