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December 31, 2019

6 Reasons Why eLearning Programs May Fail, Plus Tips to Avoid Failure

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Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Many eLearning courses offered today are not doing very well, mostly because the course designers have not adjusted to the demands of modern learners. Let’s look at some issues that modern learners have with some online courses.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/6-reasons-why-elearning-programs-may-fail-plus-tips-to-avoid-failure/

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The fastest-growing job in the US pays $136,000 a year—here are the other 14

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Jennifer Liu, CNBC

LinkedIn’s 2020 Emerging Jobs Report names artificial intelligence specialist as the job that saw the most growth in the the past five years. For example, hiring growth for AI specialists, which pays a national average of $136,000 per year according to LinkedIn salary data, has grown 74% each year, on average, since 2015. The one fast-growing job on the list that doesn’t fall within tech is No. 9 behavioral health technician, which has likely grown thanks to increased health insurance coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment in recent years, according to the LinkedIn report.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/11/linkedin-emerging-jobs-report-2020-fastest-growing-us-job-pays-136k.html

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Microsoft details the most clever phishing techniques it saw in 2019

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Catalin Cimpanu, ZDNet
This year’s most clever phishing tricks include hijacking Google search results and abusing 404 error pages. While phishing attacks increased, the number of ransomware, crypto-mining, and other malware infections went down, the company said at the time. In a blog post published today, the Redmond-based tech giant reviewed three of the more clever phishing attacks it seen this year.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-details-the-most-clever-phishing-techniques-it-saw-in-2019/

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December 30, 2019

5 Easy Mistakes to Make When Collecting Feedback for Your Online Course

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Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Getting feedback from learners about your online course is important. Feedback from course goers tells you what you can do to improve the course for future students. Asking for feedback from existing students also makes them feel that you value their input, which means they might enroll with you for another course. Asking for feedback from students on your online course can make you feel somewhat uncomfortable, but it can only help you to improve your courses and gain more students. Let’s look at some of the mistakes to avoid when you’re collecting feedback about your online course.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/5-easy-mistakes-to-make-when-collecting-feedback-for-your-online-course/

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College credit where credit is due — recognizing ‘prior learning’

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Frank Swanzy Essien Jr., Medium

With a little help, nearly 36 million Americans who spent some time at college but never finished could be encouraged to resume their studies and get their degrees. What would it take? For starters, we need to improve recognition for prior learning, or RPL. In other words, we need better, more efficient processes for giving students credit for what they’ve learned outside of a college campus. That includes skills learned at work, in apprenticeships, at training courses, and much more. Receiving credit for what students know and can do could be a powerful motivator to continue school and graduate.

https://medium.com/todays-students-tomorrow-s-talent/college-credit-where-credit-is-due-recognizing-prior-learning-f359a751d043

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AI recreates videos people are watching by reading their minds

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By Matthew North, New Scientist

Artificial intelligence is getting better at reading your mind. An AI could guess what videos people were watching purely from their brainwaves. Grigory Rashkov at Russian research firm Neurobotics and his colleagues trained an AI using video clips of different objects and brainwave recordings of people watching them. The recordings were made using an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap and the video clips included nature scenes, people on jet skis and human expressions. The AI then tried to categorise and recreate the video clips from EEG data alone. In 210 out of 234 attempts, the AI successfully categorised each video, by providing tags such as waterfalls, extreme sports or human faces.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2224866-ai-recreates-videos-people-are-watching-by-reading-their-minds/

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December 29, 2019

Learn how to future-proof your campus

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BRADLEY FUSTER, eCampus News

The current campus-based, semester-delivery model is unlikely to sustain itself into the next century–efforts to future-proof campuses will pay off. In any ecosystem, if one waits long enough, eventually a cataclysmic disruption occurs. The final years at Blockbuster Video, Kodak Corporation, and Toys “R” Us, all share the consistent systemic failure to respond to disruptive threats: a willful ignorance to reexamine and adjust their product, services, and business model. Higher education is behaving much the same way. Until institutions acknowledge both the impending disruptive threat and the risk of not appropriately responding, higher ed remains a vulnerable enterprise.

