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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. They’re there to provide access to higher education to their communities.”

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Coursera convenes leaders from over 60 universities and companies for Future of Higher Education Summit

Coursera blog

Here are some of the key takeaways from two days of engaging panels, workshops, and peer-to-peer conversation: Student-centered experiences are critical to achieving positive outcomes Digital transformation, globalization, and demographic shifts are reshaping higher education.

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Coursera convenes leaders from over 60 universities and companies for Future of Higher Education Summit

Coursera blog

Here are some of the key takeaways from two days of engaging panels, workshops, and peer-to-peer conversation: Student-centered experiences are critical to achieving positive outcomes Digital transformation, globalization, and demographic shifts are reshaping higher education.

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Gamekeepers, poachers, policy wonks and knowledge

SRHE

The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it. Epistemology is something which academics in social science and humanities think and write a lot about – usually whole chapters in an 80,000-word thesis, and a field of study in its own right.

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Inside Higher Ed

“It has been the desire of many entrepreneurs, foundations and policy leaders that microcredentials will become the substitute for expensive degrees,” Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University, said. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. After UoPeople’s first seeking-accreditation visit in 2021, WSCUC commended the institution for “embracing innovative concepts in the use of technology, community, and infrastructure.” Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine.

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Making Higher Education Work for All Students

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

He would drop off his homework, stay for tests, and then drive off to his next job so that he could pay for college and graduate as an electrical engineer. Facing the realities of our own human limitations is part of that work.” We’re very consumer-driven as an online, technology-driven institution. He never could stay in class.