Coursera blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Q1: Hello Muhammad, we’re thrilled to hear your thoughts and perspectives. Riphah International University, located in Pakistan, is a private educational institution with over 25,000 students spread across multiple campuses. The university took proactive measures to rapidly scale up its digital infrastructure.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

But I thought it was a great synergy. President Blake has proposed a four-pillar strategy for the shared aspirations of Georgia State: research and innovation; student success; college to careers; and identity and placemaking. A Thousand Flowers Blooming. A Conversation With M. Brian Blake, President, Georgia State University.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. On there, you will see a new blog entry by one of your own Professors, Paul Ashwin, Head of Department here for Educational Research.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Stephen Drew , RNL’s new Chief AI Officer, and I recently sat down for a discussion I entitled “Why won’t we solve today’s challenges without AI.” This reframing of my seminal question provides insight to the thoughtfulness that Stephen brings to RNL and was covered in our blog last month , which also covered: 1) What is AI?

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

HEPI has marked the event with a Policy Note on the influence of the Robbins Report and a blog series – you can access all the material here. The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. The Times Were A-Changin! A Capital Idea?

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick takes aim at research universities for being too big, too focused on students and too uninterested in grand ideas. Maybe not a new Robbins report but something close. We need the same effort now.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It was an idea that we were already pushing around inside the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. I’m not completely sure anyone wants or needs another round in the HEPI / Wonkhe (or more accurately Hillman / Leach) debate on student number controls. Tea with Jeremy: Student number controls and the Cabinet Secretary.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Leading With Informed Optimism While President Randall was appointed to his current position in August 2021, making him a relative newcomer compared to many other higher education leaders, he's hardly a newcomer at the University of Utah. He also told us: "I come from a line of three generations of faculty members here at the University of Utah.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This blog is provided by Professor Sir Malcolm Grant and Mary Curnock Cook CBE. The Higher Education & Research Act 2017 (HERA) was conceived in a different policy age. The Higher Education & Research Act 2017 (HERA) was conceived in a different policy age.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Dr Jonathan Grant, founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research. We are currently running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a series of blogs.

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HEPI

MARCH 1, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne Cost-of-living and student welfare have dominated the UK headlines of late, with the cost of food, energy and accommodation outpacing maintenance support. 1] The picture painted wasn’t pretty. The cost of leisure activities has also surged.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 14, 2023

Through our research, we're leaders. When I became provost, I thought, 'I don't know how to be a provost. All I really know how to do is run a research group.' So I acted like I was running my research group. As she put it, "I really like doing science." Faculty is a leadership role.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JANUARY 19, 2024

Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed A Conversation With Lisa Vollendorf, President, SUNY Empire State bridget Thu, 01/25/2024 - 06:00 Image Higher Ed Leadership Inside Higher Ed Weekly Wisdom At the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), we like hearing the thoughts of higher education leaders at all levels of experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In an email response to my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” David Lewis took me to task for not doing the necessary research to answer the questions posed. David is also co-editor of the Journal of Electronic Publishing.) First, I’d like to ask you about careers.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Peter Horrocks, Chair of postgraduate online learning provider, Learna. Prior to that he was at the BBC, where he held roles including Head of Current Affairs, Head of TV News and Head of the Multimedia Newsroom. Peter was formerly the Vice-Chancellor of the Open University.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I don't think any of my undergraduate or graduate school professors taught in ways that teaching centers prescribe. No innovative forms of assessment. No interactive lectures. Not much active learning, let alone flipped classrooms. No learning objectives. No careful sequence of activities.

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SRHE

APRIL 25, 2023

by Rob Cuthbert, SRHE News Editor The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has decided to investigate the OfS. What is the nature of the relationship between the OfS and the Government? The first three questions nail it: Are the OfS’ statutory duties clear and appropriate? of the blame.”

