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Unique biweekly insights and news review from Ray Schroeder, Senior Fellow at UPCEA.
A Dozen Years of Decline
For 150 years dating back to the 1800s, college enrollment in the U.S. experienced annual growth in enrollments with only a handful of short-term drops during wars and other major societal events. That record of steady increases was disrupted a dozen years ago, by the recession of 2007 to 2009 and has never recovered. Of course, the…
Deconstructing ChatGPT on the Future of Continuing Education
The future has arrived in continuing education, however many have yet to realize the arrival. Released on November 30, ChatGPT and GPT-3.5 were publicly unveiled by OpenAI – a leader in generative artificial intelligence. I wondered what this release might mean for the future of continuing higher education. Of course, nothing had yet been written about the…
Time to Consider Your Social Media Options
As higher ed professionals, this is a good time to re-think our social platforms. As of this writing, the future of Twitter is unclear. Elon Musk has taken over the helm with policies and practices that are prompting massive layoffs and resignations that have threatened the regular operation of the social media tool. Some experts…
Universities Looking Beyond the Traditional For-Credit Semester Experiences
A survey shows that nearly half of said they chose their college on the basis of potential career prospects, only 11% felt prepared to enter the workforce. Salesforce’s third annual Connected Student Report, released last month, identifies some serious shortcomings perceived by college and university students. While nearly half of the 1,300 students surveyed said they chose…
AI Transforming Education
Artificial Intelligence has begun impacting education, but the best is yet to come! The era of AI management of big data is upon us. Even in the slow-moving field of education, big data is making a difference. Identifying trends that never before had been uncovered and using predictive analytics to generate models of the future…
Higher Ed Curricula – the Short Game
It is time that we prepare for adding a more relevant, more responsive, student-centered, technology-delivered curriculum. Rick Seltzer reports in Higher Ed Dive that a recent Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded study of 18-to-30-year-olds without a college degree, found: “Respondents prioritized their own emotional, mental and financial health more frequently than a college education.…
Ray Schroeder is Professor Emeritus, Associate Vice Chancellor for Online Learning at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) and Senior Fellow at UPCEA. Each year, Ray publishes and presents nationally on emerging topics in online and technology-enhanced learning. Ray’s social media publications daily reach more than 12,000 professionals. He is the inaugural recipient of the A. Frank Mayadas Online Leadership Award, recipient of the University of Illinois Distinguished Service Award, the United States Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame Award, and the American Journal of Distance Education/University of Wisconsin Wedemeyer Excellence in Distance Education Award 2016.