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• It Pays To Get Certification - Sue Gee, I-Programmer
  The Open Source Jobs Report 2022, published today, reinforces the message that gaining certification is very worthwhile for developers. Meanwhile the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022, published today, reveals that over half of developers engage with the video-based online courses that lead to certification. Being encouraged to acquire new skills via online courses is something […]
• Purdue Backs Off Income-Share Agreements - Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed
  Purdue University has paused new enrollments in its income-share agreement program, a financing mechanism both praised as a bold experiment to make college more accessible and criticized as a predatory scheme that traps students in dodgy and expensive contracts. Known as Back a Boiler, the program was quietly paused earlier this month, with a message […]
• Education Department delays gainful employment proposal until 2023 - Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
  The U.S. Department of Education pushed back the timeline for publishing its proposal for a revised gainful employment rule to next year, meaning the earliest it could go into effect is mid-2024.  The gainful employment rule is intended to ensure students who complete career education programs can find work and pay back their student debt. […]
• House committee: End loophole allowing tuition-share agreements between OPMs and colleges - Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
  The U.S. House Committee on Appropriations released a report Wednesday accompanying a fiscal 2023 funding bill for the Ed Department and other agencies. The report said the committee was “deeply concerned” about online program management companies, or OPMs. These companies contract with colleges to provide services — including marketing, recruitment and course design — for […]
• Credential stacking drove 1.1% increase in undergraduate degrees earned last year - Rick Seltzer, Higher Ed Dive
  Undergraduate credential earners totaled 3.7 million. That’s up 1.1%, or about 39,000 people, from the number reported in each of the last two years. Growth came from students with prior awards who were stacking credentials. About 1 million students graduating in 2020-21 had prior awards, up 3.9% or 37,800 students from 2019-20. First-time graduates, meanwhile, […]
• Are men more likely than women to get interviews for tech jobs? Answer: Yes. - Government Technology
  If you’ve spent a minute in the tech or tech-adjacent industry, you’ve probably noticed that men typically outnumber women. According to the numbers, that discrepancy goes all the way back to the interview process. According to job search marketplace Hired, women applying for jobs in the tech industry in 2021 were found to be 13.2 […]
• Full-time faculty wages fell 5% after inflation, AAUP says - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  Full-time faculty members’ wages decreased by 5% in 2021-22 after adjusting for inflation, according to the American Association of University Professors, which Wednesday released an annual report on the economic state of the profession. The drop represents one of the largest one-year decreases in real wages since 1972 when AAUP began tracking the measure.  After […]
• Lessons Learned: 8 Strategies for Effective Instruction - Peggy Bresnick, Fierce Education
  During the past two years, most professors have had to participate in at least some online teaching, as classes became remote. Instructors have had to grapple with two major challenges in their teaching journeys. Professors needed to find ways to continuously engage and motivate students, and they needed to reimagine courses in a rush to […]
• Here’s a closer look at which stopped-out students are reenrolling in college - Lilah Burke, Higher Ed Dive
  A whopping 39 million adults under 65 have left college without completing a credential. But in the 2020-21 academic year, just 2.4% reenrolled in class. That’s according to a recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Released early last month, it showed the number of stopped-out students grew by 1.9 million, or 5.3%, […]
• The Demands and Preferences of Online College Students Today - Carol Aslanian, Evolllution
  Online college students have several opinions that colleges should bear in mind when developing strategies to attract and recruit these students, including:• Online education is worth the cost• Online education allows me to complete my studies faster• My personal productivity is improved by studying online• To complete studies on a timely basis, summer offerings are […]
• The 'accessibility of job skilling' is at all-time highs, Coursera CEO says - Yaseen Shah, Yahoo! Money
  There is “a huge migration of people online looking to learn new skills to get new jobs,” Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda told Yahoo Finance. “The accessibility of job skilling is higher than [ever] before because you can do it online, the availability of credentials, and people can do jobs remotely, especially entry-level digital jobs.”Maggioncalda explained […]
• The ‘Pernicious’ Practice of Withholding Transcripts to Collect Debt - Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
  Should unpaid debts to their colleges stop students from getting jobs or continuing their educations? Some government officials don’t think so, and they are targeting transcript withholding, in which colleges and universities prevent former students from receiving academic transcripts they need for employment or enrollment at a new institution. This is a tiny piece of […]
• Bring in the Translators and Decoders: The Language of Credentialing Needs Help – Part Two - Holly Zanville, et al; Evolllution
  No matter what kind of system, whatever provides a credential of purpose and value, whether that be technical degrees, a workforce opportunity or increase in upskilling all the way through different types of degrees, one of the biggest challenges is a poorly designed structure. We also talked about advising and onboarding to purposeful careers. This […]
• Research confirms AI adoption growing but governance is lagging - Chris J. Preimesberger, Venture Beat
  While it’s true that the adoption of artificial intelligence in various applications is yielding tangible results for all kinds of enterprises, there is a downside: AI’s full potential isn’t being realized because of a lack of human expertise to optimize it for business purposes.  The survey indicates that the disparity between the substantial increase in […]
• A world of disruption awaits: Are all universities ready? - Gary Bolles and Alejandro Caballero, University World News
  When the pandemic era ends, a return to old models may work for some institutions in some economies. What is more likely is that educational institutions that don’t start transforming now may become obsolete in the future. Hybrid models, bundling of learning content, crowdsourcing platforms and other educational shifts will continue to threaten traditional players […]
• Not Lonely at the Top: ORNL Leads Open Science with the Frontier Exascale Supercomputer - Mary Grush, Campus Technology
  Twice a year since 1993, the famed TOP500 list project has meticulously measured and ranked the world's fastest, top-performing, nondistributed supercomputer systems. The latest list, published in June 2022, highlighted a new milestone in computing as Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier HPE Cray EX soared into the number one spot as the first supercomputer ever […]
• It’s Time To Take Teacher Burnout Seriously. Here’s How - Tim Klein and Belle Liang, EdSurge
  As we’ve expanded our work and research to schools and colleges across the country, there’s a shift emerging: it’s not just students and their families in desperate need of support. It is educators themselves reaching out for our help. Teachers, school administrators and academic leaders in public and private schools have been seeking our services […]
• Second Chance Pell helps deliver degrees to over 9,000 incarcerated students - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  Over 9,000 incarcerated students have earned a certificate or diploma through the Second Chance Pell initiative since it launched, according to a report from the Vera Institute of Justice, a research organization focused on criminal justice reform. From 2016 through 2021, a total of 28,119 incarcerated students used federal Pell grants to enroll in a […]
• How technology is shaping learning in higher education - Claudio Brasca, et al; McKinsey
  In an earlier article, we looked at the broader changes in higher education that have been prompted by the pandemic. But perhaps none has advanced as quickly as the adoption of digital learning tools. Faculty and students see substantial benefits, and adoption rates are a long way from saturation, so we can expect uptake to […]
• How Can E-Learning Benefit From Using Gamification? - Mohd Sohel Ather, ATD Blog
  Over the past several years, gamification has become a buzzword, used in everything from driving engagement at conferences to use cases in e-learning. Gamification helps in e-learning because it allows you to leverage the competitiveness to make training more dynamic. Over the years, researchers have identified how the interactive learning process benefits humans and how […]