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September 23, 2016

Study: Coding bootcamps yield high returns on job placement, diversity

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By Jarrett Carter, Education Dive

A new study authored by Course Report reveals surprising data about the economic and social benefits of the emerging for-profit training model. According to the study, more than 70% of bootcamp graduates report holding employment requiring use of the skills learned in the bootcamp, and more than 60% have received salary increases as a result of their completion. Women comprise more than 40% of the national bootcamp student profile, and African-Americans who complete coding bootcamps are the highest earners and most likely to be employed at a tech company.

http://www.educationdive.com/news/study-coding-bootcamps-yield-high-returns-on-job-placement-diversity/426349/

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U.S. E-learning Market to Exceed $48 Billion by 2020

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By Chelsea Legendre, MeriTalk

The e-learning market in the United States is forecast to grow by 15.64 percent by 2020. The “E-learning Markets in the US 2016-2020” report points to cloud-based solutions as a key trend over the next few years. This growth is due to “the introduction of education technology and online content into the curriculum,” said Jhansi Mary J, lead analyst at Technavio. “Cloud solutions have restructured the aspects of education such as content creation, content delivery, and accessibility, making it more productive, convenient, and effective.” New education technologies include 3-D printing, simulations, and Augmented Reality (AR). The trend is driven by both traditional and online schools, which is due in part to government involvement.

https://www.meritalk.com/articles/u-s-e-learning-market-to-exceed-48-billion-by-2020/

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A trio of short-term trends may also hold long-term promise

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BY STEPHEN NOONOO, eSchool News

Take a casual flip through this year’s trend-predicting Horizon Report, released today, and you’ll find plenty to get excited about. The end of the report is stuffed with tantalizing promise about how future learners will engage with robots, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and wearable tech (think data-collecting headbands and skill-tracking sensors) that could explode into classrooms in as little as four to five years. By contrast, the report’s short-term developments, online learning and makerspaces, have a distinct yesterday’s news vibe about them. But make no mistake, they still hold some of the biggest long-term promise in the report.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/09/14/making-coding-online-learning-real-trends-watch/
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September 22, 2016

How to Have a Distributed Meeting

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By Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed

My advice for running successful distributed meetings comes from what I have seen work in synchronous online learning. If you can get a synchronous online class session to run well – then you can also run a good distributed meeting. Note – my advice for distributed meetings has nothing to do with webinars. Webinars are almost bad because of issues of scale. There are too many people on most webinars to allow for meaningful conversation. Your model for good distributed meetings should not be webinars, but teaching.

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/how-have-distributed-meeting

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Silicon Valley online course to mint self-driving car engineers

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By Heather Somerville, Reuters

Silicon Valley is creating a crash course in self-driving car technology to address a shortage of engineers with help from a startup in a different field: online education. In about a year’s time, a Lincoln sedan will be driving itself from Mountain View to San Francisco, using software developed by 250 or so students enrolled at education start-up Udacity, if all goes according to plan. Udacity bought the Lincoln already equipped with the digital interface needed in autonomous vehicles; students will write the code. Udacity’s course, which costs $2,400 for three, 12-week terms, starts next month and was designed by company co-founder Sebastian Thrun, who launched Google’s driverless car program.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-udacity-autonomous-idUSKCN11J24G

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CLC adds online course to honors program

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By BRAINERD DISPATCH

Central Lakes College is offering its first online course through its honors program. The course, Intercultural Communication, will be followed next school year with another online honors course called Interpersonal Communication. “Online courses work best for a lot of students, including some in our technical programs, so we wanted to make sure these students had access to our honors program,” said Adam Marcotte, English instructor and honors program coordinator, in a news release. Previously, honors courses were only offered in face-to-face class settings.

http://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/4114855-clc-adds-online-course-honors-program

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September 21, 2016

What 6 higher ed CIOs wish they knew their first day on the job

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By Roger Riddell, Education Dive

IT leaders share their advice and words of wisdom for those aspiring to the roleThis feature is the second in a series focused exclusively on issues impacting higher ed IT administrators, running through the beginning of the annual Educause conference, Oct. 25-28. There are any number of things most people wish they had known their first day on a job. In our research for this series, we asked 6 higher ed CIOs to share their thoughts. This is what they had to say.

http://www.educationdive.com/news/what-6-higher-ed-cios-wish-they-knew-their-first-day-on-the-job/425624/

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Public Opinion on Higher Education

