As the U.S. workforce ages, baby boomers retire, and birth rates decline, the United States is facing an estimated shortfall of 8 million workers between now and 2027. At the same time, the U.S. economy is becoming ever more knowledge-based. More...
31 mars 2019
Google partners with NASA and CERN to create massive online exhibit honoring science
Google’s Arts & Culture division, the team behind the viral art-matching selfie trend from last year, has partnered with museums from around the world to create a collection of videos and images dedicated to honoring science and human discovery. More...
Credentials for the Future: Mapping the Potential for Immigrant-Origin Adults in the United States
The Growing Profile of Non-Degree Credentials: Diving Deeper into ‘Education Credentials Come of Age’
The world of credentialing is changing fast. Employer needs have evolved in concert with improving hiring support technologies. More...
A Visit from the Risk Management Office: Identifying the most important risks facing online learning programs
In our field, we have a wide array of risks — technological infrastructure within and outside the university, including bandwidth, physical interruptions due to hurricane, tornado, earthquake or related natural disasters; policy and regulatory at the state and federal levels; accessibility shortcomings; global malware challenges; online, in-class verbal sexist, gender-preference, racist and analogous abuse; academic integrity issues; competitive risks in meeting game-changing new models of degree and certificate offerings; and maintaining our reputation as leaders in the field. More...
This new AI tool ages faces in videos with creepy accuracy
A new machine learning paper shows how AI can take footage of someone and duplicate the video with the subject looking an age the researchers specify. More...
GOOGLE LAUNCHES AI PLATFORM THAT LOOKS REMARKABLY LIKE A RASPBERRY PI
Google has promised us new hardware products for machine learning at the edge, and now it’s finally out. The thing you’re going to take away from this is that Google built a Raspberry Pi with machine learning. More...
The high cost of college textbooks, explained
Textbook publishers, for their part, have begun acknowledging that textbooks and other course materials have become so expensive that some students simply can’t afford them, even if it means their grades will suffer as a result. More...
What Do Faculty Think of Open Educational Resources?
Because so many of their students struggle with the cost of course materials, more professors are opting to use free open educational resources (OER) in their courses, rather than expensive traditional textbooks. More...
The rise of voice search
According to Gartner, 50% of search will shift to voice search by 2020. And in the cases of personal assistants, if your business doesn’t come in first, it comes in last. More...
Online Education: From Good To Better To Best?
There are a growing number of examples where students prefer online over traditional classroom education. For a while now, online education has been a good option for students who – for various reasons – can’t access on-the-ground education. More...
