Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2024

That’s according to a new report by the Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. " The Future of Good Jobs: Projections through 2031 " reminds readers that higher education has a critical role to play in the future earnings of their students and the stability of the American economy.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 6, 2023

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/Nurun In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, higher education institutions (HEI) increasingly recognise the importance of preparing students to thrive in a technology-driven world. Digitally capable student: What does it mean in a HE Context?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“It didn’t matter if you sat in IT or our academic technology group or in one of the schools or foreign facilities office where you rarely interacted with the academics—the shared goal was so clear to everybody,” said Matthew Rascoff, Stanford’s vice provost for digital education.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

In spring 2021, inspired by feedback from students, I redesigned my two undergraduate education courses as blended learning courses. As we look to the future of higher education, blended learning might be the model students need as they navigate an ever-changing and ever-challenging world. 2019; Vallée et al.,

Higher Education 132

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. This is different from generic applications where chatbots may only handle customer service inquiries.

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University Business

OCTOBER 28, 2022

One of the greatest challenges higher education has ever had to face was the pandemic. Colleges didn’t choose but were forced to overcome barriers to instruction through innovative educational technology solutions with little to no turnaround as students returned home for remote learning. to nearly $78 billion in 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The University of Washington (UW) and Google have announced a $400,000 gift from the tech giant that will go towards efforts to diversify the field of K-12 computer science education. west regional lead, tech education outreach & partnerships at Google. “It Computer science is one of America’s most critical fields.

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Computer Science Education Equity Scholarship 119

MindMax

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There’s been a consistent buzz in the higher education news world around 2U, the online program management (OPM) company that contracts with nonprofit colleges and universities to build, deliver, and support online degree and non-degree programs. You may know that I worked in education before I started MindMax. The Early Days of OPMs.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) educated over two million Hispanic students during the 2021-22 school year, but continued to demonstrate extensive facility needs, according to a new U.S. They also had technology needs, such as, to improve student internet access, cybersecurity, and hybrid learning efforts.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2023

International Day of Education 2023 is being marked across the globe, with the driving theme behind this year’s iteration bringing the education of Afghan women and girls into focus, UNESCO has said. No country in the world should bar women and girls from receiving an education. The war against women must stop,” she added.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Here, representatives from China, Korea, and Japan shared what each country has done to boost their visibility in the international education sector. South Korea WooYoung Shin, representing the Global Education and Services and University Network for International Education, shared South Korea’s plans.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

As beacons of potential for individual growth and social mobility, community colleges often serve as a catalyst for underserved students to pursue a path in higher education. Department of Education report entitled “Partnerships Between Community Colleges and Prison,” states. “[The

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 30, 2023

Admittedly, we might see some of that same misreporting in 2021, but colleges and universities were starting to, and please excuse me for using this phrase, “get back to normal.” It seems apparent that many institutions reported these courses as “distance learning,” even though IPEDS instructed them not to do so.

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HEPI

JUNE 20, 2024

The carbon cost of higher education Universities and higher education (HE) institutions have an important role to play in meeting carbon reduction targets. Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency demonstrates that 133 UK universities accounted for 1.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions between 2021 and 2022.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Proper group structure, interaction, participation and accountability can arrest this issue (Sharan & Sharan, 2021). Technology-enhanced learning (pp. Provide necessary resources. Dillenbourg, P.,

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Image: After booming returns from a red-hot market last year, endowments across higher education have taken a hit this year, with declines seen across the sector. Higher education endowments had a median return of 30.1 percent in fiscal year 2021. Higher education endowments had a median return of 30.1

Higher Education 98

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.

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Technology Adult Education Retention Faculty 103

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). trillion in 2021 comes with 4.7% increase in undergrad engineering enrollment rates from 2010 (9.1%) to 2021 (15.8%).

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The State Authorization Network (SAN) is pleased to release a very thorough examination of state authorization of distance education through the lens of a colleague who witnessed many steps in the development of consumer protections for students participating in interstate distance education.

Education 111

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. This is different from generic applications where chatbots may only handle customer service inquiries.

Education 105

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Firstly, education is a fundamental human right that should be accessible to all, regardless of gender. Secondly, education is a key driver of economic growth and development, and women’s equal access to education is essential for achieving sustainable development goals. But we’re not there yet.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

MindMax recently hosted an interactive event with higher education leaders to discuss higher education trends regarding summer sessions : past, present, and future. Davis Lowell kicked off the conversation by focusing on a word that he joked higher education leaders would be happy never to hear again: pivot. I’ve seen it.

Higher Education 130

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2022

After all, “Zoom fatigue” has real effects on cognitive processing (Waldbieser, 2021). Furthermore, asynchronous videos allow for “improved collaboration and sense of ‘trust’ of group members” (West, 2021, p. 2021) provide a comprehensive guide and workflow for creating asynchronous videos for your class. Castillo et al.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

billion on research and development in math, science, engineering and other major fields during FY 2021, an increase of $3.4 Campus leaders also reported increases in state and local contributions though nonprofit spending dropped, according to the latest Higher Education Research and Development Survey. University of Maryland: $1.1

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Proper group structure, interaction, participation and accountability can arrest this issue (Sharan & Sharan, 2021). Technology-enhanced learning (pp. Provide necessary resources. Dillenbourg, P.,

Education 87

Education Students Achievement Arts And Sciences 87

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.

Technology 92

Technology Adult Education Retention Faculty 92

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

In spring 2021, inspired by feedback from students, I redesigned my two undergraduate education courses as blended learning courses. As we look to the future of higher education, blended learning might be the model students need as they navigate an ever-changing and ever-challenging world. 2019; Vallée et al.,

Higher Education 95

Higher Education Education Learning Experience Model 95

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? What if we were to look back at higher education in 2022 a decade or so in the future? State spending on higher education bounced back; direct expenditures increased by an 8.3

Higher Education 119

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Higher education is re-envisioning its offerings from the ground up to acclimate itself to the emerging demands of a digital workforce. Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With Thanksgiving break under wraps, school districts and higher education institutions have their final holiday to look forward to as 2022 comes to a close: Christmas break. The scope of cybersecurity threats expands far beyond just the education sector, according to the report.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Last year, Dutch minister for Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, told The PIE in an exclusive interview that the country was searching for an “optimal” number of international students, while he praised the role of student and researcher international exchanges. times as many as the 2005/06 figure.

Higher Education 98

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

“What that quote means is, as an institution, if we don’t start to think about the future—if we’re not thinking about trends in higher education and in business, if we’re not looking at what our competitors are doing—we’ll fall far behind,” said Alexander. James Runcie, CEO and co-founder of the Partnership for Education Advancement.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Below are four key lessons from the experience, and three broad questions to consider as we all contemplate what VR and the ‘metaverse’ might mean for higher education: 1. How and when will these technologies achieve scale in society and higher ed? Click on the image to open larger in a new window.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Recent changes in the laws in many states have moved to a bifurcated system in which students must have 120 credit hours of college education to sit for the CPA exam and 150 credit hours (225 for quarter schools) to be licensed as a CPA. Expanding the Knowledge Base for CPAs. The AICPA was an early supporter of the 150-hour requirement.

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