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The evidence comes from studies of each author’s linguistic idiosyncrasies and how they crop up in Henry VIII. Enter Petr Plecháč at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, who says he has solved the problem using machine learning to identify the authorship of more or less every line of the play. “Our results highly support the canonical division of the play between William Shakespeare and John Fletcher proposed by James Spedding,” says Plecháč.
Share on FacebookBy CORINNE RUFF, KCUR
Since taking office, Gov. Mike Parson has focused heavily on jobs. Earlier this year, he went so far as to sign an executive order to merge the departments of higher education and workforce development. Zora Mulligan, Missouri’s higher education commissioner, helps lead the new department in Jefferson City. She said the change has helped broaden the state’s scope of job preparedness. Previously, she said the education department placed too much emphasis on four-year degree programs as the clear path to a well-paying job.
Share on FacebookLiz Farmer, Education Dive
Some higher ed analysts say the four-year schools that have made their programs more open and flexible, such as by offering them online, are in a better position than they were a decade ago to attract a wider range of students. That will be critical for those schools in the event of a downturn. “They are being a bit more flexible in their programmatic structure to offer more accessibility,” said Emily Wadhwani, a higher education analyst at Fitch Ratings. “In the next downturn, that should help to prevent erosion of those programs.”
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Coursera’s AI-centric courses and Specializations will soon reach the milestone of two million enrollments in 2019, according to the company’s data. In this area, one of the most requested courses was AI For Everyone, taught by Coursera’s co-founder Andrew Ng. Other blockbuster courses and specializations were Learning How to Learn, from McMaster University and UC San Diego; The Science of Well-Being, from Yale, IBM Data Science Professional Certificate (with 135,000 enrolled) and Google IT Support Professional Certificate (50,000 enrolled).
https://iblnews.org/courseras-blockbuster-classes-of-2019-preeminence-of-ai-with-2m-enrollments/
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EdX’s president and co-CEO, Adam Medros, who was previously its president and chief operating officer, expects groups of credentials beyond traditionally recognized degrees and certificates to become more widely accepted by employers. Getting recognition among hiring managers has been one noted hurdle for these so-called alternative credentials, and their lack of standardization also threatens further uptake. Below, Education Dive posed three questions to Medros over email about the current and future state of postsecondary education.
https://www.educationdive.com/news/edxs-co-ceo-answers-3-questions-about-higher-eds-future/567600/
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Increasingly, employers in many sectors are allowing or even encouraging their traditional employees to work remotely, and for good reason. Turns out a huge number of workers place remote work at the top of the priority list. The headline? Nearly everyone wants to work remotely, at least part of the time. Some 74% of respondents said they’d be willing to quit their job to work at home, and more than 1 in 4 said they already have quit a job because the company didn’t offer flexible or remote work options.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/work-from-home-survey-says-yes/
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OMSCS continues to be the largest master’s program in computer science in the nation. “Right now we have over 9,000 students and so far over 2,400 graduated; over 1,000 graduating this year,” Zvi Galil, creator of the Master and former John P. Imlay, Jr. Dean of Computing and Professor told IBL News. “This number might reach 1,500 this academic year and might reach 2,000 in a year or two.”
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Although many teens and young adults say there are payoffs to attending college, slightly more (73%) say on-the-job experience is “a good way to prepare for success” in the workforce compared to degrees or other educational experiences, according to a recent survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Of the 769 teens (ages 13 to 17) and 1,804 young adults (ages 18 to 29) polled, equal shares (60%) said vocational training or a bachelor’s degree would help them prepare for success. A slightly higher percentage (66%) said the same of graduate degrees. The results also highlight differences in students’ college-going habits and their views of higher education based on factors such as family income, race and political leaning.
Share on FacebookMark Muro, Jacob Whiton, and Robert Maxim, Brookings
AI could affect work in virtually every occupational group. However, whereas research on automation’s robotics and software continues to show that less-educated, lower-wage workers may be most exposed to displacement, the present analysis suggests that better-educated, better-paid workers (along with manufacturing and production workers) will be the most affected by the new AI technologies, with some exceptions. Our analysis shows that workers with graduate or professional degrees will be almost four times as exposed to AI as workers with just a high school degree. Holders of bachelor’s degrees will be the most exposed by education level, more than five times as exposed to AI than workers with just a high school degree.
Share on FacebookTomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Becky Frankiewicz, HBR
No clear alternative to universities has yet emerged, and while there’s no clear path to disrupting higher education, there are pain points which those of us in the education field and beyond could be confronting. At some point a viable alternative will likely emerge and we see six reasons that make the case for demanding something different.
https://hbr.org/2019/11/6-reasons-why-higher-education-needs-to-be-disrupted
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