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December 31, 2018

Indians Are The Top Subscribers For Machine Learning Programmes On Coursera

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Abhijeet Katte, Analytics India Magazine

Coursera recently shared an interesting insight: Indians constituted the highest number of subscribers, especially for courses related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. In fact, Coursera announced that India stands as the second largest and fastest growing market for Coursera, with over 3.7 million learners. This insight, along with the rising number of New Tech-related jobs in India underlines the learning hunger among Indians. The highest subscribers went to the courses around AI and Python.

https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/indians-are-the-top-subscribers-for-machine-learning-programmes-on-coursera/

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With the expansion of e-learning platforms, lucrative career options are aplenty

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Sarvesh Agrawal, the Hindu

The content in e-learning is a crucial aspect of learning, thus, the roles that help develop that content are equally important. The four roles that are involved in content development are subject-matter expert (SME), instructional designer (ID), storyboard artist (SBA), and visual content developer (VCD). To help you understand better, let us suppose developing the content for e-learning is like making a movie. So, the SME would be the scriptwriter, the ID would be the director, the SBA would be the cinematographer, and the VCD would be the final movie editor.

https://www.thehindu.com/education/crafting-content-for-virtual-learning/article25806547.ece

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Education must meet the needs of a flexible, versatile workforce

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BY ANNE TRUMBORE, the Hill

College costs too much. In both time and money, a four-year residential degree has rapidly become unaffordable for the vast majority of students, just as the bachelor’s degree has become a requirement for entry-level jobs. The price of admission to the workforce is unacceptably high for the number of skilled workers our economy demands. In Washington, D.C., there is bipartisan understanding that the $1.5 trillion student loan debt is at dangerous levels as bipartisan support for providing alternative educational on-ramps to skilled jobs continues to rise.

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/422338-education-must-meet-the-needs-of-a-flexible-workforce

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December 30, 2018

Commentary: Online students impact higher ed enrollment

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Angie Besendorfer, St. Louis Business Journal

In today’s tech-driven society, it’s imperative to not overlook the importance of online universities and programs. Most traditional universities now offer fully online degrees, and fully online universities are also gaining traction with students. In Missouri, out of the nearly 450,000 enrolled college students, nearly 55,000 — or 12.2 percent — are exclusively enrolled in online courses, and that number continues to grow. Online programs are particularly beneficial for non-traditional students looking to advance or change their careers, while working full time and raising families. It can be challenging to fit school into a busy schedule, but online programs offer the flexibility — and often lower tuition cost — to make earning an undergraduate or advanced degree a reality. Students who do not have access to a traditional university — whether they live in rural areas, have limited mobility or face transportation issues — also can be served by online education.

https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2018/12/21/commentary-online-students-impact-higher-ed.html

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What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

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Chris Berdik, Hechinger Report

The project typifies the mix of personalized and social learning that’s been a mainstay for 25 years at King, a founding member of a school network called EL Education. It sets these schools apart from a more recent wave of personalized learning, which is often dominated by technology and dogged by criticism that it isolates students from each other and from learning’s larger purpose. “We’re at a very important moment, because personalized learning is everywhere right now, and it’s been taken up by big funders, so everybody wants to say they’re doing it,” said Ron Berger, EL’s chief academic officer. “But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.” EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other. The model won’t work everywhere, But it’s now used in about 150 schools in more than 30 states, and the nonprofit’s leaders have recently stepped up efforts to spread their approach.

https://hechingerreport.org/what-if-personalized-learning-was-less-about-me-and-more-about-us/

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REPORT EXPLORES MOBILE LEARNING HABITS OF INDIA’S NEXT 500 MILLION USERS

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By Henry Kronk, eLearning Inside

