The Washington Post published columnist George Will’s opinion piece in the June 28, 2023 issue is about the alarming decline of K-12 becoming a dominant issue in next year’s elections. After reminding readers that this is the 40th anniversary of the “alarming report” A Nation at Risk, Mr. Will made several notable points: The National […]
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I have written about the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and its strategic plan Building a Talent Strong Texas (also formerly known as 60X30TX). In addition to striving to have one of the highest postsecondary completion rates among states in the U.S., the THECB’s student debt goals stand out for their transparency and focus […]
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The June 20th issue from Edtech Insiders provided a number of interesting facts or predictions. P&S Intelligence predicts that the “AI-in-education” global market is expected to grow from approximately $2 billion in 2022 to more than $25 billion in 2030. North America currently accounts for 42 percent of the market’s expenditures. Edtech Insiders recently launched […]
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Not all that long ago, my 92-year-old mother suggested that our family host a reunion of all the living descendants of her parents, Lloyd T. Widdowson, Sr. and Christena Metz Widdowson. Even though not everyone was able to attend, I thought the turnout was great. Based on a conversation I had with one of my […]
Coursera recently announced the publication of its fifth annual global skills report. The report draws on data from Coursera’s 120 million plus global learners. It’s not a surprise that Coursera’s CEO, Jeff Maggioncalda, wrote that “digital transformation, automation, and globalization are reshaping the labor market and creating an unprecedented need for reskilling and upskilling.” Mr. […]
When the Department of Education issued its Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) on May 17, I assumed that it was largely about the revisions to Gainful Employment. However, a June 2nd article written by Inside Higher Ed’s Katherine Knott exposed that the 1,000 plus pages of proposed regulations has the potential to gut the NC-SARA […]
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The June 7 issue of Inside Higher Ed published a Liam Knox article about a bill proposed in Ohio’s legislature that would require public colleges and universities to provide information about the cost of their degree programs and the expected wages that graduates of their programs would earn. The bill would require Ohio’s public colleges […]
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It isn’t often that a report organized in the form of 34 slides impresses me for its breadth versus brevity. Then again, there aren’t many global consulting firms as large as EY. In a report issued in early 2022 titled The Future of Higher Education Report, EY’s consultants set the stage for today’s learner/worker environment […]
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I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine about the future of instruction and learning post ChatGPT. Not sure that we had covered all the possible ways that teachers could or should modify their instruction, I decided to pose a question or two to ChatGPT4. Below are the questions/prompts and the responses. With […]
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I met the founder and CEO of Nearpeer, Dustin Manocha, about a year ago. We met in person for the first time at the ASU/GSV Summit this year. Nearpeer is an app designed to engage college students with their peers so that they can build friendships and a support network since social media is not […]
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