Online Learning Update

January 31, 2020

Corporate Vs. Educational eLearning

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Corporate learning, for the most part, also has one goal in mind. Instead of holistic knowledge, however, companies target competency building within their employee population. Corporate learning focuses on teaching employees skills that are specific to their individual roles and, more importantly, to advancing the company’s agenda. The measurement of success comes in the form of the return on investment, or how much a company has gained as a result of, in this case, their corporate training. Corporate learning can also be an excellent way to bridge the skilled labor gap that is strikingly present in today’s workforce. With more workers holding more skills, the viability of corporate success can skyrocket.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/corporate-vs-educational-elearning/

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S&P’s higher ed outlook stays negative in 2020

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

By Hallie Busta, Education Dive
S&P Global Ratings gave nonprofit colleges and universities a negative outlook for the third-straight year, citing continued challenges that could do more to hurt than help institutions’ credit ratings. However, well-resourced institutions with broader reach and recognition are expected to fare better than smaller, regional schools, the ratings agency noted in a report explaining its outlook. The outlook comes a month after Moody’s Investors Service upgraded the sector’s rating to stable for 2020, while Fitch Ratings kept its negative.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/sps-higher-ed-outlook-stays-negative-in-2020/570715/

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ACICS no longer seeking CHEA recognition

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Education Dive

The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and School (ACICS), a troubled national accreditor that had its federal status revoked under the Obama administration, is no longer seeking recognition from the main private association that vets accreditors in the U.S., weakening its legitimacy in the higher education sector. The announcement comes after a Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) committee recommended ACICS’ recognition with the association be denied.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/breaking-acics-withdraws-application-for-recognition/570711/

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January 30, 2020

The Top 5 Tech Trends That Will Disrupt Education In 2020

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:09 am

Bernard Marr, Forbes

Artificial intelligence will continue to fill gaps in learning and teaching and help personalize and streamline education.  Extended reality, including virtual, augmented, and mixed realities, helps create different learning opportunities that can engage students even further. Education is increasingly becoming mobile, and educational institutions are figuring out ways to enhance the student experience by implementing mobile technology solutions. Of course, this technology requires a capable network to handle the traffic demands, and 5G technology will provide powerful new mobile data capabilities. Finally, blockchain technology offers educational institutions to store and secure student records.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2020/01/20/the-top-5-tech-trends-that-will-disrupt-education-in-2020the-edtech-innovations-everyone-should-watch/#59aa2b0c2c5b

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The Analytics Revolution in Higher Education

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

Jonathan S. Gagliardi, Tomorrow’s Professor

If effectively harnessed, the massive amount of information born out of the analytics revolution can allow institutions to better understand student needs; enhance the quality of teaching, learning, and advising; drive down costs; and predict and avoid risks (Cai & Zhu, 2015; Denley, 2014). Despite this, the sheer volume of data and the multitude of tools for analysis are inconsequential to colleges and universities unless the conditions exist for their effective use. In fact, while artificial intelligence and machine learning grab headlines, most colleges lack that level of analytics sophistication, and they do not need it. Many institutions would benefit from a solid foundation of data that is based on accuracy, timeliness, relevancy, integration, and security.

https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1763

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Why Lifelong Learning is the Key to Entrepreneurial Success

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

Aytekin Tank, the Hour

How can we make learning our default mode? According to Holmes, it’s not about amassing random knowledge or memorizing copious amounts of information. It’s about turning what we absorb into strategic action. Many entrepreneurs get stuck believing they should acquire as much knowledge as possible or become a human Wikipedia. It’s now easier than ever to Google anything our heart desires, but all of this rapid browsing gives us the illusion that we’re processing more than we actually are. True learning, on the other hand, goes far beyond hoarding facts.

https://www.thehour.com/business/article/Why-Lifelong-Learning-is-the-Key-to-14983509.php

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January 29, 2020

Dawn of 5G: Empowering VR, AR and Much More

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:42 pm
Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
The enormous learning potential of virtual and augmented reality will be enabled through the wide-scale rollout of 5G. In many ways, widespread deployment of 5G will enable online learning to leapfrog the traditional classroom in providing meaningful, realistic and impactful engagements for learners at a distance. Providing simulations and real-life engagements to students will take the learning field virtually outside the classroom and directly into the workplace and the world, from subatomic spaces to outer space. In addition to an assortment of reality formats reaching unlimited locations, 5G will enable even more robust-sized, larger group discussions than we have been able to support in the past.
 
