The results of the brand new Ruffalo Noel-Levitz report on the E-expectations of college bound seniors and juniors (n=3,052) will be officially released next Wednesday in Boston. But, I managed this year again to get a preview of these results – before anybody else – courtesy of Stephanie Geyer from RNL who will present the […]
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SEO for #highered : The 2013 State of Education-Related Google Searches
I’m almost done taking the first session of the 4-week online course on search engine optimization for higher education, launched earlier this month by Higher Ed Experts and taught by Joshua Dodson. I always take the first session of our new courses as a student to make sure the student experience is up to our […]
2013 E-Expectations NL Report: Top 7 most interesting findings for #highered
The brand new Noel-Levitz report on the E-expectations of college bound seniors and juniors has been released this morning. I had the opportunity to review it several times as Stephanie Geyer from Noel-Levitz emailed me a copy of the final report a couple of weeks ago after I promised (crossed my heart and everything) to […]
1-1-1 Book Review: The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz
Do you feel sometimes overwhelmed by all the objectives, the data, the platforms, the options and even the mere possibilities in your daily work? I have to admit: I do. And, chances are you do too according to “The enemy of clarity,” a post Andrew Careaga wrote earlier this week. We live in a world […]
The 2013 State of Mobile & Responsive Web in #highered [FULL REPORT]
How higher ed is doing with the mobile & responsive web? This is the question that the 3rd edition of the State of the Mobile and Responsive Web in Higher Ed survey report answers in a 12-page document – including results and charts. This open and independent research work is supported by Higher Ed Experts […]
Take the 2013 State of the Mobile & Responsive Web SURVEY in #highered to get the report!
So much has changed over the past 12 months in higher education. Last January, only a few higher ed professionals had started to see responsive web design as an option to serve mobile users. Now, RWD is on everybody’s mind in the higher ed web development community. What is the current state of the mobile […]
2 more reasons why the responsive web design approach makes sense for #highered [STUDY]
If you are somehow a regular reader of this blog (collegewebeditor.com in case you’re reading this in your RSS Reader or on another aggregator ;0), you know that I’ve become a strong proponent of the responsive web design approach for higher education over the past year. I know, I know: if I’m such a strong […]
#highered Mobile Solutions: Hitting or Missing the Admissions Target?
That’s a question I’ve been working on for a few weeks, ever since the latest Noel-Levitz report (PDF) on the mobile behaviors and expectations of prospective students finally provided us with some hard data on the most valuable pieces of content for this target audience. In a follow-up post arguing for an Admission-First approach for […]
UPDATED: The 2012 State of the Mobile Web in #highered Survey Report
UPDATE (9:30AM – Feb 21): An important typo in the % of existing mobile solutions was fixed in the report. A few weeks ago I conducted the second survey about the State of Mobile Web in Higher Ed to provide the community with some insights on the mobile web in our industry. The first survey […]
Top 11 #highered websites ranked by EDU Checkup scores
Website redesigns are a fact of life in higher education. And, that’s why our yearly Web Redesign Boot Camp webinar series (Feb 7-9, 2012) is always very well-attended as it provides practical tips and useful advice for web redesign projects in higher education as well as a good overview of the latest trends in our […]
75% of College Students won’t scan your #highered QR codes
According to the study conducted by Archrival on 24 US campuses (n=500 with a +/-4.25% margin of error), three quarters of current students won’t probably bother scanning your QR codes (thanks to 2code for the tip). While the majority knows what QR codes are, only 21% managed to scan the one used for this research. […]
Why #highered is NOT there yet with social media marketing
Last week Kyle James reminded us that the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachussets Dartmouth had just published the results of its latest study on social media use in higher ed. With 456 interviews performed from November 2010 to May 2011 among a representative sample of 4-year institutions in the US, the […]
Want to find out about the State of Online Analytics in #highered? Complete the survey by May 12, 2011
For the past 12 months I’ve been researching, writing, presenting and advocating the role online analytics can/should play in higher education marketing. Whether on this blog, at the Higher Ed Analytics website or with the monthly benchmarking higher ed analytics survey, I’ve spent countless hours doing what I could to push the online analytics agenda […]
Top 4 findings on the State of Social Media in #highered
Everybody wants to know how social media is doing in higher education lately (unless it is how higher ed is doing social media ;-) Slover Linett Strategies Inc., mStoner and CASE have just released the high-level results of their Second Comprehensive Study of Social Media Use by Schools, Colleges and Universities (you can find more […]
The State of Mobile Web in #highered Survey Report
In February 2011 I ran my first survey about the State of Mobile Web in Higher Ed to provide the community with some insights on the new challenge that the mobile web has become. The survey was a real success as a total of 230 professionals working mainly in the marketing, communication and web offices […]
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