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2019/12/11/learn-how-to-future-proof-your-campus/

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Microcredentials drive WSU’s international student enrollment gains

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Matthew Kelly, the Sunflower

When the Kansas Board of Regents released official fall enrollment numbers last month, Wichita State was the only university to report an increase in international student headcount enrollment. The number of degree-seeking international students at WSU has decreased each of the last four years, but this decline has been offset by a spike in international students taking badge courses — self-directed online classes offered for half a credit hour.

https://thesunflower.com/47344/news/microcredentials-drive-wsus-international-student-enrollment-gains/

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Classroom in a Pocket? Creating a Mobile eLearning Environment

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Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Classroom in a pocket? That’s right. It also means that students have in their hands, all the textbooks they might need, all the information related to their courses and even a means to interpersonal contact with their lecturers and other students. Mobile learning is growing in popularity. Did you know that 89% of smartphone users download apps, 50% of which are used for learning, and 46% of learners use mobile learning before they go to sleep at night? There are several mobile learning apps on the market, many of them free, but if you want to create your eLearning app, you need to keep the following factors in mind.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/classroom-in-a-pocket-creating-a-mobile-elearning-environment/

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December 28, 2019

Ratings Agencies Post Mixed Outlooks for Higher Education

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By Rick Seltzer, Inside Higher

Two ratings agencies offered differing opinions Tuesday on the future of the U.S. higher education sector. Moody’s Investors Service raised its U.S. higher education outlook from negative to stable as it sees steady revenue streams, solid reserves and strong operating performance at large comprehensive universities bolstering the sector over the next year to 18 months. Fitch Ratings kept a negative outlook in place, predicting continued operating pressures as challenges persist from a moderate number of students graduating from high school, limited public funding levels and slowing tuition growth.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/12/11/ratings-agencies-post-mixed-outlooks-higher-education

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5G brings new capabilities to the University of Miami

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eCampus News

“In collaboration with AT&T, the University of Miami will be able to support 5G using millimeter wave spectrum (“5G+”) and Edge technology on its Coral Gables campus, placing the university at the forefront of digital transformation impacting every field,” says Ernie Fernandez, vice president of Information Technology and chief information officer for the University. “It will allow students, faculty, and staff to develop, test, and use the next generation of digital apps, including Magic Leap’s spatial computing platform, in new and exciting ways.”

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2019/11/20/5g-brings-new-capabilities-to-the-university-of-miami/

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Collaboration in hard times in higher education

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David Porter, University Affairs Canada

At its best, collaboration in higher education can inspire teachers, students, researchers and administrators with a common vision of educational excellence and the sense of purpose needed to help achieve it. But despite known benefits, collaboration is often hostage to structural and cultural constraints that limit the open sharing of ideas and activities. In an environment of fiscal restraint, tendencies toward isolationism are intensified with predictable results – the aspiration to sustainable action on multiple fronts that is needed to address the dynamic training and education challenges of today is replaced with an attitude of let’s look after ourselves. What we need, instead, is collaboration to go forward.

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/collaboration-in-hard-times-in-higher-education/

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December 27, 2019

Leading Companies in North America Partner with Coursera to Execute on Digital Transformation

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Business Wire

Coursera, the world’s leading online learning platform, today announced several new customers as part of its fast-growing enterprise business. In 2019, large organizations including Mastercard, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, and the NYC Department of Small Business Services initiated or continued partnerships with Coursera for Business to equip employees with the skills of the future. To date, Coursera has helped over 2,000 companies and governments worldwide achieve their skills development goals, including more than 60 companies in the Fortune 500.

https://www.ksl.com/article/46688448/leading-companies-in-north-america-partner-with-coursera-to-execute-on-digital-transformation

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Workers are taking courses online to communicate better off-line—here’s why

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Abigail Hess, CNBC

It may sound counter-intuitive, but today workers are turning to online courses to improve their off-line communication abilities. According to a recent analysis by LinkedIn Learning, the No. 1 topic that learners took the most courses in this year was communication. The trend could be seen across all age brackets, from Generation Z workers at the beginning of their careers to baby boomers at the management and executive levels. One reason communication was the most popular topic, Emily Poague, vice president of LinkedIn Learning told CNBC Make It: There is a large volume of communication classes offered online, driven by a strong interest.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/workers-are-taking-courses-online-to-communicate-better-off-line.html

