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• New research shows OER’s biggest impact isn’t cost—it’s completion - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  Free textbooks, when fully embraced by administrators and faculty, lead to better student outcomes, a new American Association of Colleges and Universities report finds. Open educational resources, or OER, emerged at the turn of the century to make college less expensive. A two-year study examining 700,000 student records and featuring 240 faculty interviews across 15 […]
• Coursera adds five Workday courses to enterprise learning catalog - Emma Thompson, Ed Tech Innovation Hub
  Coursera has added five Workday courses to its enterprise catalog, expanding access to training on the cloud software provider’s finance, human resources, payroll and student applications for organizations using Coursera’s workforce learning service. Workday provides enterprise cloud applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management and analytics. Anthony Salcito, Coursera’s Senior Vice President and […]
• How to integrate AI-enabled lifelong learning across disciplines - Tim Brown, Times Higher Education
  The traditional boundary between a traditional degree and active professional development has permanently dissolved, writes Tim Brown. AI skills need to be taught in a similarly joined-up way. An uncomfortable truth for the higher education sector is that artificial intelligence is reshaping how work gets done. Graduates will need to enter AI-enabled workplaces with a […]
• Measuring the Impact of Continuing Education - Lisa Rochman, Evolllution
  Continuing education (CE) is often one of the most responsive parts of postsecondary institutions. It is where many institutions move quickly to respond to changing workforce needs, emerging industries, community priorities and the growing need for lifelong learning. That role is becoming more important as workers must adapt quicker, employers respond to changing skill requirements […]
• Course Design as an Act of Care - Julian King and Catherine Patterson, Faculty Focus
  Designing a learning experience is too often treated as a workflow task rather than a relational practice. It becomes about moving content online, checking accessibility boxes, or aligning outcomes to rubrics. In the process, design can become transactional. But course design is, at its core, an act of care. Care is the everyday practice of […]
• 'Workforce Pell' kicks off, but colleges find that few programs qualify - Elissa Nadworny, NPR
  To qualify, programs must meet length and time parameters (between eight and 14 weeks and between 150 and 599 instructional hours), train for an in-demand field and demonstrate earnings and job placements. But like thousands of existing workforce training programs, this CNA class at St. Paul College doesn't quite meet those qualifications: It is only […]
• Online Computer Science Degree: Why Flexible Tech Education is becoming a Business Priority (UK)
  Technology skills are no longer confined to the IT department. Retailers need data teams, manufacturers depend on software systems, financial firms compete through automation and small businesses increasingly rely on digital platforms to reach customers. The result is a labour market in which computer science knowledge has become a practical business asset.For many people, however, […]
• Bridging the gap between secondary, further and higher education: a tale of three sectors - Sue Williamson and Michelle Morgan; Higher Education Policy Inatitute (UK)
  In this blog, we explain why there is an urgent need for the secondary, further education and higher education sectors to interact and collaborate more effectively to create a better understanding of student learning at these levels of study – helping to more effectively bridge the transition of students. This is especially critical as a […]
• How does online deep learning occur among college students? An empirical investigation based on CoI - Qingshuang Huang & Rong He; Nature
  In the context of global digital transformation in education and post-pandemic reforms, online teaching has evolved from an emergency response into an essential instructional mode in higher education. Enhancing the quality of university students’ online learning and fostering their capacity for online deep learning (OnlineDL) have thus become key concerns in the educational field. Drawing […]
• Trump, who had signed an order to the effect, handed legal defeat after judge sided with Democratic-led states - the Guardian
  A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule ⁠stripping public service workers of eligibility for federal student loan forgiveness if it deems their employers to have a “substantial illegal purpose.” US district judge ⁠Myong Joun in ⁠Boston sided ​with Democratic-led states, cities and non-profits that argued the US Department […]
• ETS acquires ACT, consolidating two testing giants - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  The move comes as more colleges are going back to requiring standardized tests for admissions. Educational nonprofit ETS is acquiring ACT — roughly two years after the standardized test maker was taken over by a private equity firm. The deal will create a testing giant reaching 35 million people every year and comes as several […]
• Understand AI in 14 minutes - Anthropic's Chloe Lubinski [ARC 2026], Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
  In this presentation, Chloe Lubinski from Anthropic warns that AI is advancing at a breakneck speed driven by massive capital, scaling laws, and the onset of recursive self-improvement. Unlike traditional coded software, these neural networks learn from vast amounts of human language, meaning they are trained on our collective thoughts, values, and concepts. Crucially, internal […]
• Building Synergy and Empowering Learners: Strategies for Higher Ed Success - Adam Fein, Evolllution
  For higher education broadly, it’s been great to see the growth in diversity. For us, we’re a federally designated Minority- (MSI) and Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). We are now the third-largest university in Texas, and 41% of our students are first-generation. It says a lot about our nation’s changing demographics and being prepared, not only to […]
• Making Learning Stick - Jason Lodge; Philipp Lorenz-Spreen; American Scientist
  A significant bottleneck is our ability to only pay attention to a certain number of things at a time. Decades of research have told us that things we selectively pay attention to are much more likely to be processed, because they enter into consciousness and memory. These things then impact us in a persistent way. […]
• One New Thing: Giving Students Individualized Work and Feedback, Even in Large Classes - Melissa Morriss-Olson, US News
  The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed PrairieLearn, an online assessment platform designed to provide students with immediate feedback and opportunities to practice course concepts. Originally created to support high-enrollment engineering and computer science courses, the system generates unique versions of problems for each student and instantly evaluates their responses. This allows students to work through […]
• Trump administration caps student visa stays at 4 years under final rule - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  The Trump administration will cap international students’ stay in the U.S. at four years, regardless of the length of their academic program, under a rule finalized Thursday. Two types of visas popular among foreign students and academics — F and J visas — will require holders to apply to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security […]
• Top Companies Driving Innovation in AI-Powered Education: Carnegie Learning and More - Globe NewsWire
  The artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching market is witnessing substantial growth, with projections indicating an increase from $1.71 billion in 2025 to $2.16 billion in 2026, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.8%. By 2030, the market size is expected to reach $5.55 billion, influenced by factors such as AI integration in classrooms, […]
• I start my lectures by introducing my teaching assistant: GenAI - Dan Sarofian-Butin, Times Higher Education
  Eighty students stare out at me on the first day of the semester, waiting for me to begin lecturing so they can disappear into their own thoughts, their laptops, their surreptitious texting with friends. It is the perfect embodiment of how large classes have fuelled the depersonalisation of higher education. That’s exactly why I, in […]
• UC Berkeley shows no signs of AI grade inflation as professors adapt - Amanda McLeod, Daily Californian
  A study released by UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education found a correlation between the release of ChatGPT in 2022 and an increased share of A grades for classes with take-home assignments at a selective public university in Texas. However, Berkeleytime data collected by The Daily Californian found no equivalent trends at UC […]
• What if the U.S. Government Owned Stock in AI Companies? - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  Who is responsible for compensating Americans for jobs lost to AI? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has floated the idea that the United States government should become a stockholder in artificial intelligence companies. Yes, actually own shares of the thriving major AI companies! Altman’s concept is that companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other leaders […]