Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus Last week, we were honored to host Coursera’s Future of Higher Education Summit 2023, with delegates from more than 20 countries at our Silicon Valley headquarters. Learning experiences can be more personalized, interactive, and accessible.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus Last week, we were honored to host Coursera’s Future of Higher Education Summit 2023, with delegates from more than 20 countries at our Silicon Valley headquarters. Learning experiences can be more personalized, interactive, and accessible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Beth Schueler University of Virginia Policy debate is a competitive activity in which students engage in structured argumentation about public policy issues, often requiring in-depth learning about policy areas.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’. Famously, after the Second World War IBM’s President said, ‘I think there is a world market for about five computers.’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

student in higher education administration at Morgan State, an HBCU in Maryland, said he does not see that as a career goal, but he has seen a shift in higher education that makes his skill set more desirable in a president. “He HBCUs help students to really think about the fact that you can center your Blackness.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

This hype is due to several reasons such as meeting established standards and offering high-quality academic programs, enhancing reputation worldwide and attracting more students, increasing credibility, funding opportunities, and inviting global recognition. What is the Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain?

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Dominique Turner Institution: Morgan State University Graduate Program: Higher Education Administration Education: B.S., Government/Political Science, Bowie State University; MPA, Management and Public Policy, Bowie State University; Graduate Certificate, Project Management, Bowie State University Mentors: Rev.

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PeopleAdmin

AUGUST 31, 2023

PeopleAdmin Wins Best Higher Education Solution in Tech Edvocate Awards Austin, TX – August 31, 2023 – PeopleAdmin , the leading provider of solutions for higher education, has been named a winner of the 7th Annual Tech Edvocate Awards , earning the title of Best Higher Education Solution for the second year in a row.

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SRHE

JANUARY 6, 2023

Prospective university students were in a similar position, being expected to make a cost-conscious decision about their degree education with limited understanding of their options. In research conducted for my PhD, I invited first-year students to participate in focus groups to explore their orientations to their degree.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The government of Australia has announced a ‘Universities Accord’ designed to build a long-term plan for the country’s higher education system. Minister for Education Jason Clare noted it is the “first broad review” of the system since the Bradley Review in 2008.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies and University Clerk at Kingston University. Understandably, the Office for Students are prepping for the new regulatory powers the Bill will give them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: Professor Emeritus, Educational Policy and Leadership The Ohio State University Anne S. Pruitt-Logan is professor emeritus of educational policy and leadership at the Ohio State University. From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Saleema is one of more than 126,000 students, including nearly 17,000 refugees, studying at this tuition-free, nonprofit online university with an all-volunteer faculty.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the work of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education has expanded, several institutions have recognized the need to create a clearer and more comprehensive pathway for individuals interested in serving as DEI advocates and leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Although the data represents only about 20% of non-profit colleges and universities, those institutions own about 99% of the endowment wealth in higher education, according to calculations by Dr. Sarah M. Kimball, professor emeritus of educational studies at the Ohio State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Psychology explains that humans frequently make decisions guided by short-term rewards rather than long-term rewards, and they are likely to discount delayed events. Therefore, in the postsecondary education arena, institutional decision-makers respond to short-term budgeting rewards.

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over the last twelve months, institutions have scrambled to not only better understand generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on teaching and learning, but also to determine the best ways to provide guardrails and guidance for faculty, staff, and students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The FAFSA Simplification Act, scheduled to go into effect this year, will cut the number of questions on the notoriously difficult application for federal aid—which is also used in calculations for state and institutional awards—from 108 to 36 for most students. The consequences for students and their families could be serious.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Forty-one years had passed since Howard graduated from the school, but his formative years as a student there radically transformed his life and set him on the path to becoming the world class scholar that he is today. Those shifting demographics are broadly reflected in today’s student population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Dramatic changes are coming to the education program at Michigan State University (MSU), a response both to student needs and a nationwide teacher shortage. In 2021, students sent a letter to the provost expressing their qualms about the financial and mental burdens. They don't come back to complete student teaching.”

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

by Tej Nathwani Introduction As SRHE noted in their summary of the theme of the 2022 conference , one of the current areas of discussion is the relationship between student mobility and outcomes. High levels of inequality and poor growth are two key concerns for the UK economy. Feedback on our mobility marker is most welcome.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Naturally, one of the questions being increasingly asked of the UK higher education sector is how it is helping to resolve some of the latter issues. The uses of data on deprivation in higher education One of the ways in which providers seek to improve equality of opportunity in education is through outreach activity.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“With the economy shifting … we need workforce education training faster and better,” said James Fong, chief research officer at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). But there is good news, too.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Universities in the UK, Australia and Canada have announced staff layoffs and course suspensions as government policies limiting international student numbers cause increasing financial strain.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The PIE caught up with industry leaders across international and higher education to find out their predictions for 2024. While 2023 celebrated artificial intelligence, 2024 will celebrate human intelligence, predicts ETS CEO, Amit Sevak. “In 2024, major paradigm shifts in how we learn and work will accelerate.

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HEPI

APRIL 14, 2024

She said, ‘Tony’s work on funding, student contributions and pensions was complex and politically difficult, but he was hugely knowledgeable and intellectually incisive, so he did it all with aplomb’. As the then Director of Communications, Lesley Perry put it, ‘every policy department in public services should have a Tony Bruce.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved. It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. We committed to a second phase of the project (HS2) through legislation in the Higher Education and Research Act in 2017. But now we need to change course.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Melissa Fuesting, senior survey researcher for the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), the pandemic cannot be solely to blame. There were similar decreases, paired with limited recoveries, for full-time non-tenure track faculty, part-time faculty, and graduate student employees.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. Accountability comes in many forms: to state or governing agencies, students, key performance indicators, operating measures, and more.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

While higher education leaders may say they’re optimistic about AI and open to integrating it into their institutions’ operations, studying their usage of the revolutionary tool draws a more cautious picture. As deep in the weeds AI education may get, Morris relates each of these facets to traits that are positively human.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Image: As recently as a decade ago, the concept of “value” rarely found its way into discussions about federal policy making about higher education. Many students struggle to complete, and a lot of programs and colleges vary, sometimes significantly, in the returns their students see.

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