Postgraduate education is poised for rapid development and if Deans and administrators will embra... more Postgraduate education is poised for rapid development and if Deans and administrators will embrace lessons from industry it can actually be a smooth transition. The cost of doing nothing is greater than it has ever been before. Hit and miss development has left Postgraduate Schools (PGS) with disjointed student analytics and student experience is not what it should be. The future of PGS cannot be envisioned exactly, but we know it involves human to human interaction, technology, and scale. The conceptual map provided by Digital Intelligence, mixed with agile process will allow a clear path to develop PGS innovation quickly. The Premise of this paper is that it is time to move back into the strengths educators have always relied on and to design systems using technology to help higher education thrive, thereby upskilling large segments of the population in knowledge and social capital. When postgraduate education improves for the at-risk student, the systems are more successful for everyone. The purpose of this report is to help Deans and administrators caught in the midst of change, develop rapidly by laying out a vision and the steps involved in its implementation. Postgraduate education may be seemingly caught by unmovable situations, but does not have to be. It is time for thoughtful leadership to agilely implement effective and efficient student experiences based on digital intelligence. Improvement starts with enhancing the student experience to be more clear, seamless, supportive-and-empowering while gathering rich information on the needs of students, faculty, and administrators. To serve this vision, an agile and integrated system of digital intelligence is needed. One that builds a data profile: a) from recruiting through enrollment, retention, course work, and professional development; b) from entrance through graduation and on to employment and c) one that keeps in touch with alumni.
Even with today’s sophisticated technologies, we usually are still exporting the classroom as if ... more Even with today’s sophisticated technologies, we usually are still exporting the classroom as if that is the ideal learning environment. Learning science has advanced a great deal in the past several centuries since the lecture became the most common form of ‘teaching’ at colleges and universities. There is a lot we know about how people learn, yet very few faculty members are learning experts. There is good evidence that adaptive or personalized learning environments help more students be successful, but these are hard to implement in traditional settings. The use of a competency-based education model can facilitate the use of these new learning environments to benefit students.
Page 1. 1686 The Professional Learning Model (PLM) David E. Leasure Colorado Technical Universit... more Page 1. 1686 The Professional Learning Model (PLM) David E. Leasure Colorado Technical University, USA Amy Peterson Career Education Corporation, USA Richard Kettner-Polley Colorado Technical University, USA ...
As an alternative to constraint logic programming (CLP), LOGISTICA-CFP implements constraint func... more As an alternative to constraint logic programming (CLP), LOGISTICA-CFP implements constraint functional programming (CFP) by borrowing from the approach of SCREAMER and building on the nondeterministic functional programming language LOGISTICA. Although currently in the experimental stages, LOGISTICA-CFP demonstrates that a functional approach can be used to implement constraint programming in a manner that can be ex- pected to have the same advantages over CLP as SCREAMER while avoiding the imperative interface to constraint reasoning, yet allowing easy extension of the reasoning mechanism and integration with other symbolic reasoning applications.
This article presents a formal theory of concurrent actions that handles the qualification. ramif... more This article presents a formal theory of concurrent actions that handles the qualification. ramification, and frame problems. The theory is capable of temporal explanation, i.e.. reasoning forward and backward. The approach uses the modal logic Z to extend the work of Lifschitz and Rabinov on miracle-based temporal reasoning. The advantages of miracles for describing unknown actions are augmented with the ability to handle concurrent actions that can provide for the most economical explanation of state changes. For temporal explanation problems restricted to finite domains, it has a worst-case exponential decision procedure. The theory is as general as first-order logic in what it can express as preconditions and consequences of actions.
