This Graduation Season More Students Than Ever Are Choosing to Learn Online July 11, 2018 Posted in: Featured- Among the 3000 students awarded National University degrees in California over the past couple of months, was Juan Flores, a U.S. Marine who was stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, East Africa, and Japan. Flores had not been able to make it to San Diego a few years ago to receive his undergraduate degree in Homeland Security… Continue Reading
Progress Report: Creating the Precision Education Platform for Personalized Learning
A significant milestone in our research and development of Precision Education at National University was reached this fall when we launched a digital learning platform we are calling NUNav. The learning navigator platform is being [...]
A New Kind of Ranking: Evaluating How Universities Best Serve Adult Learners
The much-anticipated listings of the nation’s best colleges put out by U.S. News & World Report and other similar national rankings look at metrics that are usually more pertinent to the “traditional” college student. These [...]
Predicting the Path of Wildfires and Predicting Student Learning Have One Thing in Common: Data Science
Dr. Ilkay Altintas, Chief Data Science Officer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, was the invited speaker as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series, hosted by the Precision [...]
Nudging Students Toward College Success
Economists and social and cognitive psychologists who study how people make choices have known for many years that people do not always have the time, inclination or mental wherewithal to act rationally. But they’ve also [...]
Precision Education: Bringing a Scientific Perspective to Student Learning and Success
Guest blog post by Dr. Huda Makhluf, Interim Director of the Precision Institute at National University I think of the act of teaching as scientific research, and each assignment as a hypothesis. When I teach [...]
