Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education
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What’s on the Minds of CAUCE Members? CAUCE Institutional Members’ Survey 2012
No full textThis paper presents findings based on CAUCE’s 2012 institutional members’ survey. Findings are considered in relation to an earlier iteration of the same survey in 2009. Three important areas for the reader’s consideration emerged. The first is increasing interest by CAUCE members in distance education and technology-supported models and practices. A second key message ties to the value that CAUCE members place on networking with their colleagues. Finally, continuing education units across Canada continue to be valued for their revenue-generating capacity during fiscally challenging times although, at other times, there can be ambivalence towards continuing education
Reinventing Universities: Continuing Education and the Challenge of the 21st Century
No full textCanadian universities are in the midst of a lengthy period of financial uncertainty and public pressures to change, circumstances that add to the pressures on continuing education units and create opportunities for innovative change. The emergence of MOOCs, demands for research relevance, and concerns about the employability of graduates have forced campuses to consider new approaches, implement alternative financial models, find additional revenue, and search for efficiencies.In this environment, continuing education professionals have significant opportunities to provide to the campus-wide university, even after years of being marginalized on many campuses. Continuing education units work with external audiences and clients, have experimented with new revenue sources, have explored and evaluated distance delivery/ technology-based methods, and have become accustomed to living with constant change.While it will be difficult for continuing education units to attract campus-wide attention, particularly from traditional academic disciplines, there is a strong likelihood that universities as a whole will need the insights, strategies, approaches, pedagogy, and business models that have evolved in the outreach divisions in recent decades
Team-based Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Group Work to Generate Critical Thinking and Engagement
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Controlling Knowledge: Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World
No full textStudent Engagement and Study Abroad
No full textIn this study the authors assessed student engagement during a short-term study-abroad program using the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Data were collected from a group of Canadian undergraduates spending six weeks in Mexico. Their program included a 10-day bus tour, three half-credit courses, and accommodations with local families. The authors administered the NSSE twice: once at the conclusion of the students’ current school year and six weeks later at the end of their study-abroad program. A comparison of responses from the two administrations of the NSSE indicates an advantage, though modest, for the study-abroad setting. Study abroad’s stature in higher education as a high-impact learning activity received moderate support from the data. The authors encourage administrators and researchers to use student engagement and the NSSE to refine study-abroad programs