The South African university student population has changed over the past 20 years to reflect wider society more closely than before. It’s no surprise therefore that more students need support than before. The homes they come from are also struggling. More...
Academic freedom is the right enjoyed by university teachers to teach, research and write in their areas of expertise without fear of retribution by institutional powers or political authorities. More...
As a longtime professor of communication, I am fascinated with the cognitive characteristics of artificial intelligence as they relate to human communication. Image processing, computer vision, speech recognition and pattern recognition are parts of the sophisticated processes in artificial intelligence communicating with humans. But at the superficial level, these comprise only part of the communication process. More...
Computer-driven adaptive learning has been around for decades; in its most basic form, it is simply the computer program branching the learning path based upon responses the student makes. Some learners may be best served by materials delivered in a different format -- for example, case studies rather than theoretical study. More...
The fourth industrial revolution is upon us! It is unlike any previous cultural change we have confronted. Sure, the previous revolutions moved us from rural to urban environments; shifted our dependence on animals to machines; and even connected us digitally to each other in ways we had never imagined. More...
The landscape of online higher education is changing with the growth of mega-universities and the advent of scores of MOOC-size at-scale degree programs from prestigious universities. More...
It is truly rare that an advancement comes along that changes every aspect of society; quantum computing is poised to do just that in the 2020s. More...
Since the publication of my book, Free-Range Learning in the Digital Age: The Emerging Revolution in College, Career, and Education, in mid-2018, and after a year of listening, learning and reflecting, I would like to explore and look at the future of learning and work with refreshed eyes and new understandings. I am writing not as a critic but as a friend and longtime observer of higher education, learners, learning and opportunity. More...
American postsecondary education has evolved through multiple stages since 1945. Each stage has added a new dimension to our understanding of the ways higher education can contribute to a fairer, stronger, healthier, more creative society. And notably, each new stage and the dimension it introduced has drawn criticism from some of the mainstream actors of the previous stage. More...
While UNESCO clearly stands against sexual harassment, the institution may need to pay attention to abuses where it has lent the credibility of its name. More...
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