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July 24, 2020

Women in Leadership: Challenges and Recommendations

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M. Cristina Alcalde and Mangala Subramaniam, Inside Higher Ed

Even in top positions, women face challenges within institutional structures, systems and mind-sets that require transformative change, argue M. Cristina Alcalde and Mangala Subramaniam. Women have made great gains in higher education and are now earning more degrees than men. In the 2016-17 academic year, 57 percent of bachelor’s degrees were conferred to women, and according to the Pew Research Foundation, women now compose half of the college-educated workforce. While acknowledging gains made in numbers of women, it is equally significant to address the challenges women continue to confront: women hold the least senior administrative positions and are the lowest paid among higher ed administrators.

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/07/17/women-leadership-academe-still-face-challenges-structures-systems-and-mind-sets

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Coursera’s Global Skills Index highlights rush to digitize careers, focus on data

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Larry Dignan, ZDNet
Coursera usage has boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic as university partners moved toward online education and workers moved to upskill.  That’s the upshot of Coursera’s Global Skills Index report for 2020. Coursera usage has boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic as university partners moved toward online education and workers moved to upskill. Toss in some extra time during quarantine and Coursera now has more than 65 million online learners with 13 million in the US. Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera, said the GSI report ranks how countries and industries are performing on key skills based on proficiency. Coursera’s skill graph, the crux of the report, looks at assessments, average scores, and degree of difficulty. “Employers look at this and get some sense for general skill in talent pools,” explained Maggioncalda.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/courseras-global-skills-index-highlights-rush-to-digitize-careers-focus-on-data/

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Protect Your PC: How to Work From Home Securely

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Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine
Working from home opens you up to all sorts of security risks you don’t face in the office. When the IT staff isn’t right down the hall, these simple tips will help protect your company’s data, as well as your own.  There’s a lot you can do to secure your work-from-home situation. The best part is, investing a little time in security benefits your personal digital life as well. Maybe your employer will suffer a data breach while having employees work from home, but it won’t be your fault.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/protect-your-pc-how-to-work-from-home-securely

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July 23, 2020

Why blockchain in higher education?

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LAURA ASCIONE, eCampus News

A new report from the American Council on Education (ACE), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, examines blockchain’s potential in bridging a troubling and expanding gap between higher education and the labor market. Blockchain–a technology that is a “shared, distributed ledger technology (DLT) that uses an agreed-upon and encrypted process to ensure that information on the ledger is tamper-proof, and that the data on the blockchain can be trusted even without centralized, third-party validation”– consists of three layers, as outlined by authors Kerri Lemoie and Louis Soares.

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2020/07/15/why-blockchain-in-higher-education/

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COVID-19’s impact on teaching and learning

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LAURA ASCIONE, eCampus News
An annual technology landscape reveals how technology systems and institutions have been altered by the global health pandemic.  And while flexible learning models were already on the rise, the abrupt closure of campuses across the globe certainly sped up their use, Wiley says. The 2020 Landscape, from Eduventures, reflects the heightened demands placed on teaching and learning ecosystems with new emphasis on the following solution categories:

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2020/07/14/covid-19s-impact-on-teaching-and-learning/

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Reimagining the “First-Year Experience” for Online, Adult Learners

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Laura Harris, Martina Hansen, Beth Mulherrin, Darragh McNally; EDUCAUSE Review

An initial evaluation of the course showed that it significantly improved first-year students’ likelihood of reenrolling at UMGC in the next term. Most importantly, we found that students who take the course are significantly more confident in their ability to complete their degrees, find resources, and overcome hurdles. The course also helps students feel more like they are part of the UMGC community. This blog post describes the journey UMGC took in developing the first-year experience course, the challenges we encountered, and the promising early results.

https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/7/reimagining-the-first-year-experience-for-online-adult-learners

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July 22, 2020

Exploring the Future of Extended Reality in Higher Education

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Jeffrey Pomerantz and Randall Rode, EDUCAUSE

Even before the pandemic, XR technologies were proving their value to education. In the changed circumstances that colleges and universities face today, XR can play an even more significant role.  XR encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality.

