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• Just-in-Time Online Tutoring: Supporting Learning Anywhere, Anytime - Stefan Hrastinski, EDUCAUSE Review
  Although there is an abundance of digital education resources, we must find better ways to support learners when and where they have a need.  What if learning could be supported anywhere, anytime, based on the needs of learners?  Although an abundance of digital education resources are available online, learners have questions and need guidance when they […]
• How AI-Based Interviewing Will Transform Career Preparation in Higher Education - Alan Jones, Suzan Harkness and Nathan Mondragon, EDUCAUSE Review
  The increased growth of emerging technologies and AI interviewing provides a multifaceted approach to candidate profiling and screening.  Competency and personality-trait profiles can be created with AI-trained algorithms to identify and score behaviors and responses during the recorded interviews. The AI-based profiles can then be mitigated for bias (which, if successful, could increase the diversity […]
• Looking Beyond the College Degree - Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed
  As the pandemic wreaks havoc on the job market, a quarter of American adults say they plan to enroll in an education or training program within the next six months, according to the latest results of a national poll conducted by the Strada Education Network. That share was 37 percent for 18- to 24-year-olds and […]
• COVID-19 ushers in a new era of cybersecurity - BILL CONNER, eCampus News
  This semester, higher-ed institutions around the world have struggled to keep up with the digital demands of remote learning. As these organizations build the infrastructure that will support distance learning moving forward, it’s more critical than ever for the education industry to consider the safety and security of its students and faculty members as we […]
• Bowdoin announces most classes will be taught online this fall - RACHEL OHMSTAFF, Press-Herald
  Most students will not return to campus in the fall and nearly all classes will be taught online, according to a letter sent to students, faculty and staff Monday morning.  The liberal arts college in Brunswick announced its plan for the fall semester in a letter from President Clayton Rose to students, faculty and staff Monday […]
• Data Security for New Norm Distance Learning - Santa Clarita Valley Signal
  Whatever the future of distance learning, online classroom offerings will still be a draw for working adults. This survey by the Strada Education Network showed that over half the Latino and Black (52% and 54%), as well as a significant portion of Caucasians surveyed (34%), plan to enroll in online education and training programs after […]
• Universal Broadband: The Time Has Come - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  In the weeks of COVID-19 isolation, the disparity of access to the internet has become more obvious as school-age children and adult learners have been deprived access to education and livelihoods. After we emerge from the pandemic, the internet will be even more prominent than before in education, business, government and social engagement. In isolation, […]
• How MIT Is Crowdsourcing Its Reopening Plans for the Fall - Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge
  As MIT considered whether to hold classes online or in person in the fall, and how to operate safely in either case, it decided to tap the collective wisdom of its faculty, staff and students. So it decided to run a giant crowdsourcing effort. That included running 69 community forums via Zoom, where participants were broken […]
• Online learning during lockdown helps us find ways to teach differently abled students - Marcia Lyner-Cleophas, Maverick
  Students are usually assessed in specific ways during a specific period, such as two or three hours answering memorised questions. Given the current online reality, we are now forced to consider and to work with students with varying abilities who do not fit into the average mould described above. More importantly, we must think of […]
• 7 ways the coronavirus pandemic could change college this fall and forever - Abigail Hess, CNBC
  “I wouldn’t be surprised to see enrollment in residential college programs drop by roughly 10% or so in the fall, and revenue to fall around 20% if students won’t be able to attend in-person in the fall,” says Horn. “On the flip side, I think we will see enrollments in online programs rise quite a […]
• One of the Largest Experiments ever Conducted in Higher Education and Lifelong Learning Happened on edX. Here is what they Learned. - ANANT AGARWAL, EDX NEWS
  Today, we’re excited to share insights from a new study on online learning. The study, which is one of the largest experiments ever conducted in higher education and lifelong learning, shows the incredible power and potential of at-scale online learning platforms, specifically edX, as particle accelerators for learning.  This new study underscores one of the […]
• More than half of Yalies consider time off if classes go online - MATT KRISTOFFERSEN, Yale Daily News
  As the Yale community awaits announcements regarding how education will continue in the fall semester, the News surveyed Yale College students from the classes of 2021 through 2023 about their opinions regarding online learning. Results from the survey suggest that 52 percent of student respondents are at least “likely” to postpone enrollment if students are […]
• College closings, economic upheaval make a case for blockchain adoption - Ted Mitchell, Education Dive
  "Addressing issues of interoperability between education and employment are more important than ever," writes American Council on Education President Ted Mitchell.  In periods of economic crisis like this one, higher education typically serves as both a backstop for displaced workers and an engine for economic recovery. But today's crisis is exposing widening fault lines between educational […]
• 'Better Every Semester': How Faculty Use Open Educational Resources to Improve Courses - Rebecca Koenig, EdSurge
  Much of the attention that open educational resources have earned focuses on their low cost. After all, a free or inexpensive alternative to a pricey commercial textbook can make a big difference for students at institutions like Salt Lake Community College, who are “mostly not affluent,” Hardy says. But OER advocates think open access course […]
• Could the online, for-profit college industry be “a winner in this crisis”? - MEREDITH KOLODNER and SARAH BUTRYMOWICZ, Hechinger Report
  Online for-profit colleges like these see an unusual opportunity to boost enrollment during the coronavirus pandemic. Their flexible academic programs may be newly attractive to the many workers who have lost their jobs, to colleges students whose campuses are closed and to people who, from home, now seek to change careers. And the colleges’ parent […]
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Matters - Ted Mitchell and John O'Brien, EDUCAUSE Review
  Aspirations for social equity and transformation of students' lives have been the heart and soul of higher education from its inception.  At the same time, despite idealistic aspirations and concrete progress, inequities in higher education persist. Indeed, higher education, a sector that leads in so many areas, still has much progress to make in leading the […]
• The Moral Moments Project: Where Technology and Compassion Meet - Susan Russell, et al; EDUCAUSE Review
  An online project asks students and instructors to reflect on their thoughts and their interactions with others in order to build community, inclusion, motivation, and empathy.  We cannot change the past, but we can address the present needs of our young people by reframing teaching and learning in our classrooms and our communities. The Moral Moments […]
• Reopening guide encourages colleges to have a backup plan - Natalie Schwartz, Education Dive
  A new guide jointly published by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and Tuscany Strategy Consulting spells out the steps college leaders must take to resume in-person instruction amid the pandemic.  That includes developing a way to monitor the spread of the virus on campus and ensuring the institution […]
• Blended learning will reshape the future of learning - JARED STEIN, eCampus News
  Some have called the COVID-19-related campus closures education’s black swan event. It may well prove to be. At the very least, the current moment presents higher education with an opportunity to adapt how it designs and delivers education in ways that anticipate future crises, and ultimately make teaching more effective and engaging for students. I […]
• Coursera's new Workforce Recovery Initiative gives unemployed workers free access to 90% of its online course catalog - Mara Leighton, Business Insider
  Coursera, a popular online learning platform, has launched a Workforce Recovery Initiative that gives unemployed workers access to 90% of its catalog of courses and certificate programs through government agencies and community colleges for zero cost to either one. Ideally, it'll help unemployed workers re-skill and re-enter the workforce.https://www.businessinsider.com/coursera-workforce-recovery-initiative