In certain areas, however, investors and startups have their attention fixed on another market: new users. Gray Matters Capital (GMC), a VC fund and accelerator based in Atlanta that focuses on the Indian market, has a new report out this month focusing on the next half billion learners that are expected to come online in the next few years and their mobile learning habits. The costs of mobile data, internet connection, and devices around the world are dropping. Meanwhile, average earnings in many communities around the world are rising. Within a short period of time, many people and households that currently do not have access to or cannot afford the technology necessary to participate in online learning will be able to do so.

https://news.elearninginside.com/gmc-report-india-next-500-million-mobile-learning/

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December 29, 2018

DeVos Outlines ‘Rethinking’ of Higher Education

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Andrew Kreighbaum, Inside Higher Ed

Secretary and Education Department officials today outline plans for looming accreditation reform negotiation, describing focus on credit transfer and credential inflation. The department described its priorities in two white papers released Wednesday — on rethinking higher ed generally and on accreditation reform. Recommendations in the brief papers are broad and don’t come with specific policy proposals attached. Department officials said some of the identified issues could be addressed through regulations or changes to current law. Others are a matter of changing the department’s current practices, Diane Auer Jones, principal deputy under secretary of education, said in an interview this week.  “We want to put on the table what we think the challenge is,” she said. “But we are doing negotiated rule making. It isn’t up to us to solve every problem. We would love for people to come to the table with some of their own ideas on how to solve these problems.” Auer Jones said the department wants to give accreditors the ability to craft standards that match the institutions they accredit. It makes little sense, she said, to apply the same outcomes standards to Johns Hopkins University and a nearby community college.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/20/department-focus-credit-transfer-credential-inflation-rule-making-session

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Machine Learning and Mobile Technology: Amalgamation for the Future

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by Ashish Parmar, Analytics Insight

Machine learning is the technology of the future; it is just the beginning of its implementation in today’s world. It is a part of artificial intelligence that has grown substantially for its usage in diverse fields and is proving worthy every day with new utilizations in daily life. Machine learning is estimated to have a market share of $153 Billion, which is quite big a number for a something that is still an emerging technology. What makes machine learning such an important technology is the ease of its implementation in various fields like Health, Automobile, Smartphones, Food, etc. Almost anything you can think of can be supervised by machine learning. Furthermore, it is not dependent on any platform as it can be implemented for any device such as Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, and Smartphone and is executable on various Computer Languages such as Java, Python, big data etc. ML as of now has not established any boundaries or parameters for its usage in any particular field, it is very flexible to execute and is customizable for the desired results.

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/machine-learning-and-mobile-technology-amalgamation-for-the-future/

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U.S. schools are getting rid of snow days — with Google’s help

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Aarthi Swaminathan and Adriana Belmonte,  Yahoo Finance

When most people were in school, snow days meant that you essentially received a surprise holiday from mother nature. These days, schools are moving to replace snow days and other extreme weather off days with online learning — and they’re using Google to do it. During inclement weather, all students at Anderson School District 5 in South Carolina now receive assignments electronically through their Google Chromebook, which will not require internet service. The Chromebooks are provided to students by the district at no cost.  The district’s first “eLearning Day” was on Oct. 11, when schools were closed because of Hurricane Michael.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-s-schools-getting-rid-snow-days-googles-help-183318455.html

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December 28, 2018

GOOGLE’S AI GURU WANTS COMPUTERS TO THINK MORE LIKE BRAINS

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Tom Simonite, Wired

The brain is solving a very different problem from most of our neural nets. You’ve got roughly 100 trillion synapses. Artificial neural networks are typically at least 10,000 times smaller in terms of the number of weights they have. The brain is using lots and lots of synapses to learn as much as it can from just a few episodes. Deep learning is good at learning using many fewer connections between neurons, when it has many episodes or examples to learn from. I think the brain isn’t concerned with squeezing a lot of knowledge into a few connections, it’s concerned with extracting knowledge quickly using lots of connections.