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Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New Coronavirus (Consider the role of online learning as this unfolds – ray)

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

Helen Branswell, Scientific American

Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, urged countries to start planning to deal with global spread of the new virus. Such plans need to include far more aggressive efforts to develop a vaccine than have already been announced, he suggested.  “I’m not making a prediction that it’s going to happen,” Inglesby said, though he noted the mathematical modeling, the statements from Chinese authorities, and the sharply rising infection numbers make a case for this possible outcome. “I think just based on those pieces of limited information, it’s important for us to begin some planning around the possibility that this won’t be contained.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-warn-of-possible-sustained-global-spread-of-new-coronavirus/

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New data shows earning power of college graduates

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Education Dive
Individuals with bachelor’s degrees will earn $400,000 more in their lifetimes than those with just a high school diploma, according to a new report from the College Board.  College graduates who enrolled at age 18 and earned a degree in four years “can expect to earn enough relative to a high school graduate” by age 33 to make up for paying tuition and other costs and for being out of the workforce while in college, the report notes.  The study comes as polls show some Americans are skeptical of the value of higher education and whether a traditional degree is worth the investment.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/new-data-shows-earning-power-of-college-graduates/570410/

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Why Edtech Needs More Researchers, Not More Companies

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Edtech companies, or companies who seek to deliver learning via digital platforms and assets, are springing up quickly all over the United States. They are appearing in K-12, higher education, and corporate contexts, each with their own chosen philosophies and approaches to solve what they deem are the problems most critical in undermining the success of learners and instructors. But while their intentions are often good, there are obstacles they have yet to overcome in order to accurately fulfill the needs of the schools and companies who use their technology.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/why-edtech-needs-more-researchers-not-more-companies/

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January 28, 2020

LSBF re-imagines distance learning through VR

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

Kerrie Kennedy, PIE News
London School of Business and Finance has announced it is offering all of its online postgraduate students a new way to gain public speaking skills via virtual reality headsets. So far, hundreds of headsets have been sent to students all around the world, including Germany, Nigeria, India and the United Arab Emirates. Education is expected to become the fourth biggest sector for VR investments, predicted to be worth US$700 million by 2025. Postgraduate students who enrolled on LSBF’s online programs in October 2019 recieved the zero-cost VR equipment this month.

https://thepienews.com/news/edu-tech/lsbf-re-imagines-distance-learning-through-vr/

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Spotting Mobile Learning Opportunities

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

It’s almost like a reflex, wanting to keep cell phones and tablets out of the hands of students and employees. These devices are a distraction, some argue, a distraction that takes the focus away from true learning or accomplishments. But what if mobile devices could do just the opposite? What if they could provide teachers and employers with an opportunity to achieve real, engaged learning within their student population or workforce? Below are three categories to explore when considering a switch to mobile learning.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/spotting-mobile-learning-opportunities/

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Google launches online coding course to train workers for tech jobs

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

Richard Nieva, C|Net

As the tech industry continues to change the employment landscape for American workers, Google says it wants to prepare them for jobs in the industry. The search giant on Thursday announced a new course in the coding language Python, a key skill that many employers are looking for. The program, called the Google IT Automation With Python Professional Certificate, will be available through the online education service Coursera. It’ll be a six-course program in beginner-level Python, which will culminate in a final capstone project focused on programming for automation.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-launches-online-coding-course-in-python-to-train-workers-for-tech-jobs/

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January 27, 2020

Moody’s: Slow Student Loan Repayment Driving High Balances, Bringing Social, Credit Implications

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

Rick Seltzer, Inside Higher Ed

Slow repayments have become the most important contributor to rising student loan balances, Moody’s Investors Service. In the past, rising tuition and climbing college enrollments were the largest contributors to increasing student loan balances, according to the ratings agency. But the drivers shifted to slow repayment, which is likely to combine with continued elevated levels of borrowing to increase outstanding debt into the future. Moody’s singled out social and credit implications for increasing student debt burdens. Student debt is “weighing on household finances and the broader economy,” according to Moody’s.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/01/17/moodys-slow-student-loan-repayment-driving-high-balances-bringing-social

