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• AI Will Evolve Into an Organizational Strategy for All - Ethan Mollick, Wired
  This shift represents a fundamental change in how we structure and operate our businesses and institutions. While the integration of AI into our daily lives has happened very quickly (AI assistants are one of the fastest product adoptions in history), so far, organizations have seen limited benefits. But the coming year will mark a tipping […]
• Apprenticeships are a trending alternative to college — but there’s a hitch - Jon Marcus, Hechinger Report
  Apprenticeships combine paid on-the-job training with classroom time. Increasing their use has bipartisan support and was a rare subject of agreement between the presidential candidates in the election just ended. Apprenticeships have also benefited from growing public skepticism about the need for college: Only one in four adults now says having a four-year degree is […]
• Looking for internships? They are in short supply - Jon Marcus, Hechinger Report
  Not only are there growing concerns about the supply of apprenticeships meeting demand; there’s a shortage of another important workforce training tool — internships. There were an estimated 5.7 million fewer high-quality internships last year than learners who wanted to intern, according to the Business-Higher Education Forum, or BHEF.Employers last year provided 2.5 million high-quality […]
• Alternative Credentials Market Size and Share - Fortune Business Insights
  The global alternative credentials market size was valued at USD 16.33 billion in 2023. The market is projected to grow from USD 18.83 billion in 2024 to USD 69.87 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 17.8% during the forecast period. This market refers to the education and training sectors that provides non-traditional credentials aimed […]
• Columbia College Chicago to cut programs, lay off up to 25 faculty next fall amid budget troubles - Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune
  Columbia College Chicago plans to cut 11 undergraduate and graduate programs and eliminate up to 25 faculty positions next academic year to “promote future growth centered around student success” amid ongoing budget trouble and declining enrollment, the school announced Monday evening. “We wanted to make sure that our curriculum reflects what industry needs are and […]
• College operating costs rose 3.4% in fiscal 2024 - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  Costs for operating a college rose 3.4% in fiscal 2024, according to the latest Higher Education Price Index from the Commonfund Institute. The price increases outpaced Commonfund’s preliminary projections this spring of 3% for the year. However, the HEPI showed that inflation has slowed more than half a percentage point from fiscal 2023 and is […]
• Closing the gap: A call for more inclusive language technologies - Chinasa T. Okolo and Marie Tano, Brookings
  A growing body of work has identified a digital language divide: the disparity between languages in terms of digital content availability, accessibility, and technological support.Multilingual machine translation technologies have the potential to both mitigate and exacerbate these issues. Efforts to close the digital language divide in a responsible manner must go beyond merely adding more […]
• Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast hosts can now talk to you, too - Jay Peters, the Verge
  Google’s NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews have been a surprise hit this year, and today Google company is starting to roll out a big new feature: the ability to actually talk with the AI “hosts” of the overviews. When the feature is available to you, you can try it out with new Audio Overviews. […]
• AI-authored abstracts ‘more authentic’ than human-written ones - Jack Groves, Times Higher Ed
  Journal abstracts written with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) are perceived as more authentic, clear and compelling than those created solely by academics, a study suggests. While many academics may scorn the idea of outsourcing article summaries to generative AI, a new investigation by researchers at Ontario’s University of Waterloo found peer reviewers rated […]
• OpenStax Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Providing Open Educational Resources - Matt Jones, Open Stax
  OpenStax, which expands access of K–12 and higher-education resources and research-informed educational tools, is celebrating its 25th anniversary as 2024 comes to a close, according to a news release. The educational initiative from Rice University has served almost 37 million students in 153 countries and saved students nearly $3 billion in educational costs since its […]
• Millersville University professor creates first-of-its-kind AI course - Sarah Metts, WGAL
  Dr. Oliver Dreon is the author of the course. It's intended to educate on what AI is, as well as how to properly use it, detect it, and teach it to students. "Millersville hosted a summit in the spring around AI, and it was really awesome to hear how this is impacting so many different […]
• How Employees Are Using AI in the Workplace - Molly Bookner, Hubspot Blog
  Trust in AI-generated content is increasing, with 33% expressing confidence in the technology (up 27% from May 2023). Furthermore, 39% of full-time employees in the U.S. report having already used an AI chatbot to assist them, with 74% acknowledging the tools’ effectiveness. “The implementation of AI in the workplace helps augment staff performance, streamline human […]
• What's next with AI in higher education? - Science X Staff in MSN.com
  Two years on from the release of ChatGPT and other generative AI language programs, schools and universities are continuing to grapple with how to manage the complex challenges and opportunities of the technology. Associate Professor Jason Lodge from UQ's School of Education is developing a systematic approach to guide educators on how they can adapt […]
• This week in 5 numbers: The coming decline in high school graduates - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  From the latest estimates on future populations of high school graduates to financial forecasts for higher ed, here are the top-line figures from some of our biggest stories of the week.By the numbers  10.3%The projected drop in high school graduates between 2025 and 2041, according to the latest forecast by Western Interstate Commission for Higher […]
• 80 colleges could close by 2029, even as elite Ivy League schools thrive - Jennifer Mattson, Fast Company
  American higher education is in crisis. This year, some two dozen colleges shut their doors and more are forecast to close in 2025, CNBC reports. According to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, as many as 80 colleges and universities are expected to close in the next five years. That working paper […]
• ASU Online grad embraces creativity, lifelong learning while pursuing dream of becoming a professor - Mariana Lozovolu, Arizona State University
  Carol Higgins is a remarkable example of the power of lifelong learning and creative exploration. At 50 years old, Higgins embodies resilience, curiosity and the pursuit of excellence as she graduates with a degree in interdisciplinary arts and performance from Arizona State University’s New College. Her journey is as diverse as her talents — spanning […]
• AI in education: Opportunities, challenges and the human connection - Kevin Steeves and Ian Coronado, Community College Daily
  As faculty grapple with ChatGPT’s emergence in student assignments and administrators field questions about AI policies, community colleges find themselves at a critical juncture. While some institutions have responded with restrictive policies and AI detection software, Oregon’s Lane Community College has taken a different approach. Through its presidential task force on AI, Lane is exploring […]
• OpenAI launches real-time vision for ChatGPT - Martin Crowley, AI Tool Report
  First announced in May, OpenAI has finally released real-time vision capabilities for ChatGPT, to celebrate the 6th day of the ‘12 Days of OpenAI.’ Users can now point their phone camera at any object, and ChatGPT will ‘see’ what it is, understand it, and answer questions about it, in real-time. For example, if someone was […]
• Americans Are Skeptical About AI Use in Higher Education - Olivia Sawyer, New America
  Specifically, when asked about students’ use of AI, the public remains skeptical. Half (53 percent) believe that students’ use of AI negatively impacts their learning, compared to 27 percent who think it could be positive and 18 percent who think there is no impact (see Figure 1). When it comes to how colleges are using […]
• We’re living in a world of artificial intelligence – it’s academic publishing that needs to change - Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Times Higher Ed
  Clearly, GenAI tools have the potential to exacerbate the crisis in confidence in academic publishing because readers are unsure whether what they are reading was written by humans, machines or both. At the same time, academic publishing, in many contexts, is gripped by a publish-or-perish culture, where academics have a strong incentive to outsource their […]