Coursera blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How do you determine which online training provider is right for your agency and employees? A Skills-First Approach Before allocating training resources, it’s crucial to understand the current skills of your employees and identify areas for improvement. Is it authored by well-respected universities and industry leaders?

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EAB

AUGUST 28, 2023

Blogs Most strategic plans fail to set useful goals. Having reviewed over a hundred college and university strategic plans, I have found that while they all include goals, the majority fail to set “useful” goals, by that I mean goals that can actually galvanize concerted action toward institutional outcomes.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 27, 2023

Enjoy the read and enjoy your day, Lindsey Downs, WCET Let’s have an honest conversation What did you learn about accessibility when you were in school? This involves making sure that our educational materials, technologies, activities, and courses are accessible to students with disabilities. Thank you Kate and Rolando!

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EAB

MARCH 9, 2023

Blogs 4 takeaways on combatting faculty burnout from our gathering of academic leaders EAB recently launched the first two-part event series for our partners focused on combatting faculty burnout and integrating a culture of well-being in academic affairs. 5 critical to dos for academic leaders to support student success 2.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Discover Manuel’s Experience in the iMBA program by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Gies College of Business, providing online education excellence for decades. Manuel is a student in the Master of Business Administration (iMBA) program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Gies College of Business.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This blog was kindly provided by Matt Riddle, Principal and Director of Learning Experiences, Curio. Coming at a time when universities are still weighing the impact of the pandemic on higher education, many now see blended learning as the ‘new normal’. Is now the perfect time to reconsider the student experience in higher education?

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Helix Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Inclusivity. However, the most effective capitalize on and celebrate what makes Gen Z donors unique: meeting these donors where they are and looking for inspiration as the youngest graduates begin charting their course as philanthropists, nonprofit professionals, and future leaders. Omnichannel. Give-to-Get. Collective Impact.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? ” Is Princeton truly a leader in these fields? In 1977, when the university’s endowment stood at $2 billion, its freshman class was 1,585.

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Coursera blog

JUNE 19, 2023

L&D and HR leaders will play a crucial role in building organizational agility and implementing programs to support change and take advantage of growth opportunities created by disruptive forces. Leadership skills such as management, communication, and agility are critical to engage, navigate, and motivate employees amid rapid change.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Blogs Five Things University Leaders are Prioritizing This Year (And Two They Should Be) The results from EAB’s Spring 2023 Pulse Survey are in! Now in 2023, issues with academic readiness and social isolation are having meaningful impacts on retention and student success, including an entirely new phenomenon – “move-in melt.”

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

With this in mind, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte decided to evaluate its institutional policies through an equity lens using EAB’s 360-Degree Student Equity Audit. Beyond mitigating barriers to student success and understanding the holistic student, what were your goals for the initial student equity audit?

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity Change leadership acts as a vital bridge between intent and action. This means guiding your organization through significant transformations by inspiring and influencing people to embrace new ways of thinking, behaving, and working.

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WCET Frontiers

MAY 11, 2023

Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence Recently, WCET conducted a survey of college and university leaders regarding the use of generative AI on their campuses. Although there is currently no comprehensive directory of course level AI usage policies, Lance Eaton has begun to crowdsource examples of such policies.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting One of my personal mantras about writing is that writing is thinking. But writing is an embodied act, and there’s occasions – like speaking to your community in the aftermath of a mass shooting at a university – where the human self must be brought to the task. Perhaps I can illustrate.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JULY 11, 2023

Harness Your Unique Story to Increase Enrollment It’s never been harder to stand out in higher education. But we both know your university has far more to offer than that. You need to dig deep to uncover what truly makes your university distinct. Uncover Your Unique Value So you’re ready to start digging.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Today’s customer-centered colleges and universities are not the learner and learning-centered universities we need. A customer-centric college or university prioritizes its brand. The $64,000 question, of course, is how to do these things in a context of budgetary constraints.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Today, we conclude the WCET blog series on microcredentials which set out to address the inception, implementation, and evaluation of microcredentialing approaches across the higher education industry. We’re seeing that shift in mindset reflected in university recruitment numbers. Overview and Introduction.

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Edu Alliance Journal

JULY 5, 2022

“When a leader gets better, everyone wins!”. When the pandemic hit, traditional colleges and universities were abruptly forced to adapt their mindset and move toward thinking differently, scrambling to transform standard brick-and-mortar programs into online or hybrid delivery modalities. It helps leaders accomplish and achieve.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching? Why is that?

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 2, 2023

Today’s blog explores Regular and Substantive Interaction through a learning science-based approach to course design and instruction. According to Dr. Lara Boyd (2015) ,a neuroscientist and physical therapist at the University of British Columbia, “Every time you learn a new fact or skill, you change your brain.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2024

Certainly, as Palmer suggests, a key factor contributing to this superficiality is the tendency for leaders to ascend to their roles by demonstrating exceptional competency and efficiency in the external world. It’s easier to spend your life manipulating an institution than it is dealing with your own soul. It truly is.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2024

Certainly, as Palmer suggests, a key factor contributing to this superficiality is the tendency for leaders to ascend to their roles by demonstrating exceptional competency and efficiency in the external world. It’s easier to spend your life manipulating an institution than it is dealing with your own soul. It truly is.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

With the pandemic in full swing, universities everywhere rushed to stage visits virtually. I will keep the self promotion brief but for those of you who aren’t familiar with Echo Delta, we provide marketing services and enrollment consulting for smaller colleges and universities around the country. Webinar Summary.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Colin Riordan, Secretary General and Chief Executive Professor of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). Through PEBL we partnered with universities in East and West Africa to deliver online and blended learning, helping to meet demand for higher education.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Blogs EAB Strategic Advisory Services Extends Breadth and Depth of Coverage The challenges facing higher education have become increasingly complex and interconnected over the past 15 years and in many cases require the collective action of multiple cabinet leaders and divisions to make progress.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 15, 2023

The WCET Steering Committee Microcredentialing workgroup is a small and passionate group of higher education leaders and practitioners. This Frontiers blog is a result of those shared stories about opportunities and challenges. When your strategy is a wild success, what will be different for your learners and for your university?

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Coursera blog

JULY 19, 2023

If you’re ready to get started with any of these skills, you can find options from top universities and companies on Coursera. Or, you could ask your manager to bring Coursera to your team with Coursera for Teams ! The report also identifies the top 10 skills of 2023 , and skills that are on the rise.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Earlier this week, I focused on how the pandemic altered how academics work. Now, let’s talk about how academics and universities are changing to prepare students for the workforce. I’m drawing from new research from Coursera. The modern workplace now requires new skills.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Blogs Our partners implemented strategic advising campaigns at 40 schools in 27 states. Are your sophomore athletes falling behind? Are students on your campus repeating College Algebra and still not progressing through the curriculum successfully? Are the persistence rates of your transfer students lowering?

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EAB

MAY 25, 2023

Blogs Improve your program review process with these 4 data tips A Q&A with Dr. Louis Slimak, Associate Provost at West Virginia University In today’s fast-changing environment, program review is an increasingly critical area of focus and the first step in delivering a portfolio that meets the institution’s goals and students’ needs.

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