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Embracing Technology to Advance Equity
A Carnegie Mellon professor argues that higher education needs to embrace technology to help break down barriers to entry for students.
Preparing Students for the AI-Enhanced Workforce
Our graduating and certificate-completing students need documented generative AI skills, and they need them now.
University of Texas System Bets Big on Microcredentials
The system, with about 250,000 students, has teamed up with microcredential provider Coursera in its largest partnership yet, which will get students credentialed by tech giants including Meta, IBM and Google.
‘On Bullshit’ and AI
The rise of generative AI heralds the dawn of a golden age for bullshit in education, A. G. Elrod writes.
Why Professors Are Polarized on AI
Academics who perceive threats to education from AI band together as a survival mechanism. The resulting alliances echo divisions formed during online learning’s emergence.
Ep. 98: Streamlining and Scaling Transfer for Equity’s Sake
This week’s episode explores how university systems are working to improve student mobility between and among institutions.
A Women’s College’s Profitable Foray Into Online Learning
Spelman’s experiment with in-house certificate programs earned nearly $2 million in its first year, exceeding its expectations.
More Professors Aware of, and Using, Open Educational Resources
A study finds increasing levels of buy-in of open resources, with about three in 10 instructors requiring OER in their courses.