Coursera blog

JANUARY 31, 2025

Building on this momentum, nine new universities joined Coursera in 2024, including Clemson University, IMD Business School, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, and Sad Business School – University of Oxford. Notably, 10% of those courses focused on GenAI , the fastest-growing skill for both 2024 and 2025.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. They strengthen their abilities to remember new information, make insightful connections, and ask meaningful questionsboth in the moment and in their memories.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For two decades, the gradual decline of the liberal arts degree has been met with both resignation and celebration. As higher education faces growing pressure to invest in academic programs that provide direct pathways to a career, many resource-strapped colleges have responded by making significant cuts to their liberal arts offerings.

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Campus Sonar

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Perception is shaped by human feelings and opinions, and is dynamic in nature. The online conversation acts as an always-on focus group organizations use to understand perceptions, inform strategic decisions, and grow the capability and impact of teams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Dr. Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In November I helped with two major outreach initiatives, a conference and a multi-day medical humanities event series, neither of which would have had any hope of success if they had fallen on the shoulders of one individual as opposed to a team. There is one name at the top of the CV, the exam, the LibInsights report, this blog post.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It is this technology-enabled ease and efficiency that I thought could benefit my teacher candidates (TCs) in my fine arts for elementary education course during their busy end-of-semester season. in response to user prompts, there is no ignoring the flurry of both concerns and hopes for its use in a variety of professional fields.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Our data set includes information on hiring at 391 Ph.D.-granting In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s The new data, described below and available publicly , largely complement the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates. granting universities.

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idfive agency

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While human emotions are fairly universal, they might not resonate the same across different cultures. With more than 7,100 languages spoken all over the world, each with a unique blend of culture and expression, it’s a wonder that any of us are able to communicate at all. Maybe it’s with a little hechicería. I’m lovin’ it!

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Higher Ed Data Stories

JULY 4, 2024

Last night, I looked at a chart that had been tweeted out by Marco Learning , a terrific source for information about The College Board's AP Program. Similarly, it's either "AP 2D Art & Design" or "AP 2-D Art and Design." Turns out, their data was correct. I put the word download in quotation marks on purpose.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

My long-term goal is to explore, confront and disrupt ableism (discrimination in favor of able-bodied people) in the context of nursing, applied health sciences and medical education,” said Jamal-Eddine, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), College of Nursing. “My

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

Paula Krebs, the executive director of the Modern Language Association of America, stated that “[s]cience, technology and business courses and majors are not enough for WVU to offer if it wants to produce fully informed and thinking citizens for West Virginia.” Most drastically, it eliminated the entire World Languages department.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. The reality is very different.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT can now produce polished, technically competent texts in seconds, challenging our traditional understanding of writing as a uniquely human process of creation, reflection, and learning. What gives us reason for hope comes down to how we define writing. an academic discipline), social worlds (e.g.,

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“This unique program combines King’s global leadership in digital humanities and psychology with the experiences of veteran and junior UX designers,” Mark Lester, chief partnerships officer at FourthRev , explained. The edtech specialist also secured $8 million in Series A funding at the beginning of last year.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

By combining state-of-the-art approaches to precisely treat each person’s unique disease with a broad focus on enhanced efficacy, affordability, and access, AI.Health will advance Emory’s mission of serving humanity both in Georgia and worldwide.” Bellamkonda, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine During her Bachelor of Science in Nursing studies, Sabrina Jamal-Eddine informed a clinical instructor about her back disability and lifting limitation as well as explaining that she could do everything but except lift a patient.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

Along with the ADT programs, Coastline offers a certificate of achievement in business and six associate degree programs in the arts and sciences: American studies, arts and humanities, general business, science and math, social and behavioral sciences, and sociology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. Throughout her life and career, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson has proven to be a leader, innovator, and motivator. Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty. But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Out of the panic, an emerging field of practical, practitioner-based research has begun to emerge. The call for calm, patient reflection has been noted (Naidu 2023, para 10).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In the college’s general education requirements of 6 courses students must choose from among 217 different courses (one course from 46 in natural sciences, one from 47 in social and behavioral sciences, one from 79 in art, humanities, and culture, etc.). It is a quality education essential to all students.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. The reality is very different.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

By field, arts and humanities students are likeliest to say they rely on deadlines (57 percent). Additionally, students in the arts and humanities (57 percent) seem to want more general flexibility than students in the sciences (41 percent) or the social sciences (48 percent).

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Video highlights are brief overviews of information that make it easy for audiences to glean critical takeaways. A video highlight for an event presents information about an event in a short overview that makes it easy for audiences to glean critical takeaways. But, what is a video highlight? These videos can be fun and engaging.

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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

This exciting approach to (re)discovery is at the forefront of a variety of (inter/multi/trans)disciplines ranging from bio-informatics and social statistics to the digital humanities. Examples of ICTs, “big data” and other emerging technologies leading to research breakthroughs in the natural and health sciences are well known.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

Take a closer look and investigate first-hand to offer leadership and guidance based on reality, not second-hand information, aspirational planning or hopeful thinking. This year, higher education leaders, researchers and others are already making progress to safeguard DEI initiatives designed to foster racial equity and progress.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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Liaison International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

” For example, Hannah highlighted the power of AI to inform better decision making through predictive analytics, using the example of forecasting a student’s likelihood to enroll. .” However, he also pointed out that the implementation of AI is not without ethical considerations. ” Later, Dr.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

“What is worth more,” asked one of the young militants, “art or life? Art or life? It is among the oldest examples of what Weiss calls an “encyclopedic” museum, aspiring to “collect art and archeological materials from the great epochs of human history across the vast geographies of the world.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Out of the panic, an emerging field of practical, practitioner-based research has begun to emerge. The call for calm, patient reflection has been noted (Naidu 2023, para 10).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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