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-guru-computers-think-more-like-brains/

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14 Predictions About The Future Of AI And VR

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Forbes Technology Council

These days, staying up to date on cutting-edge technologies is critical to company relevancy. For example, recent advances in artificial intelligence and virtual reality have made major waves in the way some businesses operate. The company that knows about new tech earlier has a better chance of staying ahead of the curve and its competitors. As groundbreaking advances are made in the realms of AI and VR, many are speculating on how these technologies will reshape both everyday living and the way businesses operate. We asked 14 members of Forbes Technology Council to highlight the ways they foresee AI and VR technologies changing the world.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/12/11/14-predictions-about-the-future-of-ai-and-vr/#647347936466

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The AI boom is happening all over the world, and it’s accelerating quickly

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By Nick Statt, the Verge

The second AI Index report finds that commercial and research work in AI, as well as funding, is exploding pretty much everywhere on the planet. There’s an especially high concentration in Europe and Asia, with China, Japan, and South Korea leading Eastern countries in AI research paper publication, university enrollment, and patent applications. In fact, Europe is the largest publisher of AI papers, with 28 percent of all AI-related publications last year. China is close behind with 25 percent, while North America is responsible for 17 percent.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18136929/artificial-intelligence-ai-index-report-2018-machine-learning-global-progress-research

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December 27, 2018

US intelligence community says quantum computing and AI pose an ’emerging threat’ to national security

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Zack Whittaker, Tech Crunch

It’s not often you can put nuclear weapons, terrorism and climate change on the same list as quantum computing, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, but the U.S. government believes all pose an “emerging threat” to its national security. Several key agencies in the U.S. intelligence community were asked what they saw as long-term threats faced by the country in the next decade and beyond, and the future of “dual-use technologies” took center stage.  Agnostic technologies like encryption, autonomous and unmanned systems, AI and quantum computing rank at the top of the agencies’ “worry list” for fears that they could be used to cause harm, rather than advance society.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/13/us-intelligence-quantum-computing-artificial-intelligence-national-security-threat/

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What Does a Future Ready College Student Look Like?

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Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

The effort to ensure that students are “future ready” has gained momentum in recent years as more and more stakeholders have recognized the importance of digital learning tools to ensuring the success of students. And while the effort has largely focused on elementary and secondary education, that does not mean that college students are off the hook. Rather, the same principles that benefit younger students will help college students make the most of their higher education experience. In fact, since one of the main aspects of the future ready movement is ensuring that students are prepared for college and work, the need for college students to have these skills developed is all the more acute. One principle from the future ready movement that can benefit college students is the idea of personalized learning. College students are old enough to take learning into their own hands and ensure that they are maximizing their opportunities.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/what-does-a-future-ready-college-student-look-like/

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More Than a Title: Lead from Where You Are

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Shana Campbell, EDUCAUSE Review

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) identifies skills needed to lead from the middle. Influence, communication, and thinking and acting systematically are three of these qualities that can be cultivated by anyone within an organization, no matter their title or position within the hierarchy. Influence as outlined by CCL encompasses cooperation and collaboration to accomplish a shared goal. At the core of influence is the ability to connect with people—simply put, relationships. Building on the relational aspect is the ability to be reliable in addition to delivering results. These characteristics can best be summed up as “taking action.” So, foundationally, influence is the ability to connect with others, take action, and achieve shared outcomes. In his book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You, leadership expert John Maxell states, “The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The great the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.”

https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2018/12/more-than-a-title-lead-from-where-you-are

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December 26, 2018

EdTechs and Instructional Designers—What’s the Difference?

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Pat Reid, EDUCAUSE Review

In a recent conversation with an assistant vice president (AVP) who manages both educational technologists (edtechs) and instructional designers (IDs), the AVP expressed confusion over the difference between the two roles. In higher education, both roles typically report to the IT department. The confusion, then, should not be surprising. Neither role falls under traditional IT programming, systems analysis, or security roles, and, while the two roles revolve around computer systems and programs, their work is very different from traditional IT tasks. To exacerbate the situation, many IDs and edtechs have experience and skills in both roles, and institutions sometimes post a position for either an ID or an edtech when they’re actually seeking a person for the role they didn’t post.1  It isn’t just IT folks who are confused. A recent Google search for “degree in instructional design” resulted in degrees in “instructional design,” “learning technologies,” and “instructional design and technology.” As these results illustrate, even institutions marketing the degrees see a strong connection between the edtech and ID professions.

