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• Preparing for Tomorrow With Online Professional Development - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  We are entering the fourth industrial revolution, in which jobs and careers are changing at a dizzying pace. The impact in the working world is profound. Overall in the U.S., the average number of years that an employee stayed with an employer as of last year was 4.2. For most people in this emerging fourth industrial revolution, […]
• THE VERY HUMAN LANGUAGE OF AI - By Dr Julian Koplin, Pursuit
  Artificial intelligence can be convincingly human-like when it writes news or even poetry, but what ethical issues does this raise for the future of AI? The modern world’s advances in artificial intelligence have left many grappling with some profoundly difficult ethical questions. Questions like: if a collision is unavoidable, should a driverless car swerve to hit […]
• State Of AI And Machine Learning In 2019 - Louis Columbus, Forbes
  In-memory analytics and in-database analytics are the most important to Finance, Marketing, and Sales when it comes to scaling their AI and machine learning modeling and development efforts. R&D’s adoption of AI and machine learning is the fastest of all enterprise departments in 2019. These and many other fascinating insights are from Dresner Advisory Services’6th annual 2019 […]
• Cheating, Inc.: How Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession Overseas - Farah Stockman and Carlos Mureithi, NY Times
  Mary Mbugua, a university student in Nyeri, Kenya, went out in search of a job. At first, she tried selling insurance policies, but that only paid on commission and she never sold one. Then she sat behind the reception desk at a hotel, but it ran into financial trouble. Finally, a friend offered to help […]
• Six Reasons Why Online Programs are the Future of Education - Costa Rica News
  In the future, will having a degree even matter? According to Harvard business school professor Clayton Christensen, half of all traditional colleges are unlikely to even exist in ten years’ time due to the increase of online study. Therefore, it’s becoming clearer to many that the future of education lies in institutions embracing the idea […]
• A Syllabus for Regulating Student Data Privacy? - Emily Bruemmer, Megan Siekkinen, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - JDSupra
  The start of the new school year is approaching and a number of education vendors have already received their homework assignments. U.S. Senators Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) recently sent two letters—one to education technology companies (EdTech) and another to data brokers—expressing “concern about the vast amount of data being […]
• Success at Scale: The growth of large-scale online programs - Stephen G. Pelletier, Unbound
  In an era when many colleges and universities struggle to meet their enrollment targets, a few institutions have leapfrogged over that calculus by adding large online programs that quickly enroll hundreds—or sometimes thousands—of new students. That kind of success warrants a closer look.  [ed note: This is an especially important and under-reported movement in higher […]
• IBM Study: The Skills Gap is Not a Myth, But Can Be Addressed with Real Solutions - Yahoo Finance
  In the next three years, as many as 120 million workers in the world's 12 largest economies may need to be retrained or reskilled as a result of AI and intelligent automation, according to a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value (IBV) study. In addition, only 41 percent of CEOs surveyed say that […]
• Teacher, student drew on experience to create mental wellness course at Sask. distance education centre - Bryan Eneas, CBC News
  A distance learning centre based in Kenaston, Sask., has developed a course to help its students learn about mental wellness — including their own mental health, and the mental health of those around them. Elaina Guilmette is a teacher at the Sun West Distance Learning Centre who helped design the mental wellness class.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sunwest-distance-learning-mental-wellness-1.5274635
• Will AI replace university lecturers? Not if we make it clear why humans matter - Mark Haw, the Guardian
  Many UK universities are struggling financially, but there’s one option that is rarely discussed: replacing lecturers with artificial intelligence (AI) machines. This might sound like sci-fi – after all, the lists of occupations vulnerable to AI rarely include teaching, which is still seen as too creative for computers. But a growing database of information harvested […]
• The numerous benefits of e-learning - HR News UK
  E-learning demands quality, from both sides. Programs have to deliver knowledge and good learning content, while learners have to have self-discipline, consistency, and determination to learn. The fact that e-learning can be reached anywhere and at any time is probably the biggest advantage. Learners don’t need to travel or move and rent a place in another […]
• Citing sources: University Libraries serve key role supporting student research - Jill Stockton and McKenna Lambert, Nevada Today
  Subject librarians have specific areas of expertise and are trained information literacy experts. They know how to spot fake news and are always available to help students find and verify the credible sources they need for their academic work, or for personal areas of interest. The University Libraries also supports student success by sharing lessons online […]
• Tech giants and 2-year colleges are teaming up to teach in-demand skills - Kelly Field, Education Dive
  Amazon isn't the only tech giant actively shaping the programs that will train its future employees and customers. Google, Facebook and Apple also are collaborating with colleges as more companies face a shortage of skilled workers who can navigate an ever-evolving tech landscape. In some cases, the companies are covering the costs of the programs […]
• Aristo A.I. scores ‘A’ on 8th-grade science test - Stephen Johnson, Big Think
  An A.I. named Aristo was able to use its language and logic skills to pass a standardized exam with flying colors. Could you score an 'A' on an eighth-grade science test? If so, you're in the same league as Aristo, an artificial intelligence system whose remarkable language and logic skills highlight recent progress in the A.I. […]
• The most cost-effective ways to increase college graduation rates - Lauren Bauer, Brookings
  In “Policies and Payoffs to Addressing America’s College Graduation Deficit,” Christopher Avery, Jessica Howell, Matea Pender, and Bruce Sacerdote perform a timely, relevant, and illuminating cost-benefit analysis among competing proposals to increase college-going and completion. In their analysis they are clear about the question and the goal: what is the most efficient way to increase […]
• Changing the Equation: Empowering Adult Learners with Edtech - Luminary Labs, US Dept of Ed
  These case studies — featuring diverse stakeholders, actions and approaches, and lessons learned — prove there is not a single prescriptive path to supporting successful adult learning. Administrators, educators, and funders can apply the insights that work best in their unique contexts to advance adult education in their own communities.https://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/advancing_math_market_scan_08_22_2019.pdf
• Seventeen Questions Every College Should Be Asking - Ben Sasse, US Senator/former college president, the Atlantic
  Here’s the problem: Higher education is in the middle of multiple, massive disruptions—and it isn’t clear that the leaders of the sector grasp the magnitude of the waves of change breaking on their ivy-covered gates. As just one example, it is decreasingly clear what purpose a four-year degree should serve when technology is changing the […]
• Forget email: Scammers use CEO voice 'deepfakes' to con workers into wiring cash - Liam Tung, ZDNet
  AI-generated audio was used to trick a CEO into wiring $243,000 to a scammer's bank account. The Wall Street Journal reports that the CEO of an unnamed UK-based energy company thought he was talking on the phone with his boss, the CEO of the German parent company, who'd asked him to urgently transfer €220,000 ($243,000) to […]
• How Harvard’s Most Popular Class Became a ‘Lifestyle’ - By Geoff Colvin, Fortune
  Traditionalists may look aghast at CS50, Harvard’s introductory computer science course, which last year became the school’s most popular course of any kind. It’s taught by a young professor in jeans and a black T-shirt, David Malan, whose lectures are highly polished, fast-paced performances filled with props, demonstrations, and student involvement. Students aren’t required to […]
• Can Calbright reinvent online community college? - Wayne D'Orio, Education Dive
  California's newest public college is beginning an experiment this fall that could change how higher education serves a coveted class of students: working adults without degrees. Called Calbright, the free online community college is starting slow, offering noncredit classes with curriculum designed to teach skills requested by area companies. But less than a month before it is […]