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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Impact of AI on Higher Education Content Marketing Tactics By the time you read this, it could be old news — that’s how fast the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving. It’s not surprising then that LLMs had an immediate effect on the way some marketing content is being created in the higher ed industry.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Making Higher Education Work for All Students A Conversation With Becky Takeda-Tinker, President, Colorado State University Global bridget Thu, 09/14/2023 - 06:00 Higher Ed Leadership Remote Learning Weekly Wisdom Online learning became a critical component for many institutions during COVID. He never could stay in class.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is an HBCU and the only public institution of higher education in the Nation’s capital. VR-facilitated learning can offer students the opportunity to engage across the four phases of experiential learning, improving educational and clinical outcomes. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Chapter 3: Ford, D.Y.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is an HBCU and the only public institution of higher education in the Nation’s capital. VR-facilitated learning can offer students the opportunity to engage across the four phases of experiential learning, improving educational and clinical outcomes. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

It is strange to remember a time before I communicated so habitually through email, the first time I used an academic search engine, or ventured into a virtual learning environment.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s higher education students are increasingly digitally savvy, accustomed to technology being woven into every facet of their lives. In today’s fast-paced academic environment, instructors are often hard-pressed for time to provide comprehensive feedback to each student. This can be an advantage for instructors.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Because the primary mission of most institutions of higher education is to serve students, it’s easy to understand why attention to faculty and staff well-being was considered a lower priority. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being, and why should higher education pay attention?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Because the primary mission of most institutions of higher education is to serve students, it’s easy to understand why attention to faculty and staff well-being was considered a lower priority. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being, and why should higher education pay attention?

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s higher education students are increasingly digitally savvy, accustomed to technology being woven into every facet of their lives. In today’s fast-paced academic environment, instructors are often hard-pressed for time to provide comprehensive feedback to each student. This can be an advantage for instructors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Demographic changes have led to an increasing number of Latinx students attending higher education.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Recent press (including this from the NYT ), in part the reason for the delay in issuing this second of four short articles, have highlighted how deeply unpopular the concept of an immersive working environment in the Metaverse actually may prove to be. Nonetheless, we should discuss what is currently accessible for educators.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Higher education is experiencing the worst talent crunch in recent memory—and it is particularly acute for IT departments. To compete in today’s cutthroat IT labor market, higher ed leaders must be aware of the latest labor market trends from higher ed and across industries to inform how they advertise jobs and recruit talent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

So fierce was their belief that it became a rallying cry and a major source of motivation for those of us willing to listen, believe, and commit ourselves to the pursuit of educational excellence. Education is the engine of opportunity. The only thing larger than our dream should be our imagination. Dr. Benjamin E.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

31 October · Episode 179 Beyond Ideas: Implementing Innovative Structures in Higher Education 38 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Implementing innovative structures in higher education is not an option; it's a necessity. President Mantella's approach is a how-to guide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. Also, it’s the environment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Agbomi’s interest areas involve tissue engineering, which will be her research for graduate school. “I We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.” She looks forward to learning more about the human brain and giving back to the communities that have helped her.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Agbomi’s interest areas involve tissue engineering, which will be her research for graduate school. “I We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.” She looks forward to learning more about the human brain and giving back to the communities that have helped her.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. of all scientists and engineers employed full-time and16.7%

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Across many of our courses, Michigan’s global learners are seeking skills to prepare for the future of work and, in many cases, they are eager to practice these skills in low stakes environments. There are many forms of extended reality. We aim to share effective approaches with others more broadly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

If the media is to be believed, the future of the senior diversity officer in higher education is bleak. Although UC has provided pathways to social mobility for countless Californians, those efforts took place over the past three decades in environments that were often hostile to equity and inclusion. But is it really?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Speaking with Times Higher Education , he said geopolitical tension was a top challenge for his university and others on the island nation, which straddles cultures and languages and is heavily reliant on business ties with both the U.S. How do we respond and react to this?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

We focus on understanding the molecular behavior of model compounds related to energy and human health. Research is an effective on-ramp to data-driven careers, especially when research mentors make an intentional effort to foster supportive and inclusive environments in their labs and research groups.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Within community colleges, some programs of study are loosely defined, especially in the humanities, or were never designed to lead to transfer, as in the case of applied associate degrees. Examples of associate degrees included are manufacturing engineering technology, hospitality management, cardiac sonography and cybersecurity.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Based on your research, what recommendations do you have for better-supporting students as they navigate online college environments and experiences? Connection to the mission of ACPA’s OEE (Written by Virginia Byrne) First, Dr. Tanksley’s 2022 article is MUST READ for everyone in Higher Education and Student Affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“They forge stunning forms of artistic expression from ancestral and regional traditions, heighten our attention to the natural world, improve how we process massive flows of information for the common good, and deepen understanding of systems shaping our environment.”

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Though the 28 laureates in attendance this year gave and listened to each other’s talks with optimistic titles such as “Computing for Social Good,” Inside Higher Ed took the opportunity to ask them questions about computer science’s challenges in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Or to take some other examples of high ROI fields: “Those with a bachelor’s degree in #architecture and #engineering have median lifetime earnings of $3.8 No surprise: computers, math, healthcare practice, architecture, engineering, and business. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where?

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. It will avoid crowd enthusiasms, fads, and panics; and take advantage of humans who act emotionally. It will solve all its technical problems.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

If we look rearward, we see that a series of utterly unpredictable developments in the last decade and a half left an indelible imprint on higher education today. Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

I have been told that this is a vestige from a time when early scholars had a nook in their sleeves to keep their hands warm in unheated medieval environments. Much of the early history of grades in American higher education was associated with creating a way to determine which student would give that speech. and Canada.

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idfive agency

APRIL 8, 2022

Here are some of the most interesting, innovative, and, most importantly, impactful ways that higher education is working to create a more just and inclusive world. As they study to become research scientists or engineers, Myerhoff Scholars can access a wide range of support services, mentoring, and peer involvement opportunities.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

As we know from the college rankings, higher education isn’t immune from the tyranny of metrics and the incentives to distort or omit data. Two phrases sum up his argument: “Uncertainty in factual judgments is an inevitable aspect of the human condition” and “ all evidence involves statistical inference.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, examined the data and metrics colleges and universities are using—or should explore going forward—to gauge the value they provide to their students and other constituents. We have data from the U.S.

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