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/6/exploring-the-future-of-extended-reality-in-higher-education

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Teaching Effectivelly with Zoom

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Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Kennedy School of Government

An inexpensive publication (below $5 Kindle version) has been self-published by Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.  Focused on pedagogy and practice, it addresses questions and challenges confronting faculty who are new to using Zoom in delivering their classes.

https://www.teachingeffectivelywithzoom.com/

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The State of Private Student Loans in 2020

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Mike Brown, LendU

Analyzing our own data from 2020, LendEDU highlighted private student loan marketplace trends like the average applied credit score vs. the average approved credit score.  The data points that you will find below contained sufficient data from 2020 to include that year in the analysis.

Approval Rates
In 2020, the overall private student loan approval rate was 21.61%.
In 2020, the private student loan approval rate for applicants who applied with a cosigner was 36.09%.
In 2020, the private student loan approval rate for applicants who did NOT apply with a cosigner was 8.84%.

https://lendedu.com/blog/state-of-private-student-loans-2020/

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July 21, 2020

Google to launch 3 more tech certificates on Coursera

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Natalie Schwartz, Education Dive
Google is launching three certificates on Coursera’s online platform in a bid to help workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced this week.  The certificates — which will be in data analytics, project management and user experience design — will cost $49 a month and take three to six months to complete. Google will fund 100,000 need-based scholarships for those who take them.  The new certificates build on Google’s ongoing efforts to shape curriculum at community colleges and build a pipeline of workers with the skills it needs.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/google-to-launch-3-more-tech-certificates-on-coursera/581611/

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Coronavirus puts information literacy in curriculum spotlight

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Shawna De La Rosa, Education Dive

Information literacy has become increasingly difficult to teach in the coronavirus era, as the plethora of online platforms can make it difficult to sort fact from fiction, according to an EdSurge podcast. The pandemic has shown misinformation can have serious health consequences, such as when unproven coronavirus cures and preventions are touted. Peter Adams, senior vice president for education at the News Literacy Project, urges educators to train students to check the authenticity and validity of information before sharing with friends or on social media. Logic Check, a tool created by educational consultant Jonathan Haber, can also help analyze claims through critical thinking rather than fact checking alone, considering questions beyond the basic information presented, which can sometimes be misleading.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/coronavirus-puts-information-literacy-in-curriculum-spotlight/581195/

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Trauma-Informed Online Teaching: Essential for the Coming Academic Year

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Matthea Marquart, Janice Carello, and Johanna Creswell Báez, Social Worker

As educators prepare for a fall semester that will likely include expanded online courses, we urge schools and institutions to prioritize a trauma-informed approach, whether or not courses move online. Students and educators are worried about their own health and the health of their loved ones, experiencing or witnessing increased racist attacks and police violence and other forms of institutionalized racism, grieving those they’ve lost, being stressed about the economy and the world, being impacted by extreme disruptions to their daily routines, and generally experiencing trauma right now.

https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/education–credentials/trauma-informed-online-teaching-essential-coming-academic-year/

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July 20, 2020

Online learning and education for all during and after Covid-19 pandemic

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Anvinti Singh, Financial Express

Since the COVID -19 pandemic has disrupted the normal lifestyle of people across the globe, the virtual world has come to the rescue. Amongst many institutions schools have also shifted their base to virtual platforms to conduct classes online. Consequently, catering to the needs of all stages of education from pre-primary to university level, online education has emerged as an alternative to ordinary face to face classes. Accordingly, various stakeholders such as government and private organizations are trying their best to assist each other by sprucing up their existing online platforms, apps and providing training to teachers to use these apps and platforms to the optimum level.

https://www.financialexpress.com/education-2/online-learning-and-education-for-all-during-and-after-covid-19-pandemic/2021940/

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How higher education may go best of breed, be disassembled amid online learning

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Larry Dignan, ZD Net

With universities going completely online or hybrid it’s time to ponder the future of higher education through the lens of disaggregation. In other words, higher education may face a reckoning much like cable companies, license-based enterprise software companies and data center vendors as bundles blew up. Here’s higher education before COVID-19: You pay tuition that ranges from somewhat ridiculous to extremely ridiculous (and mostly funded by debt) based on a university’s brand. The university provides a suite of classes (some great, some meh), an experience and a vague concept of return on investment that may or may not pan out. Social networking in the real world is a bonus.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-higher-education-may-go-best-of-breed-be-disassembled-amid-online-learning/