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by Public Agenda

Americans are increasingly uncertain about the necessity of college for success in the workforce, according to our recent survey, funded by The Kresge Foundation. For many years, when we asked the public the question, “Do you think that a college education is necessary for a person to be successful in today’s work world,” an increasing percentage of Americans said yes. That trend has shifted since the Great Recession. Now, just 42 percent of Americans say college is necessary for workforce success, a 13 percent drop from 2009. Fifty-seven percent of Americans say there are many ways to succeed in today’s world without a college degree, a 14 percent increase from 2009.

http://www.publicagenda.org/pages/public-opinion-higher-education-2016

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Research: Robots Give Chronically Ill Kids Valuable Social Ties with School

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By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal

A University of California Irvine research project may be the first of its kind to measure the impact and feasibility of the use of robots to bring homebound students into the classroom when they can’t be there physically. The use of “virtual inclusion” through telepresence has been used for nearly two decades. More recently, the idea is that chronically ill students use some kind of robotic device on campus that can be operated from home to allow him or her to participate in class, interact with fellow students and navigate through school.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/09/12/robots-give-chronically-ill-kids-valuable-social-ties-with-school.aspx

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September 20, 2016

New Report on Personalized Learning Recommends Use of ‘Learner Positioning Systems’

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By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal

Achieving personalized learning in schools takes good technology programs, suggested a new report from Digital Promise. But it also takes something else: “learner positioning systems.” These “LPSs” are akin to a GPS, except instead of telling people where they are geographically, they’d be used to help students and their teachers get a grounding in where the students are in their learning journey. That information might cover “a map of learning topics and progressions [and] a bank of programs and resources tied to the learning map.” The use of the LPS, stated “Making Learning Personal for All: The Growing Diversity in Today’s Classroom,” would help the student “self-identify” his or her strengths, preferences and challenges, set learning goals and find the appropriate resources to help meet those goals.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/09/13/new-report-on-personalized-learning-recommends-use-of-learner-positioning-systems.aspx

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Penn State Students Attend Class via Robot

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By Sri Ravipati, Campus Technology

A new technology pilot program at Pennsylvania State University enables students to attend and participate in class without ever stepping inside the classroom. The research institution is piloting the BeamPro Smart Presence System from Suitable Technologies, which allows students to be present through a robot that can be remotely operated via computer application. Users can steer the BeamPro robots inside or outside of the classroom – they can even command the robot to take an elevator to another floor or travel around campus.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/09/08/penn-state-students-attend-class-via-robot.aspx

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Chief Information Security Officers: Moving Away from IT

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By David Raths, Campus Technology

The CISO role in higher education is evolving, putting more emphasis on enterprise risk management and policy development. As data breaches and cybercrime gain a higher profile in higher education, the role of the chief information security officer is changing — and broadening beyond IT. The increasing sense of urgency is bringing people from different backgrounds to the CISO post, and is raising questions about budgets and reporting structures as well. “Higher education is starting to recognize that cyber risk is the same as other types of business risk,” said Brian Kelly, CISO at Quinnipiac University (CT). “It is the same type of consideration as someone falling down a staircase. We are closer to those cabinet-level conversations around risk. It has gone beyond being an IT problem.”

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/09/08/chief-information-security-officers-moving-away-from-it.aspx

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September 19, 2016

Quality Matters Intros New Teaching Online Certificate

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By Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

Online educators have a new way to document their skills in online teaching. Quality Matters (QM), a nonprofit organization providing quality standards, professional development, course/program review and more, has added a new Teaching Online Certificate (TOC) to its lineup of certifications for quality assurance in online learning. “QM has recognized from its beginning that quality course design is a necessary, but not sufficient, component for a high quality student experience. Quality teaching matters, too,” said Deb Adair, QM’s executive director, in a press release. “Our new TOC follows the QM tradition of building on well-researched criteria and identifying practical competencies in alignment with those criteria. It represents our first foray into Quality Matters for Teaching.”

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/09/13/quality-matters-intros-new-teaching-online-certificate.aspx

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Penn State Turns to 3D Printing, Online Learning to Teach Students About the Brain

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By Michael Hart, Campus Technology

A Pennsylvania State University research project is exploring the use of 3D printing and interactive technology to teach middle school students about the human brain. Researchers in the Brain3M project, funded by the Penn State Social Science Research Institute, have come up with a tailored online learning platform that allows students to go through a series of virtual 3D structure models and descriptions of the brain along with photos and diagrams that illustrate the complex concepts concerning how the human brain works.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/09/13/3d-printing-online-learning-used-to-teach-students-about-the-brain.aspx

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Essentials of Digital Accessibility

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By Harriette Spiegel, Campus Technology

