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The pandemic may have ended but the demand for edtech is growing

University Business

One of the greatest challenges higher education has ever had to face was the pandemic. Colleges didn’t choose but were forced to overcome barriers to instruction through innovative educational technology solutions with little to no turnaround as students returned home for remote learning.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU).

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU).

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We need to talk about staff retention in the sector

HEPI

Demand for higher education is high, with more and more young people seeing the value of a university education, which is obviously great news for the sector. This is a particular challenge for newer institutions, such as further education colleges that deliver higher education. to 17 between 2014 and 2021.

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IIT Guwahati Launches Online Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence on Coursera

Coursera blog

NEP 2020 further highlights the importance of increasing the Gross Enrollment Ratio in higher education. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2023 , tech roles, including AI and machine learning specialists, data analysts, and data scientists, are expected to grow by more than 30% by 2028.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The Association for the Study of Higher Education, like many organizations, plots its annual meetings several years ahead. Guilbeau, the higher ed research group’s executive director. California had 133,399 full-time higher education employees as of March 2021, according to U.S.

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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

EAB

By 2028, six million less working aged adults will be in the workforce, causing more competition for talent across all sectors, not just higher education. One way to retain your current staff, and stave off disruptions to student services, is to right-size their workload by leveraging technology.