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5 Proven Ways to Make Your Good Online Course Great

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By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

Recent research uncovered just a handful of distinct elements that set great online teaching apart from the merely good. The findings came out of interviews with eight faculty members who have won awards for their online teaching from three professional associations: the Online Learning Consortium, the Association for Educational Communications & Technology and the United States Distance Learning Association. According to the research, undertaken by Swapna Kumar and Albert Ritzhaupt at the University of Florida and Florence Martin and Kiran Budhrani at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, award winners emphasize five musts for their online courses

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2019/12/09/5-proven-ways-to-make-your-good-online-course-great.aspx

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December 26, 2019

3 in-demand soft skills that you can develop through online trainings

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India Today

he rise of digitalisation and automation brought several changes in the Indian job sector; Owing to this, the way we impart and consume education went through a transformation as well. To succeed in any industry, degree, practical experience, and proficiency in domain-specific skills are certainly important. However, in order to efficiently use technology and apply your hard skills, it is extremely important to brush your soft skills before entering any organisation.  Analytical Thinking, Problem Solving, Creativity are key skills – here’s how they can be developed.

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/jobs-and-careers/story/3-demand-soft-skills-can-develop-online-trainings-divd-1626536-2019-12-09

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Data Science, Python Top Popular Specializations, Certificates

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Nick Kolakowski, Dice

What kinds of technology-related courses did students pursue this year? Based on new data from Coursera, it’s clear that data science, Python, and artificial intelligence (A.I.) are on the minds of the next generation of technologists. Coursera, a massive online learning platform, has provided a breakdown of its most popular courses in 2019. “AI and related tech-centric content attracted interest like never before,” read the blog posting accompanying Coursera’s data. “2019 is the year AI became accessible to the masses, rather than just for engineers.” Here’s a breakdown of the most popular specializations and professional certificates that Coursera taught in 2019.

https://insights.dice.com/2019/12/09/data-science-python-popular-certificates/

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Woman Charged With Paying Someone to Take Online Classes for Her Son

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Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed
Karen Littlefair, a California woman, has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty to charges that she paid someone to take online courses for her son, and to transfer the credits to Georgetown University, where he was a student. Littlefair paid the money to Rick Singer, the mastermind of the college admissions scandal, but her son was already enrolled at Georgetown. For the $9,000 she paid, her son received credit for four courses. He graduated from Georgetown last year. Littlefair agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The government will recommend a sentence of four months behind bars.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/12/10/woman-charged-paying-someone-take-online-classes-her-son

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December 25, 2019

Blackboard Behind Bars

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Lilah Burke, Inside Higher Ed

Colleges and corrections departments increasingly are turning to online instruction for incarcerated students. But while those programs may be easier to scale, challenges and questions about quality remain. Marc Howard, director of Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative says “If you care about bringing costs down, if you care about making communities safer, if you care about having better families where children have role models who are in school like they are… there’s so many benefits that extend from prison education for a very, very small price tag.”

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/12/10/online-education-comes-prisons?mc_cid=1ba5ef10cb&mc_eid=879d6835e3

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7 Frequently Asked Questions About Gamification

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Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Gamification seems to be the new eLearning buzzword. The term pops up everywhere in blogs and articles where writers go on about the benefits of this “methodology” and some even claiming that it is one of five eLearning trends that has stood the test of time. Yet, many people don’t know what gamification is as the headline of this article suggests. Let’s address some of the common questions that course designers and others have about gamification.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/7-frequently-asked-questions-about-gamification/

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5G: The Returns, the Risks, and Rosey the Robot

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Live Tiles

4G speeds are increasing all the time, but 5G promises data transfer at around ten times faster than current 4G speeds. Maximum speed forecasts in ideal conditions are 20Gb/s, but for the average consumer, download speeds sit at around 100Mb/s (depending on location, hardware, the network, other users, etc) – which is 4G’s theoretical maximum.

https://www.livetiles.nyc/5g-the-returns-the-risks-and-rosey-the-robot

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