By Laura Ascione. A new report predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) in the U.S. education sector will grow 47.5 percent through 2021.
The report, Artificial Intelligence Market in the U.S. Education Sector 2017-2021, is based on in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. More...
29 avril 2017
Brace yourselves: AI is set to explode in higher ed in the next 4 years
Online and digital education: Enhancing access to hgher education in the 21st century
Submitted by Tim Goral. The 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act is often considered the landmark in the democratization of higher education, assuring postsecondary access to more than the privileged few and ensuring, simultaneously, the education of scholars and the training of a highly skilled workforce. Over 150 years later we need to re-envision the implementation of the concepts put forward through the grand purpose of that step and the series of Acts that followed (Hatch Act of 1887, Morrill Act of 1890, Smith-Lever Act of 1914) in light of today’s technology and needs. More...
How to stop New Jersey's brain drain
Submitted by Tim Goral. For decades, New Jersey has been one of the highest exporters of college students. Students go to college in other states for lots of reasons. One reason is that New Jersey is a small state and many choices are located within close proximity to its borders -- in Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and Delaware. More...
Time for 4-year degrees from COC
Submitted by Tim Goral. “I’m so glad College of the Canyons is offering bachelor’s degrees. It’s about time!”
That refrain – and hundreds of variations like it – are uttered to me frequently. It happens just about everywhere throughout the Santa Clarita Valley, whether I’m at a fundraising event or standing in line at the supermarket. More...
ISU employees get anti-community college emails
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. An email soliciting financial support for the IdaHope political action committee opposing efforts to turn Eastern Idaho Technical College into a community college was sent to at least some Idaho State University email addresses this week. More...
The Cuomo college fiasco
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Cuomo presides over a state with a rich diversity of educational institutions. But he also presides over a state, like all states, where many students don’t complete college and where many are unprepared for the information economy. More...
College presidents ask for 'stability, predictability'
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. As much as universities would like more money from the state, at this point what they want most is just to see a budget, the presidents of Illinois State and Eastern Illinois universities said in testimony before a House committee Thursday. More...
Starting university classes at 11am or later would improve learning
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. If universities want to encourage better learning, a new study indicates they could do well to restructure their classroom timetables. More...
