Mashable's list of 13 alternative to Powerpoint
http://mashable.com/2008/02/16/forget-powerpoint-online-presentations/

A Vision of Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/v/dGCJ46vyR9o

"...Moreover, the report finds, colleges and universities “have yet to catch up with the burgeoning demand for new learning options, especially programs for career transitions."

Center for Lifelong Learning
http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/CLLL/index.htm

Statistical data on higher education.


Higher Ed Info.org
http://www.higheredinfo.org/analyses/

Measuring Up
http://measuringup.highereducation.org/

"United States is losing ground to other industrialized nations. Over several decades, we’ve slipped from first to seventh among the nations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in the percentage of adults aged 25 to 34 with bachelor’s degrees and to ninth in the number of adults in that age range with at least a high school education."

http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=18300&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm

"Degree completion is most affected by SES, high school-based academic resources, degree aspirations, enrollment patterns, taking college courses in math and sciences, financial aid, and having children while attending college."

Pathways to a Four-Year Degree: Determinants of Degree Completion among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Students http://35.8.168.242/paperdepot/2003cabrera.pdf

Only 21% of American adults over the age of 25 have a bachelor's degree or better.

Swail, W.S. (2002, July/August). Higher education and the new demographics: Questions for policy. Change, 15-23.http://lists.eou.edu/archive/ctl-group/d20034/0019.html