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• By The Numbers: The Rise Of Online Learning In The U.S. - Ilana Hamilton & Veronica Beagle, Forbes
  Online colleges and universities enroll nearly 1.1 million students—about 6% of all U.S. postsecondary learners. In 2021, about 53% of all postsecondary degree seekers in the U.S. took at least some online classes. Around 26% studied exclusively online. Approximately 65% of students at online schools identify as female. Nearly 7.5 million U.S. students take online […]
• 5 Basic Components of an Online College Course - Cole Claybourne, US News
  Thanks to modern technology, students no longer have to be bound to a physical classroom to pursue a college education. Equipped with a device and an internet connection, students can earn an associate, bachelor's or master's degree from the comfort of their own home. “It’s the way of education, and it’s the way that students […]
• Superhuman? What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell? - Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing
  No matter what happens next, today, as anyone who uses AI knows, we do not have an AI that does every task better than a human, or even most tasks. But that doesn’t mean that AI hasn’t achieved superhuman levels of performance in some surprisingly complex jobs, at least if we define superhuman as better […]
• UCF Student Graduates After Studying Online from Ukraine, Providing Aid - Robert Stephens, UCF Today
  Mia Willard began her UCF education from Kyiv before war broke out. In the midst of explosions and near misses, she continued an amazing undergraduate journey that took her deeper into danger. She candidly responds to questions very few people will ever have to answer, but “How do you plan to celebrate?” catches her by […]
• Keystone College in ‘danger of imminent closure,’ accreditor says - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  Keystone College, in Pennsylvania, has until Aug. 1 to prove compliance with accreditation standards — or risk losing access to federal student aid and potentially closing. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education last week issued the private nonprofit a show-cause order — a final warning before MSCHE could pull accreditation. Keystone will need to […]
• UPenn's AI Masters Program Intends to Shape Policy, New Jobs - Ariana Perez-Castells, The Philadelphia Inquirer
  Courses will cover topics including mathematics, computing, machine learning, applications of AI, and large-scale data sets, with the goal of preparing students to influence policies and fill jobs that don't yet exist.  In the five years since Chris Callison-Burch has been teaching an artificial intelligence class at the University of Pennsylvania, his class has grown […]
• FIU recognized for innovative professional development program that advances global learning - FIU
  For seven years, FIU has conducted dynamic virtual courses that connect Panthers with their international peers. Students in Miami have met with others around the world online for instruction, discussions, projects and even research collaborations, effectively gaining global perspectives and learning about different approaches to solving problems. Nearly 6,000 FIU students have participated in these […]
• Texas Tech Launches $10K Degree Completion Program - Leslie Cransford and Justin Rex, Texas Tech
  With Texas Tech's degree completion path, students can begin their educational journey with no financial commitment through free microcredential courses offered as a blend of online learning and in-person supplemental instruction at the Irving site. Participants also can leverage their previous work and life experience to earn up to nine free credit hours through the […]
• Inside Arizona State University's OpenAI Partnership - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology
  In January, Arizona State University announced a major partnership with OpenAI to explore the potential of ChatGPT in education. We caught up with ASU CIO Lev Gonick to find out more about that collaboration, how the university is approaching the use of generative AI across campus, and what the key takeaways have been so far. […]
• Academic Approach to AI Maturing as Technology Evolves - Lauren Coffey, Inside Higher Ed
  The conference, co-hosted this week by Inside Higher Ed and Times Higher Education in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, brought together hundreds of college administrators and education technology company officials to explore the possibilities and challenges of digital transformation in higher ed. “I’ve been on a digital transformation for over 20 years; the […]
• Generative AI to Boost Productivity, Skill Creation, Report - Ben Wodecki, Jr., AI Business
  MIT, Google-authored report likens generative AI’s transformative potential to electricity. Despite being early in its life cycle, generative AI is already providing users with sizable productivity gains the report suggests. The technology will “increase and spread as people and organizations come up with complementary innovations that leverage generative AI’s capabilities.” The report referenced an OpenAI […]
• Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety - Maryellen Weimer, Faculty Focus
  The authors of the Teaching Sociology article recommend teachers respond first by finding out if they have anxious students, how many, and what’s causing the anxiety. Is it related to the course specifically, their confidence as learners, worries about the grade, test anxiety, or the absence of some necessary skill? It’s a good recommendation because […]
• Specially abled students get control over their learning journey through online education - Education Times
  The rising popularity of online education has emerged as a transformative force, breaking barriers, and providing equal education opportunities, particularly for differently abled individuals. In India, the differently abled community accounts for 2.68 crore people, which is over 2.21% of the population as per reports by the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with […]
• Exploring the effects of AI literacy in teacher learning: an empirical study - Hua Du, et al; Nature
  As most practitioners (including teachers) do not know how AI functions and cannot make full use of AI in education, there is an urgent need to investigate teachers’ intentions to learn AI and related determinants so as to promote their AI learning. Motivated by these gaps, our aim to explore the antecedents of K-12 teachers’ […]
• E-Learning Experiences Among Nursing Students: A Scoping Review - Dove Press
  Fourteen articles were included for scoping review, themes include blended E-learning, nursing students’ e-learning readiness, and The challenges with the E-learning system. First: Blended learning may be a beneficial educational strategy in nursing education but it also requires a cautious and carefully planned approach with sufficient time for each student. Second: E-readiness is an important […]
• The AI-Augmented Professor of 2024 - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  It is early August 2024. I am about to begin the fall term of teaching, research, administrative tasks and advising with the help of generative artificial intelligence tools and assistants. This is what I anticipate will be reality for savvy faculty members in the fall of this year. Versions of the technology capabilities mentioned are […]
• Shares of two big online education stocks tank more than 10% as students use ChatGPT Michelle Fox, CNBC
  The rapid rise of artificial intelligence appears to be taking a toll on the shares of online education companies Chegg and Coursera. Both stocks sank by more than 10% on Tuesday after issuing disappointing guidance in part because of students using AI tools such as ChatGPT from OpenAI. Chegg, which announced a new CEO, said […]
• Digital twins: When and why to use one - Mickael Brossard, et al; McKinsey
  Digital twins: When and why to use one - Mickael Brossard, et al; McKinseyIt is helpful to think of digital twins less as a tool for designers, engineers, and manufacturers and more as a laboratory in which nearly any organization can optimize its most precious resource—information—to continually push the boundaries of what it can accomplish. […]
• Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens to the students? - Jon Marcus, Hechinger Report
  About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from […]
• What Do We Know About Micro-Credentials? Academic Minute - Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
  Daniel Douglas is a Lecturer in Sociology & Director of Social Science Research at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Education and Employment Research Center at Rutgers University. My colleagues and I surveyed students in non-credit programs at two community colleges.  A review of existing studies on non-degree […]