Higher education is on the cusp of major changes. Enrollments are on the decline—both online and on campus—and the trend is expected to accelerate.[1] Graduates are laboring under substantial college loan debts totaling more than $1.5 trillion. More...
31 mars 2019
Five Key Trends for Professional and Continuing Education Leaders in the Next Five Years
Troubling Trends Towards Artificial Intelligence Governance
This is an age of artificial intelligence (AI) driven automation and autonomous machines. The increasing ubiquity and rapidly expanding potential of self-improving, self-replicating, autonomous intelligent machines has spurred a massive automation driven transformation of human ecosystems in cyberspace, geospace and space (CGS). More...
Active-Learning Classrooms, Seven Tips for Higher Education
Universities are investing heavily to transform lecture-style classrooms into active-learning environments in order to boost student engagement and improve retention and recruitment rates. More...
How to Decide What Classes to Take Online and When
An increasing number of students are preferring online learning over the traditional classroom method, according to Jordan Friedman of U.S. News. More...
LinkedIn: 94% of employees say they would stay at a company longer for this reason—and it’s not a raise
In 2018, workers quit at the highest rates since 2001, and experts predict that the trend will continue into 2019. According to the most recent Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), over 3.5 million Americans quit their jobs every month, about 2.3 percent of the labor force. More...
Might AI Spell The Death Of Search?
Based on these types of frustrations it’s understandable that millennials, now comprising more than 35 percent of the workforce, have begun to push back on the way we search. More...
With AI at Hand, Don’t Stop Learning!
Whatever we call it, the new jobs it creates will require new skills and new learning. Someone will have to program the billions of devices of the Internet of Things. Someone will have to re-program them when bugs are found. Someone else will have to install and configure them. More...
Americans don’t realize state funding for higher ed is falling, new poll finds
Most Americans believe state spending for public universities and colleges has, in fact, increased or at least held steady over the last 10 years, according to a new survey by American Public Media. They’re wrong. More...
Faculty Development Matters
To build a productive culture of teaching and learning within an institution is to maximize the ability of faculty to learn and students to learn. This interaction lies at the heart of institutions of higher education. More...
Over 2 million people have taken LinkedIn’s most popular online course—here’s the skill they’re learning
Gone are the days where workers could comfortably plan to stay in one job, or industry, for their entire career. Research from the World Economic Forum shows that one million U.S. jobs are expected to disappear by 2026 and one-third of U.S.workers could be jobless by 2030 — all due to automation. In January, LinkedIn analyzed hundreds of thousands of job postings in order to determine which skills companies need most in 2019. More...
