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CHEPP Releases Fact Sheet on Learner-Centered Higher Education

CHEPP’s latest resource highlights the barriers faced by today’s learners and the importance of designing education models that meet their unique needs to help them their reach their goals.
Siobhan Lopez
New from CHEPP, the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice.

The Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice (CHEPP) at SNHU has released a new fact sheet, Increasing Success Through Learner-Centered Design. The resource emphasizes the need for learner-centered design by highlighting the changing profile of today’s learners, many of whom are older, financially independent, working while enrolled, or balancing family responsibilities. The fact sheet also outlines the barriers students face, including rising costs, rigid course schedules, and a fragmented credit transfer system.

Despite those realities for today’s learners, higher education often continues to rely on a traditional model designed for full-time, on-campus students. To address this issue, CHEPP calls for institutions and policymakers to advance solutions focused on affordability, flexible formats, streamlined pathways, and strong supports that help learners succeed in completing their credentials or degrees.

CHEPP developed a learner-centered design framework to assist policymakers and practitioners in their efforts to center learners in higher education.

A learner-centered design framework developed by CHEPP to assist policymakers and practitioners in their efforts to center learners in higher education.

By presenting the lived experiences of today’s learners, CHEPP often develops fact sheets, research and reports to help decision-makers understand the systemic changes needed to make higher education more equitable and accessible for today’s learners.

Read the latest fact sheet and find more resources on the CHEPP website.

Siobhan Lopez is a former journalist, who is now the director of media relations at Southern New Hampshire University.

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