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/12/edtechs-and-instructional-designers-whats-the-difference

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Strategic IT: What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There

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John O’Brien, EDUCAUSE Review

When it comes to broad, demonstrable acceptance of information technology as a strategic asset, there are—as we say in higher education—”pockets of excellence,” especially colleges and universities that have taken on major digital transformation initiatives with vision from the top and buy-in throughout the organization. On the other hand, some evidence suggests that we may actually be moving in the opposite direction. For example, in the 2017 Campus Computing Survey, the percent of respondents who say that “senior academic leadership understands the strategic value of institutional investments in IT” declined by 10 percent from the previous year. Likewise, the 2017 Leadership Board for CIOs survey reports that board-level involvement in IT governance experienced a “significant drop,” from 26 percent to 17 percent—the lowest level of board engagement in four years.2

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/10/strategic-it-what-got-us-here-wont-get-us-there

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OER Cost Assessment Strategies

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Nichole Karpel and Bruce Schneider, EDUCAUSE Review
Seemingly, OER are good for faculty, students, and college administrators; so why isn’t every college implementing OER as a priority project? The short answer is that OER cost is just the beginning. The planning, selection, management, and maintenance of OER can propel even the best of planning teams into a quandary of unknown variables and decisions that can consume considerable resources for a potentially favorable outcome. This article examines the decisions, challenges, and lessons learned surrounding the implementation of OER. Although users are permitted to revise OER, which brings other considerations, the amount of research in this area is limited, and we focus here on costs, selection, and maintenance of OER.

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/12/oer-cost-assessment-strategies

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December 25, 2018

Michio Kaku and Tracey Wilen on Jobs of the Future

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Dr. Michio Kaku — theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. This co-founder of String Field Theory, joined Dr. Tracey Wilen, a researcher and speaker on the impact of technology on society, work, and careers for a recent edition of his YouTube series. A former visiting scholar at Stanford University Wilen has held leadership positions at Apple, HP, Cisco Systems and the Apollo Group. In this half-hour program, they address Jobs of the Future for college students.

<a href=”https://youtu.be/YCwYAHIPAHs”>https://youtu.be/YCwYAHIPAHs</a>

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Rutgers Report Views Online Classes As the Future

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By TOM HAYDON, TapInto

Ten years ago, 1,234 were taking online college courses at Rutgers University. Last year, in the fall semester of 2017, that number reached 23,042, according to university figures. Nationwide over 6.4 million people are sitting in front of computers to take college courses, about one-third of all the students taking high education classes, Richard Novak, Rutgers vice president for continuing education and distance education, told the university board of governors recently. “If we’re going to make Rutgers as accessible and affordable as we can, we’ve got embrace online portals,” university President Robert Barchi told the board.

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/newark/articles/rutgers-report-views-online-classes-as-the-future-2

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Hey, Google, Alexa, Siri and Higher Ed

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By Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed

The growing use of voice search and virtual digital assistants will have an increasing impact on how we deliver, search for and market higher education.  Voice enabling is the funnel through which we will access increasingly smart technologies. As these technologies evolve and further intertwine into a conversant smart system, we must respond and anticipate the changes that are only months away. A good place to begin is implementing VEO for all of our programs. Universities must be responding to this new trend to capture new prospective students, and to make sure you are sending current students to the proper resources that will enrich their time on campus. (thanks to Jordan DiMaggio UPCEA Associated Director of Policy and Communications for his assistance with this article)

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/blogs/online-trending-now/hey-google-alexa-siri-and-higher-ed

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