Handbook of Research on Student-Centered Strategies in Online Adult Learning Environments
The challenges of educating a shifting demographic for a shifting job market, with a solution tha... more The challenges of educating a shifting demographic for a shifting job market, with a solution that enhances educational equity and effectively develops competence, has been demonstrated by WGU's implementation of competency-based education (CBE).…
Postgraduate education is poised for rapid development and if Deans and administrators will embra... more Postgraduate education is poised for rapid development and if Deans and administrators will embrace lessons from industry it can actually be a smooth transition. The cost of doing nothing is greater than it has ever been before. Hit and miss development has left Postgraduate Schools (PGS) with disjointed student analytics and student experience is not what it should be. The future of PGS cannot be envisioned exactly, but we know it involves human to human interaction, technology, and scale. The conceptual map provided by Digital Intelligence, mixed with agile process will allow a clear path to develop PGS innovation quickly. The Premise of this paper is that it is time to move back into the strengths educators have always relied on and to design systems using technology to help higher education thrive, thereby upskilling large segments of the population in knowledge and social capital. When postgraduate education improves for the at-risk student, the systems are more successful for everyone. The purpose of this report is to help Deans and administrators caught in the midst of change, develop rapidly by laying out a vision and the steps involved in its implementation. Postgraduate education may be seemingly caught by unmovable situations, but does not have to be. It is time for thoughtful leadership to agilely implement effective and efficient student experiences based on digital intelligence. Improvement starts with enhancing the student experience to be more clear, seamless, supportive-and-empowering while gathering rich information on the needs of students, faculty, and administrators. To serve this vision, an agile and integrated system of digital intelligence is needed. One that builds a data profile: a) from recruiting through enrollment, retention, course work, and professional development; b) from entrance through graduation and on to employment and c) one that keeps in touch with alumni.
Even with today’s sophisticated technologies, we usually are still exporting the classroom as if ... more Even with today’s sophisticated technologies, we usually are still exporting the classroom as if that is the ideal learning environment. Learning science has advanced a great deal in the past several centuries since the lecture became the most common form of ‘teaching’ at colleges and universities. There is a lot we know about how people learn, yet very few faculty members are learning experts. There is good evidence that adaptive or personalized learning environments help more students be successful, but these are hard to implement in traditional settings. The use of a competency-based education model can facilitate the use of these new learning environments to benefit students.
Page 1. 1686 The Professional Learning Model (PLM) David E. Leasure Colorado Technical Universit... more Page 1. 1686 The Professional Learning Model (PLM) David E. Leasure Colorado Technical University, USA Amy Peterson Career Education Corporation, USA Richard Kettner-Polley Colorado Technical University, USA ...
As an alternative to constraint logic programming (CLP), LOGISTICA-CFP implements constraint func... more As an alternative to constraint logic programming (CLP), LOGISTICA-CFP implements constraint functional programming (CFP) by borrowing from the approach of SCREAMER and building on the nondeterministic functional programming language LOGISTICA. Although currently in the experimental stages, LOGISTICA-CFP demonstrates that a functional approach can be used to implement constraint programming in a manner that can be ex- pected to have the same advantages over CLP as SCREAMER while avoiding the imperative interface to constraint reasoning, yet allowing easy extension of the reasoning mechanism and integration with other symbolic reasoning applications.
This article presents a formal theory of concurrent actions that handles the qualification. ramif... more This article presents a formal theory of concurrent actions that handles the qualification. ramification, and frame problems. The theory is capable of temporal explanation, i.e.. reasoning forward and backward. The approach uses the modal logic Z to extend the work of Lifschitz and Rabinov on miracle-based temporal reasoning. The advantages of miracles for describing unknown actions are augmented with the ability to handle concurrent actions that can provide for the most economical explanation of state changes. For temporal explanation problems restricted to finite domains, it has a worst-case exponential decision procedure. The theory is as general as first-order logic in what it can express as preconditions and consequences of actions.
Handbook of Research on Student-Centered Strategies in Online Adult Learning Environments
The challenges of educating a shifting demographic for a shifting job market, with a solution tha... more The challenges of educating a shifting demographic for a shifting job market, with a solution that enhances educational equity and effectively develops competence, has been demonstrated by WGU's implementation of competency-based education (CBE).…
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