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How Online Learning and Networking Can (And Should) Be a Part of the New Normal

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Brian D. Sparks, Greenhouse Grower

When AmericanHort announced earlier this year that Cultivate’20 would become a virtual event, it marked perhaps the most significant change yet in the education process for growers and their teams. Rather than sitting in meetings rooms and interacting in-person with industry experts, Cultivate’20 Virtual attendees will go online this year to participate in Zoom presentations and other digital formats. While this new approach to education might seem like a challenge, it bears consideration as to whether it will become part of what everyone keeps calling the new normal. Fortunately, those experienced in online education argue that it very well should be.

https://www.greenhousegrower.com/management/how-online-learning-and-networking-can-and-should-be-a-part-of-the-new-normal/

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July 19, 2020

How COVID-19 is Revolutionizing the Online Education Industry

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Nikhil Barshikar, Entrepreneur

While we have established that the online education sector was rapidly growing even before the COVID-19 pandemic, it is safe to say that the contagion has accelerated this growth at an unimaginable rate. Through online learning, being physically present in classrooms has given way to innovative new methods of education. As students refrain from being physically present in the same room as their teachers and classmates, online education is inevitably the only way of learning during this age of quarantines and social distancing.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/353106

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South Carolina HBCUs get $2.4M to boost distance-learning

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Associated Press
The eight historically black colleges and universities in South Carolina are getting more than $2 million for technology upgrades, part of emergency relief parceled out from a federal funding package related to the coronavirus outbreak. Gov. Henry McMaster’s office said Thursday that the money would be used to upgrade the schools’ abilities to conduct online learning, a need revealed during the switch to distance learning earlier this year.

https://www.wspa.com/news/state-news/south-carolina-hbcus-get-2-4m-to-boost-distance-learning/

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‘It’s going to be severe’: New Mexico State University to consider layoffs, furloughs, salary cuts

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Kate Bieri, KVIA

As the state of New Mexico works to correct a massive and historic budget shortfall, New Mexico State University’s president said the institution is preparing for the worst. “Everything is on the table, including possible layoffs furloughs or or salary cuts,” said President John Floros in a virtual news conference this week. “But that will be our last resort.” “It’s going to be severe,” said President Floros. “It’s going to be stressful for many of us. But we’re going to get through this, we’re going to figure out ways to to make it work.” [Follow how other universities are handling the crisis at Ray’s Recession Reality blog https://recessionreality.blogspot.com/ ]

https://kvia.com/news/education/2020/07/10/its-going-to-be-severe-new-mexico-state-university-to-consider-possible-layoffs-furloughs-salary-cuts/

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July 18, 2020

Fighting Misinformation in the Age of COVID-19

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Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge

Information literacy has long been hard to teach, especially with the landscape of online platforms changing so fast these days. And during this COVID-19 pandemic, it can seem harder than ever to sort out reliable information from falsehood, rumor and conspiracy. So on this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we’re talking to two experts working to help educators and others sharpen their info literacy and critical-thinking skills. [key skills sought by employers -ray]

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-07-07-fighting-misinformation-in-the-age-of-covid-19

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Neither online nor on-campus: Against a binary approach

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Maurits van Rooijen, University World News

The idea that a programme is taught either online or on campus is outdated. It is more sensible to look at it as a spectrum that goes from conventional face-to-face teaching through to fully online teaching. Covering a large part of the spectrum gives students the choice to learn in a manner that best suits them and their circumstances at the time. Moreover, in the middle of that spectrum is what I call ‘Integrated Virtual Learning’. This will be the ‘new normal’ in education and the COVID-19-induced crisis will have acted as a catalyst.

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200703141825349

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How Online Learning Can Adequately Prepare Students For the Workforce

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JW Marshall, MarketScale

Many colleges and universities have been slow to collaborate with businesses to offer a more relevant curriculum that includes building the basic skills that will be required of their future employers. With all of the uncertainty in education right now, the only certainty is that while the industry is undergoing an unanticipated and expedited overhaul right now, education is vital, but its traditional format isn’t the key. And businesses that recognize the opportunity will have a first mover advantage in the “new normal” of education.  With or without partnering with an established institution in higher education, now is the time to invest in online learning initiatives for your business.

https://marketscale.com/industries/education-technology/online-learning-students-workforce/

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