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Crunch Time for Calbright

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

Madeline St. Amour, Inside Higher Ed

California’s new online-only community college grabbed headlines again with its CEO’s departure. Some observers are raising red flags after the unexpected departure of the president and CEO of California’s new online-only community college. But others chalk it up to the normal growing pains associated with a start-up and say it’s too soon to judge whether the college will be successful.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/01/17/calbright-college-give-it-time-or-doomed-start

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3 Problems That Could Diminish Elearning Growth

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Elearning has long been touted as the answer to many problems encountered by institutions and students alike. It is a thriving industry that claims to open doors for learners in most corners of the world and with vastly different learning needs. But while its reach and subsequent success has been growing, there are problems lurking that could ultimately lend themselves to the industry’s downfall.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/3-problems-that-could-diminish-elearning-growth/

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January 26, 2020

Many Nonprofit College Programs Would Fail Gainful Test

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:09 am

Kery Murakami, Inside Higher Ed

Only about 60 percent of programs at private nonprofit institutions, and 70 percent of those at public colleges and universities, would pass the Obama administration’s gainful-employment test, if it were in place and applied to them, according to an online tool developed by a conservative Texas policy group. Coming amid a stalemate over how to proceed with college accountability after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos repealed the gainful-employment rule in July, the tool made public by the Texas Public Policy Foundation was aimed in part to further the idea that public and nonprofit institutions — and not just for-profit colleges — should face scrutiny for how well graduates do financially.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/01/16/profit-programs-not-only-ones-would-fail-gainful-employment-test

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‘Techlash’ Hits College Campuses

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

Emma Goldberg, NY Times

Many students still see employment in tech as a ticket to prosperity, but for job seekers who can afford to be choosy, there is a growing sentiment that Silicon Valley’s most lucrative positions aren’t worth the ethical quandaries. Claire Stapleton worked at Google and YouTube for 12 years. “There was this ambient glow of being part of a company that was changing the world,” she said. “Working at Google or Facebook seemed like the coolest thing ever my freshman year, because you’d get paid a ton of money but it was socially responsible,” said Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, 21, a senior at the University of Michigan. “It was like a utopian workplace.” Now, he said, “there’s more hesitation about the moral qualities of these jobs. It’s like how people look at Wall Street.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/style/college-tech-recruiting.html

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When is higher ed worth it?

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

LAURA ASCIONE, eCampus News

For years, stakeholders have sought to define what, exactly, Americans value from their education. Many have focused on wages, in part due to studies demonstrating that college graduates earn more over a lifetime than their non-graduate peers. But the answer might not be related to wages at all. Instead, people say they see more value in their education when their courses strongly relate to their work, and when they have high-quality, applied-learning experiences and top-notch career and academic advising opportunities.

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2020/01/10/when-is-higher-ed-worth-it/

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January 25, 2020

Collaborative Education In An Online Setting

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

Robert Burrus, Wilmington Biz

What message do I attempt to deliver with this narrative? For some of the practical-based courses offered in a university, the potential may exist for “partnerships” with professionals from within the community. The Cameron School of Business prides itself on engagement with the Cape Fear business community. This includes placement of students with local companies and opportunities for business leaders to come to campus in guest teaching roles. Even though the impact of guest lecturing in an online environment might not be immediately perceived, the end results can be very rewarding. Wilmington definitely has its share – if not more than its share – of true professionals who have something to offer in augmenting the educational process in distance learning courses.

http://www.wilmingtonbiz.com/insights/robert__burrus/collaborative_education_in_an_online_setting/2616

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3 Tips To Easily Create Interactive eLearning

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

Matthew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

The reality is this: students will not find boring content interesting simply because it is placed in an online setting. Instructors and course builders must think creatively and use available interactive assets in order to engage learners. Doing so, of course, requires consideration of learning purpose and course objectives. Simply employing interactive tools or templates without consideration of purpose will yield adverse results (i.e. students will not learn or see the value in learning if the tools and/or templates are seemingly pointless). Thus, online learning should be well thought out and carefully planned, just as a course is that is taught solely in a brick and mortar setting. The difference here, of course, is that instructors and learners now have an entire digital world at their disposal.

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/3-tips-to-easily-create-interactive-elearning/

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