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Last week, HEPI published a new Policy Note on the Robbins Report and this blog is in a series we are running to mark the 60th anniversary of the Report’s publication in October 1963 – you can access them all here. It was soon realised that a fresh review of higher education would be needed.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Garnett Stokes , President at University of New Mexico. She joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about the mindset of accepting new leadership challenges, the responsibilities of institutional leaders as employers, required skills for effective leadership, and navigating the small world of higher ed.

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HEPI

JULY 2, 2023

This HEPI blog article was kindly contributed by Kortext and Jisc , and is based on an interview with Liam Earney , Managing Director of Higher Education and Research at Jisc. But it is a little more nuanced than that… For this to be successful, implementation must be carefully thought through and planned.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

By now you’ve likely seen the hubbub over ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new chat bot trained on their large language model AI GPT 3.5. To begin, this introductory blog post will focus on an overview of large language model AIs and their potential impact on higher education. Definitions. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I live my life according to a series of mantras. A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. One of which is this: “We must look backward to move forward.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Bradford DeLong. Worries that the future will be worse than the present are an excellent reason to read economic histories such as Bradford DeLong’s new book, Slouching Towards Utopia. Published in September 2022.

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HEPI

JUNE 1, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ken Sloan, the Vice-Chancellor and CEO of Harper Adams University. I welcome the recent paper by Edward Venning Size is Everything: What Small, Specialist and Practice Based Providers tell us about the Higher Education Sector (HEPI Report 160).

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2023

Willis, President, Howard Community College Alan Thu, 06/15/2023 - 06:00 Community College Higher Ed Leadership Inside Higher Ed Weekly Wisdom The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is always honored when previous Weekly Wisdom Podcast guests return to share their growth and insights. I've gotten my cuts and bruises from that.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation I’m driving my colleagues crazy with my constant worrying about the new normal of higher ed work. These thoughts about the benefits of pre-pandemic academic work life may be true. But we must remember that many of the norms that governed higher ed work pre-COVID were not all that great.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I have been fortunate to have a perch on which to write about a host of highly charged issues that matter a great deal to me. No subject has been off-limits and no one has ever threatened to censor or water down my perspective. Which means I should not flinch when really tough issues arise.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 8, 2022

At The Change Leader, we propose a culture of continuous board improvement and accountability as a way to avoid the detrimental impact of stagnant governance. Furthermore, both the board and administration need to agree that innovation and growth are critical for the survival of the institution (and higher education).

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Nostalgia—the desire to turn back the clock and return to a seemingly superior past—can be healthy and even therapeutic, but it’s often a trap, a pathology and a temptation that must be resisted. In most cases, that imagined past turns out to be bogus. Nostalgia can be damaging.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I don’t know whether Outer Space is, as Star Trek tells us, the final frontier, but I know full well that physical space is among campus’ biggest sources of conflict. Where we park, where we teach, and whether we even have an office are among higher ed’s most contentious issues. Is that true?

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HEPI

JULY 21, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by GatenbySanderson , a people advisory firm which works with HE leaders. Their exposure to governing bodies is unrecognisable from what it once was and, depending on how their institution structures its professional services, they may have little or, in some cases no, on the ground support.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Launching or growing a mircocredential program requires coordination and thoughtful planning. This series explores microcredential adoption, implementation, and evaluation. With today’s post, our steering committee work group discusses the implementation stage of a microcredentialling program. Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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idfive agency

APRIL 8, 2022

And while efforts have taken many forms, none have become more visible and have built more momentum than the increasing efforts in business, government, and academia to address the issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). . Between the pandemic, political turmoil, and social unrest, it’s been a rough few years.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

I’ve been having trouble blogging lately. Part of it has been that I’ve spent the last two years heads-down, building a business. But now that I’m looking around, I don’t see much happening in EdTech. I can write about big trends that will affect education. Plenty is happening in that arena. I certainly am.)

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Dr. Drumm McNaughton discusses contemporary EdTech trends and predictions with Phil Hill, publisher of Phil on EdTech Blog and partner at MindWires LLC. In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast , listeners will gain an overview of how technology is reshaping the EdTech arena and the potential risks of the current state of OPMs.

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