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.
Share on FacebookMatthew 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/
Share on FacebookBy 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.
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“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/
Share on FacebookDavid 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.
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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.
Share on FacebookAbigail 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.
Share on FacebookBy 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
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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.
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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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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.
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.”
Share on FacebookMatthew 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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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
Share on FacebookBy Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology
“The human condition is being challenged as technology creates varied and ever-changing expectations of humans,” according to research firm Gartner. That’s the theme behind 10 strategic predictions it has made for 2020 and beyond: ways that technology will change the way humans interact with their environment and each other. “Technology is changing the notion of what it means to be human,” noted Daryl Plummer, distinguished vice president and Gartner Fellow, in a statement. “As workers and citizens see technology as an enhancement of their abilities, the human condition changes as well. CIOs in end-user organizations must understand the effects of the change and reset expectations for what technology means.”
By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
The latest word on the use of “pre-class activities” — flipped learning — is that it improves student engagement in the class itself as well as students’ assessment scores. A recent study by a team of researchers from Macmillan Learning and the University of Connecticut examined the use of flipped learning through Achieve, a new Macmillan digital learning tool, and found a “significant effect” with its use.
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2019/11/20/research-flipped-learning-boosts-test-scores.aspx
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At the University of California, Berkeley, learners can hone their leadership and interpersonal skills through a virtual reality environment designed to help people navigate a global and multicultural workplace. The institution’s Robertson Center for Intercultural Leadership (CIL) is using customized VR simulations created by Mursion, a company that provides immersive VR training in career skills. The Mursion platform “blends artificial intelligence with live human interaction to deliver training that prepares learners for challenging interpersonal moments on the job,” according to a news announcement.
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From the click on an online search bar to the scroll of free online study materials, it’s easy for all of us to access resources that will aid self-teaching students. Described as a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach to education, learners are creating their own curriculum structure through online short courses, boot camps and virtual conferences. Perceived as a popular topic in The Global Learner Survey 2019 by Pearson, a DIY mindset was identified as a trend among survey respondents this year. “With ready access to technology and a changing global economy, people are taking matters into their own hands. They are patching together their education from a menu of options and they believe that self-service learning will become even more commonplace as people seek education across their lives,” notes the report.
https://www.studyinternational.com/news/rise-self-teaching-students/
Share on FacebookAbigail Hess, CNBC
There are several online education providers offering free and low-cost courses for workers hoping to “upskill,” meaning they want to pick up a new skill that can help them advance their careers. One of those providers is LinkedIn Learning, which costs about $299.88 per year but is often offered to students by their universities or to workers through their employers. Approximately 93 million workers took a course on LinkedIn Learning in 2019.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/06/over-3-million-people-took-these-5-online-courses-in-2019.html
Share on FacebookBy Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
A statewide study of 30 SUNY community colleges found that, overall, students who successfully completed online courses nearly doubled their chances of earning a degree or transferring to a four-year college. However, racial minority students had reduced outcomes. As reported in the study published recently in the Online Learning Journal, the current thinking holds that “some students” do worse when they study online compared to when they attend face-to-face classes. The results, developed by Peter Shea at SUNY’s University of Albany, and Temi Bidjerano at South Carolina’s Furman University pulled data from 45,557 students attending community colleges for the first time in New York between fall 2012 and fall 2017.
By Alicia Geigel, ULoop
Many people foreign to the world of online classes assume that the academics and learning are far easier than traditional style classes, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth! When taking online classes, there is so much more to consider than when being in a regular classroom, such as access to more distractions, adjusting to virtual learning, managing time properly, and most importantly, having a proper place to work. If you don’t have a place to work when taking classes online, projects, tests, essays, etc. can be nearly impossible to do- leaving you trying to scramble and save your grade from potentially failing.
https://www.uloop.com/news/view.php/279325/5-Great-Areas-to-Work-for-Online-Classes
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