Market for Learning

Improving transparency is critical to the future of higher education. This book lays the foundations for understanding this young field and charts substantial opportunities for innovation and transformation. Current global crises imperil exactly the kinds of progress higher education has helped to create. Higher education must contribute now like never before. But the sector must put its own house in order, and do a better job conveying its value and transformative potential. The book offers a transparency roadmap: it reveals the pressures reshaping higher education, clarifies the value and nature of transparency, examines emerging reporting platforms, reviews improvement opportunities for students, faculty, institutions and systems, and forecasts how to engineer important next steps. The text synthesises diverse theoretical and empirical perspectives, incorporating analysis of quality and productivity, academic work and leadership, indicators and metrics, commercial trends and institutional models, as well as student learning and outcomes. It creates new futures for higher education by integrating and opening up issues that have been largely confined to insiders.