Digital accessibility is a hot topic in higher education these days, and training faculty in creating accessible digital materials is on the mind of every instructional designer or educational technology team. The question of how to accomplish this training is a topic in itself, but this article outlines some of the most common issues that confront faculty when making their course content accessible. These issues are Headings, Alt Text, Meaningful Hyperlinks and Tables.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/09/13/essentials-of-digital-accessibility.aspx

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UC San Francisco Outsourcing IT Ops to India

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By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

IT people are sounding sick from the announcement that the University of California San Francisco intends to outsource many of its technology functions to an India-based service provider. Reporting by Computerworld found that layoffs for some 17 percent of the institution’s 565-employee IT staff will hit next February — after those same workers have trained Indian replacements employed by HCL Technologies. The university is focused entirely on health areas, with four schools: dentistry, nursing, medicine and pharmacy. According to UCSF’s website, there are currently 3,114 students enrolled in degree programs, 1,479 residents and 1,127 post-doctoral scholars. However, that small student body belies the size of the overall institution, which is currently the second largest employer in the city. UCSF’s paid workforce comprises 22,000 staff and nearly 2,800 faculty.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/09/09/uc-san-francisco-outsourcing-it-ops-to-india.aspx

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September 18, 2016

Indiana University seeing fast growth in online courses

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by WISH-TV

Enrollment in Indiana University online courses and programs has continued its rapid growth this year. The university said some 27,000 IU students and one in every four students on the seven campuses administrated by the university, are taking at least one online course this fall. Faculty on all IU campuses have collaborated to develop courses and new online degree programs.

http://wishtv.com/2016/09/12/indiana-university-seeing-fast-growth-in-online-courses/

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Do You Have What It Takes To Tackle College Courses Online?

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By Rhiannon Winner, ULoop

Online college courses are appealing to many students, whether it’s because they’re cheaper than in-person classes or because they’re flexible enough to be molded to your schedule. Whatever sparked your interest in them, it’s best to be honest with yourself and see if you’re right for online learning before diving in. Are you organized? Organization is a key part of online learning. No professor will be around to hand out copies of the syllabus or remind you to store certain papers in the right folder. You’ll need to meticulously keep track of assignment due dates and make sure you’re pacing yourself so that you finish on time. If you’ve always been the kind of student with a color-coded note system and dozens of binders, you’d do well to keep that up when taking online courses.

http://www.uloop.com/news/view.php/212917/Do-You-Have-What-It-Takes-To-Tackle-College-Courses-Online

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Digital Tips for Cultural Responsive Activities

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by Nancy Wozniak, University of Alaksa Anchorage

Culturally-responsive design strategies allow students to realize they are important as participants in the class community and respected as unique individuals. The University of Alaska Anchorage includes culturally-mediated design as a major development strategy for their Robust Online Learning Program (Title III Grant) focused on General Education Requirement (GER) online courses. The goal is to create online environments that nuture and support cultural exchange and community. One thing to remember, when designing culturally responsive activities, is that students learn best, collaboratively. They learn effectively by discussing their ideas with one another and by participating in peer-to-peer learning activities and reviews. Here are 5 digital tips for infusing cultural responsiveness in your course.

https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/institutional-effectiveness/departments/academic-innovations-elearning/robust-online-learning/spotlights/digital-tips.cshtml

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September 17, 2016

For higher ed CIOs navigating tight budgets, relationships key

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by Roger Riddell, Naomi Eide; Education Dive

Of course for IT leadership on campus, it also helps to foster good relationships with the other vice presidents and provosts, as well as the campus president. “I actually report to the president, which is a real advantage because I have the president’s ear,” said Melissa Woo, vice president for information technology and CIO at Stony Brook University. “But the other VPs have to know what IT’s value is, because I think most people think IT is just keeping things running.” “It’s network that nobody notices until it’s gone,” Woo said. “It’s a lot of services that nobody really thinks about until they’re down, and I think having that relationship with the other VPs means they can actually see us as a strategic partner.”

http://www.ciodive.com/news/for-higher-ed-cios-navigating-tight-budgets-relationships-key/425875/

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5 reasons getting your degree online makes sense

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By Asian Correspondent

Online learning has changed the higher education landscape in recent years. Not only are more students using digital resources to research and choose study options, increasing numbers are turning to online learning to gain degrees from prestigious universities around the world. Most universities and colleges now offer a range of online and hybrid degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, about 2 million undergraduate students and 600,000 postgraduate students were studying fully online in 2014 and this figure continues to grow. In fact, one third of students told one survey that they wouldn’t consider an equivalent on-campus program even if it were easily available.

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/09/5-reasons-getting-degree-online-makes-sense/

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