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• Cyborgs, trolls and bots: A guide to online misinformation - David Klepper, Daily Progress
  Cyborgs, trolls and bots can fill the internet with lies and half-truths. Understanding them is key to learning how misinformation spreads online. As the 2016 election showed, social media are increasingly used to amplify false claims and divide Americans over hot-button issues including race and immigration. Researchers who study misinformation predict it will get worse leading […]
• China: Online educational services see demand surge amid virus epidemic - Cheng Yu, China Daily
  Online education companies across China are seeing a surge in demand for study-at-home products as the novel coronavirus epidemic has hampered normal educational services in the country. Following the postponement of school semesters, over 80 educational companies have offered free online courses to students in China, a country that boasts nearly 280 million students ranging from […]
• ACE Receives ED Funds to Explore Blockchain's Potential - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology
  The committee will oversee the development of a research paper that will "review the current use of blockchain in education as well as identify opportunities and challenges for potential applications that can advance equity in educational and workforce outcomes." In addition, the initiative plans to launch a competitive challenge to fund blockchain pilot programs, with […]
• AI and machine learning will dominate the CIO agenda this year - Steve Phillpott, Information Management
  Some industry experts say over 90 percent of the world’s data was generated in the last two years alone. By 2023, enterprises, machines, industries, consumers, science and more will be generating 103 zettabytes per year, according to IDC. Now more than ever, organizations realize that to manage this unprecedented data growth, a solid data strategy must […]
• Anant Agarwal and the democratization of education through technology - Digital Future Society
  Recognizing that we need to expand the options for students to gain an education, higher education institutions are starting to innovate, creating new ways to unbundle degrees and create non-linear, modular career and education pathways. One main change we’ll see is the unbundling of traditional learning “packages” — Associate’s, Bachelor’s, and Master’s degrees — into more […]
• Coursera Introduces an Annual Subscription Plan for Learners Similar to Its Business and Campus Offering - IBL News
  This week, Coursera started piloting a new annual subscription program for individual learners at $399 per year. This offering, called Coursera Plus, resembles the existing subscription plans of Coursera for Business and Coursera for Campus – although these ones include analytics and other integration services. Coursera’s plan follows the trend towards the subscription pricing model, increasingly […]
• How one university is teaching through the coronavirus outbreak - Hallie Busta, Education Dive
  How one university is teaching through the coronavirus outbreak - Hallie Busta, Education DiveColleges with campuses in China have been affected more directly. New York University has turned to remote communication and instructional technology at its Shanghai campus, which so far has been delayed from opening until Feb. 17. About half of the 1,500 students there […]
• Opportunities and challenges as lessons go online amid the coronavirus outbreak - - Heather Hao and Zhang Huimin, CGTN
  Taking advantage of the moment, online educational companies have started taking their operations online. EF Education First, an English language training provider has canceled or postponed all offline lessons and then, took them online.  Many private educational and training institutions besides the Lucerne-based education giant, such as New Oriental, TAL Education, and Offcn Education have successively […]
• California's community colleges chancellor defends new online college - Diana Lambert, EdSource
  Despite a bumpy start and an abrupt change in its leadership, California’s new online college is on track and moving in the right direction, the chancellor of California’s community college system told state senators Thursday.  “While at times the road has been rocky, I believe Calbright is well on its way to achieving the objectives the Legislature […]
• Leading tech trends have big implications for grads - BY LAURA ASCIONE, eCampus News
  Students should pay attention to emerging and prominent tech trends if they're looking for strong future career prospects. As technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence evolve, students can look to tech trends–some emerging, some well-established–to explore paths of study leading to high-paying STEM careers. A new report from GlobalData, a data and analytics company, […]
• Alibaba's virus-beating education app draws Chinese students' ire - COCO LIU, Nikkei
  Alibaba Group Holding's attempt to promote online education as the coronavirus forces schools across China to remain closed has hit an unexpected barrier: disgruntled, tech-savvy students. Young people vote down DingTalk in protest at having to study during school shutdowns. DingTalk, the tech conglomerates's messaging app, recently launched e-classes for schools. Now the app is taking a […]
• Coronavirus: Universities cancel in-class mid-term exams, shift to online learning - Jolene Ang, Straits Times
  The Singapore Management University (SMU) is cancelling all in-class graded assessments - including mid-term examinations slated to take place from this week - in view of the coronavirus outbreak.  circular on frequently asked questions sent out to SMU students and seen by The Straits Times said that for all undergraduate and Juris Doctor (a law graduate […]
• Arizona's top court agrees to review lawsuit over rising tuition at public universities - Natalie Schwartz, Education Dive
  The Arizona Supreme Court agreed this week to review a dismissed lawsuit that takes aim at rising tuition rates at the state's public universities.   The Arizona attorney general alleges in the lawsuit that tuition increases at the state's public universities violate the state constitution's mandate to keep higher education "as nearly free as possible." The […]
• Holistic Approach for Nontraditional Students - Madeline St. Amour, Inside Higher Ed
  Community colleges need to create holistic student supports to serve their increasingly diverse student populations, according to a series of briefs released by Achieving the Dream. The holistic student supports approach requires colleges to tie support services into a "seamless, timely and personal experience for every student," according to the nonprofit group. It includes comprehensive advising, […]
• Income-Driven Repayment Plans for Student Loans: Budgetary Costs and Policy Options - Cngressional Budget Office
  Introduced as a way to make student loan repayment more manageable, income-driven plans limit payments to a percentage of borrowers’ income and allow for loan forgiveness after 20 or 25 years. The Congressional Budget Office examined how income-driven plans differ from plans that require fixed monthly payments, how enrollment in income-driven plans has changed overtime, and how those […]
• As Coronavirus Spreads, House-bound Chinese Students Are Causing An Online Ed-Tech Boom- John Cumbers, Forbes
  China is on lockdown, and the whole world is watching developments about the coronavirus in real-time. Yet amidst the fear and panic, there’s a surprising consequence: students and workers who are effectively captive behind closed doors are logging online en masse. The result? New innovation and a burgeoning demand for a new way of learning […]
• U., peer institutions oppose White House cutting research and education budget - David Veldran, Princetonian
  In the press release, AAU President Mary Sue Coleman wrote that the proposal “reduce[s] investments in student aid and vital scientific research at the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other agencies” and “drastically cut[s] or end[s] several Education Department student aid programs including Federal Work-Study, the Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants, […]
• Trump Budget Calls For Cuts To Disability Programs - Michelle Diament, Disability Scoop
  President Donald Trump is proposing cuts to countless programs benefiting people with disabilities, advocates say, touching everything from Medicaid to employment and autism treatment.  Trump unveiled his $4.8 trillion budget proposal this week for the 2021 fiscal year that starts in October. The president’s budget is unlikely to be rubber-stamped by Congress, but essentially serves […]
• India Opens the Door Wide for Online Learning - Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed
  The government of India is for the first time allowing universities to offer fully online degrees -- a change that could reshape education delivery in the country while blowing open the door to a previously limited market for U.S.-based online education services companies. For many years, Indian universities and colleges were not permitted to offer more […]
• More Trustees Fear for the Future - Rick Seltzer, Inside Higher Ed
  More than 40 percent of trustees are now very concerned about the future of higher education, up 14 points from last year, according to a survey. Trustees have grown significantly more concerned about the future of higher education in the last year, according to new polling released today that points to financial sustainability and the prices […]