Thought leadership, institutional insights, and updates from R&S Educational Consultants.
Introduction In early May 2026, the education technology world was rocked by one of the most significant cybersecurity incidents to ever strike an academic learning platform. Instructure, the company behind Canvas Learning Management System (LMS),…
Read More →Introduction For any college or university, regional accreditation is far more than a bureaucratic checkbox. It is a formal, public declaration that an institution meets rigorous standards of academic quality, institutional integrity, and continuous improvement.…
Read More →Introduction For decades, the default approach to course development in higher education followed a familiar and deeply ingrained pattern: a faculty member identifies a list of topics to cover, organizes those topics into a weekly…
Read More →Introduction General education sits at the very heart of the undergraduate experience. It is the intellectual foundation that higher education institutions promise will equip all graduates with the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind they…
Read More →Introduction Imagine a world where how long a student sits in a chair determines what they know. Where knowledge is sliced into rigid, disconnected boxes labeled "mathematics," "history," and "science," and where rows of students…
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