The conference, co-hosted this week by Inside Higher Ed and Times Higher Education in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, brought together hundreds of college administrators and education technology company officials to explore the possibilities and challenges of digital transformation in higher ed. “I’ve been on a digital transformation for over 20 years; the first lesson is, it doesn’t happen overnight,” said Lev Gonick, chief information officer at Arizona State University, who kicked off the event’s second day, describing a science-focused virtual reality lab and a partn ..read more

MIT, Google-authored report likens generative AI’s transformative potential to electricity. Despite being early in its life cycle, generative AI is already providing users with sizable productivity gains the report suggests. The technology will “increase and spread as people and organizations come up with complementary innovations that leverage generative AI’s capabilities.” The report referenced an OpenAI estimation that generative AI solutions could enable 80% of U.S. workers to perform at least 10% of their tasks twice as quickly. Generative AI could scale faster than other general-purpose ..read more

The authors of the Teaching Sociology article recommend teachers respond first by finding out if they have anxious students, how many, and what’s causing the anxiety. Is it related to the course specifically, their confidence as learners, worries about the grade, test anxiety, or the absence of some necessary skill? It’s a good recommendation because teachers can respond better if they know what they’re dealing with. And students are often comforted to discover they aren’t the only ones in the course with these fears. https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-classroom-management/teachi ..read more

The rising popularity of online education has emerged as a transformative force, breaking barriers, and providing equal education opportunities, particularly for differently abled individuals. In India, the differently abled community accounts for 2.68 crore people, which is over 2.21% of the population as per reports by the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities. Online education has played a crucial role in empowering these individuals and transforming their lives, who often encounter significant hurdles in traditional educational settings. https://www.educationtimes ..read more

As most practitioners (including teachers) do not know how AI functions and cannot make full use of AI in education, there is an urgent need to investigate teachers’ intentions to learn AI and related determinants so as to promote their AI learning. Motivated by these gaps, our aim to explore the antecedents of K-12 teachers’ intentions to learn AI. To this end, we propose and validate a model, which integrates AI literacy and awareness of AI ethics with TRA and TPB. Our larger goals include using our findings as a foundation for further investigation in the arena of K-12 teachers’ AI learning ..read more

Fourteen articles were included for scoping review, themes include blended E-learning, nursing students’ e-learning readiness, and The challenges with the E-learning system. First: Blended learning may be a beneficial educational strategy in nursing education but it also requires a cautious and carefully planned approach with sufficient time for each student. Second: E-readiness is an important component of academic success, and prospective e-learning users’ capacity to use a new learning environment, as well as alternative technologies, is referred to as e-learning readiness. In addition, con ..read more

It is early August 2024. I am about to begin the fall term of teaching, research, administrative tasks and advising with the help of generative artificial intelligence tools and assistants. This is what I anticipate will be reality for savvy faculty members in the fall of this year. Versions of the technology capabilities mentioned are already available. We are likely to see even more robust autonomous artificial agents than I describe. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is predicted to arrive this fall. And, some scientists predict Artificial Super-Intelligence will follow in 2027. The tec ..read more

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence appears to be taking a toll on the shares of online education companies Chegg and Coursera. Both stocks sank by more than 10% on Tuesday after issuing disappointing guidance in part because of students using AI tools such as ChatGPT from OpenAI. Chegg, which announced a new CEO, said it expects second-quarter revenue to come in between $159 million and $161 million, lower than the $174 million expected by analysts polled by LSEG. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/online-education-stocks-tank-on-chatgpt-threat.html ..read more

About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that their new school will also close, often with little or no warning. Some of the students at Newbury, when it closed in 2019, had moved there from nearby Mount Ida College, for example, which shut down the year before. https://hechingerreport.org/coll ..read more

Daniel Douglas is a Lecturer in Sociology & Director of Social Science Research at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Education and Employment Research Center at Rutgers University. My colleagues and I surveyed students in non-credit programs at two community colleges.  A review of existing studies on non-degree credentials, including micro-credentials, found that outcomes like hiring and wages varied widely. Micro-credentials in high-demand fields like IT and construction appeared more valuable than those in office administration or education. But ..read more