Techno-News Blog. Universities and colleges are pivotal to the future of our societies. But, given impressive and ongoing advances in technology and artificial intelligence, it is hard to see how they can continue playing this role without reinventing themselves over the next two decades. More...
Consider Taking Online Courses as an On-Campus Student
Techno-News Blog. Many on-campus college students take at least one fully online class at some point during their education. More...
State grant funding available to Penn State students taking online courses
Techno-News Blog. Penn State students who enroll in online courses will be eligible for the Pennsylvania State Grant Program next year after lawmakers made permanent a pilot need-based funding program that was set to expire. State lawmakers approved the pilot program for distance learners starting in 2013-14. More...
Higher ed with remote reach
Techno-News Blog. Most of the 2 million students participating in dual enrollment programs attend classes at their high schools or on higher ed campuses. Colleges in at least 35 states, however, offer students another option—online classes, according to research by the Education Commission of the States. Access is a main aim. More...
Online predators, cyberbullies addressed at InfraGard meeting
Techno-News Blog. In the digital age, adults need to always be on guard to protect themselves and their children from online predators and cyberbullies. More...
Open Education~I
Techno-News Blog. Open licences are the outcome of an effort to protect the authors’ rights in an environment where the content (particularly when digitised) can easily be copied and shared without permission. Open licences seek to ensure that copying and sharing should happen within a structured legal framework that is more flexible than the automatic all-rights-reserved status of copyright. More...
3 Reasons Millennials Might Choose Online Learning Over A Traditional Degree
Techno-News Blog. One way that millennials are finding success is by expanding their skill set via online learning. I don’t mean Youtube, though that can be a starting point to learn the basics of plenty of topics. By online learning, I mean formal learning platforms like Skillshare. More...
More students are taking on crippling debt they can’t repay—it’s time for higher education to share the risks
Techno-News Blog. In a new Brookings paper that uses administrative data to look at “large-balance borrowers,” New York University’s Constantine Yannelis and I find that the share of students graduating with more than $50,000 in student debt has more than tripled since 2000, increasing from 5 percent of borrowers in 2000 to 17 percent of student borrowers in 2014. More...
Cost to Connect Rural America: $19 Billion or Less
Techno-News Blog. A group of private and public organizations said that, for less than $20 billion, every unserved rural school, library, health provider and community college in the country that doesn’t already have high-capacity broadband could get it and share it out. More...
With AI taking away many jobs, reskilling has become critical: Coursera founder
Techno-News Blog. AI is the new electricity and it has made significant advances to transform industries. There’s still a lot of work humans can do in the foreseeable future and we don’t seem to find enough people in some areas. More...