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• How e-learning can propel mid-career professionals forward - Debleena Majumdar, ET Online cms (45)iStock
  Mid-career is often referred to as the period of time when one has already spent the initial few years in building one’s early career and is then trying to look at more long-term growth opportunities. Dr. Prem Das Maheshwari, Business Director - South Asia, D2L shares, “With generative AI redefining white-collar work, individuals are not just […]
• Online educational tool aims to simplify geology - Ashley Fish-Robertson, CIM
  Visible Geology includes three tools aimed at helping users understand various geological concepts that may be difficult to envision through traditional teaching. A report titled “2023 Canadian Mineral Exploration HR Outlook,” from the Mining Industry Human Resources Council and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, found that the number of undergraduate students enrolled in […]
• Massachusetts draws in nontraditional learners with free college program - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey Tuesday credited the state’s nascent free community college program for nontraditional students with nearly doubling enrollment among those eligible. MassReconnect, launched last August, covers the cost of community college for state residents 25 and older who don’t have a degree. In the 2023-24 academic year, Massachusetts’s 15 community colleges enrolled 8,411 […]
• Americans More Confident in Two-Year Schools - STEPHANIE MARKEN, Gallup
  About half of Americans (48%) say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in community colleges. Confidence in community colleges is higher than confidence in four-year colleges and universities, as one-third of Americans report high levels of confidence in four-year institutions. Results for this study conducted in partnership with Lumina Foundation are […]
• The college-to-corporate pipeline is facing extinction. Here’s why - Steven Schwartz, Fast Company
  A third of Gen Z is skipping college before joining the workforce—and opportunities in the internet economy are a major reason why. It’s an inflection point that decades of corporate dread have been building toward. As the first generation to be raised by the internet, Gen Z didn’t spend our childhoods outside—we spent them online. […]
• Wisconsin’s public university leaders will get a 15% bonus — if they meet retention goals - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  Most chancellors of Wisconsin’s state universities will receive annual bonuses of up to 15% of their base salaries if their institutions meet key metrics tied to strategic goals, the state’s board of regents voted Monday. For fiscal 2025, the added compensation, which the system dubs “compensation-at-risk,” will be tied to first-to-second year retention rates for […]
• Budget 2024 must focus on job-oriented training programmes in higher education to boost employability - Sumit Shukla, Education Times (India)
  The current scenario paints a clear picture: the allocation for higher education dipped slightly in the interim budget, while Skill India Mission 4.0, a dedicated programme for skilling youth, deserves a higher allocation. This imbalance highlights a disconnect – we are training youth, but not necessarily aligning those skills with industry needs.  The National Education […]
• Getting students workplace-ready - Times Higher Education
  The leap from higher education to employment has always been a daunting one, but in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), the post-Covid remote-working revolution and the pressing danger of climate change, the vision of the future has never been murkier. Today’s students need their universities’ guidance through the fog. Here’s how to teach them […]
• Where to next with AI in higher education? - University of Queensland
  University of Queensland researchers are playing a key role in the education sector’s response to the new learning environment. Associate Professor Jason Lodge from UQ’s School of Education is developing a systematic approach to guide educators on how they can adapt to generative AI. “Fundamental changes are underway in the education sector and while the […]
• Louisiana Wants the Ten Commandments in College Classrooms, Too - Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed
  Higher education has mostly been spared from state efforts to infuse public schools with religious teachings, but Louisiana’s law includes all 32 public colleges, universities and trade schools in the state—even as most of the rhetoric surrounding the bill seems to focus on young children and how and what they should be taught about morals […]
• Project 2025 Would Radically Overhaul Higher Ed. Here’s How. - Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed
  The 44-page Education Department chapter was authored by Lindsey Burke, director of Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, and credits several former Trump officials as contributors. Its proposals are bold and sweeping: It calls for dismantling the agency and putting an end to loan forgiveness. It details plans to overhaul the accreditation system and roll back […]
• Helping boards manage geopolitical risk with Jon Huntsman Jr. - Inside the Boardroom, McKinsey
  In a conversation with the board director and former diplomat, two McKinsey experts offer advice on how boards can guide their organizations through volatile times. Assisting management in navigating today’s geopolitical complexity has become one of boards’ most important and difficult tasks. In this episode of the Inside the Strategy Room podcast, Ziad Haider, Celia […]
• The Synthetic Professor - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  The role of the college professor has evolved over the centuries, but several core responsibilities have remained central to the position for many years. The four-part mission of tenure-track faculty at many colleges and universities continues to include teaching, advising, research and service. Emphases among these areas vary with the individual and institution. Now generative […]
• Revolutionizing online education: Chief methodology officer and data science expert shares insight on AI, neural networks, and edtech innovations - Ella Hopkins, Business Insider Africa
  Ilnar Shafigullin is an expert in online education and data science, a teacher with more than 10 years of experience, and the author of dozens of scientific papers. He serves as the Director of Methodology at GeekBrains, a leading EdTech company in the CIS, renowned for helping millions of students acquire IT skills. In this […]
• A Guide for Creating an Empathetic Learning Environment - Nancy A. Bellucci, Faculty Focus
  Empathy, in course development, refers to an educator’s ability to understand the problems, needs, and desires a group of learners faces through research and inquisition. An inclusive learning environment is one where all students feel academically and intellectually supported, feel a sense of belonging and respect, and do not feel closed off from the rest […]
• Penn State offering stackable credentials through online learning - Penn State
  Penn State is offering for the first time stackable credentials that can be used to earn master’s degrees in engineering, data analytics, information science, artificial intelligence, human resources and psychology. The stackable credentials at Penn State are being offered through 27 graduate-level certificates that can be completed online, through Penn State World Campus. To earn […]
• Some Community Colleges See Level Funding Despite Lean State Budgets - Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed
  Despite doom-and-gloom news about lean state budgets and dwindling federal pandemic-relief funds, some community colleges have successfully staved off cuts this budget cycle, to the great relief of campus leaders and advocates. They say these spells of good fortune show growing support for their institutions among state lawmakers. New Jersey state legislators reversed course late […]
• With AI, we need both competition and safety - Tom Wheeler and Blair Levin, Brookings
  Regulatory oversight of AI must encourage collaboration on AI safety without enabling anticompetitive alliances. Regulation must close the gaps in voluntary commitments with an AI safety model that includes a supervised process to develop standards, a market that rewards firms who exceed standards, and ongoing oversight of compliance activities.https://www.brookings.edu/articles/with-ai-we-need-both-competition-and-safety/
• Illinois Central College to cut majority of course term lengths in half - Liz Lape, 25 News Peoria
  “[It] lets students customize to their learning style and it really helps them think through where they might need a little extra time on task,” Quirk-Bailey said. Swaim said they reviewed studies done at colleges across the country, as well as took student surveys and collected data from ICC, finding that shorter course terms increased […]
• Role and significance of artificial intelligence in diverse fields - the Statesman
  The contemporary era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has transformed knowledge paradigm and learning trajectory so profoundly that it has become imperative for students of management, commerce, humanities, and liberal arts to garner adequate knowledge and proficiency of such emerging technologies in order to have a competitive edge in their professional pursuits. Dynamic changes in AI […]