{"id":758,"date":"2006-12-13T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T17:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/13\/study-on-what-us-college-students-want-from-their-education\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T17:35:36","slug":"study-on-what-us-college-students-want-from-their-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/13\/study-on-what-us-college-students-want-from-their-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Study on &#8216;What [US] College Students want from their Education&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Eduventures Report - WHAT COLLEGE STUDENTS WANT FROM THEIR EDUCATION\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eduventures.com\/about\/press_room\/12_12_06.cfm?pubnav=about\">http:\/\/www.eduventures.com\/about\/press_room\/<br \/>\n12_12_06.cfm?pubnav=about<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via Jim Farmer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immagic.com\/uPortalDocs\/framework\/RSS\/1.0\/eLibraryNewAcquisitions.xml\">eLibrary feed<\/a>, an ongoing treasure trove of documents on patents and elearning (amongst other topics), comes news of this report by Eduventures, a Boston-based consulting firm. You have to pay for the full report, but even the short precis has some interesting nuggets from a student perspective. According to this summary, the study of 6,200 enrolling freshman in the US found &#8216;Professional Preparation,&#8217; &#8216;Academic Strength&#8217; and &#8216;Affordability&#8217; (in that order) as the top 3 things incoming students are looking for. And around the notion of &#8216;Academic Strength,&#8217; apparently<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>students value &#8220;close interaction with faculty&#8221; and &#8220;experiential learning&#8221; more than &#8220;honors programs&#8221; and the development of smaller &#8220;learning communities.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.eduventures.com\/about\/press_room\/ 12_12_06.cfm?pubnav=about Via Jim Farmer&#8217;s eLibrary feed, an ongoing treasure trove of documents on patents and elearning (amongst other topics), comes news of this report by Eduventures, a Boston-based consulting firm. You have to pay for the full report, but even the short precis has some interesting nuggets from a student perspective. According to this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/13\/study-on-what-us-college-students-want-from-their-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Study on &#8216;What [US] College Students want from their Education&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}