Best Colleges Will Have The Best Completion Rates: National Commission Letter Huffington Post The 32-page letter said colleges need to reform campus culture, cost-effectiveness and quality and their use of data ......."
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Call it the year of the mega-class. Why all the hype? Via Susan Bainbridge 
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Shortest possible history of MOOCs, but still useful for the uniitiated. However, as Susan Bainbridge already noted, there's one glaring omission, the Connectivist MOOCs by Siemens, Downes, Cormier are not mentioned at all. I know all the brouha is about the xMOOCs, but out of courtesy to the namegivers and originators, they should have been included in this overview; and also to avoid any possible confusion, a lot of the criticisms that apply to xMOOCs simply do not apply to cMOOCs, on the contrary rather. (@pbsloep) Delete the scoop?
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"...Colleges need to focus on sending their students away with degrees instead of spending so much time recruiting and boosting enrollment numbers, argues an open letter released this week from the National Commission on Higher Education Attainment.
The 32-page letter said colleges need to reform campus culture, cost-effectiveness and quality and their use of data so more of their students receive diplomas and fewer at-risk students walk away with debt instead of opportunity.
"We spend a great deal of time thumping the drum of 'Come to our place,'" E. Gordon Gee, chair of the commission and president of The Ohio State University, told The Huffington Post. Soon, he said, "The completion dean is going to be as important as the admissions dean, and even more so."
The open letter was released just as a new report concluded that 46 percent of America's college students don't graduate college within six years, calling the phenomenon “a dropout crisis” in American colleges and universities.
According to the commission's letter, colleges should better recognize nontraditional students like adult learners and students who are the first in their families to attend universities.
"Who we have in college is different," Gayle Miller, president of LaGuardia Community College, told HuffPost, "and we have to really rethink our systems and structures."