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With all of the hoopla about the declining ROI of a college degree and the move to short-term credentials that can lead to increased wages, it was surprising to read…

My recent posts about Upskilling and Reskilling, Top Skills for Future Jobs, and A Two Year Review of Workforce Education left me thinking about how workers market their education, skills,…

Last week, Inside Higher Ed released a print on demand compilation titled Compilation on Measuring the Value of Higher Education. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with Inside Higher…

One of the newsletters that I regularly read is Workforce Monitor. In July, Editor-in-Chief George Lorenzo published A Review of Workforce Education, 2020 to 2022: Two Years of Enormous Change.…

With more than 830 million members in 200 countries and territories, LinkedIn’s data about the jobs that its members occupy are as current as the frequency by which its members…

Throughout the years, I have enjoyed reading some of the detailed education research reports from BMO Capital Markets Corp. analyst Jeffrey Silber. His recently issued paper, The Upskilling and Reskilling…

This past week, Quality Matters and Eduventures released their annual survey of Chief Online Officers. The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) survey has been conducted for a few years.…

Last week, I quickly posted an article about the student loan forgiveness proposal from President Biden. I posted nine issues that represented my first thoughts about the proposal. Here are…

Yesterday, the White House announced a final Covid-19 related extension of the suspension of student loan repayments through December 31, 2022 as well as the long-awaited campaign promise of President…

Author and journalist Will Bunch’s introduction in After the Ivory Tower Falls provides an overview of his book in three sentences: “More than a half century after the baby booms…

In my recent article discussing the Daedalus issue on Artificial Intelligence and Society, I mentioned that the issue’s editors had organized the papers submitted in several different categories. The Michael…

I have been a fan and a subscriber to Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, for many years. In 2021, the journal became an open-source…

The headline of a recent Washington Post article by Hannah Natanson read “‘Never seen it this bad’: America faces catastrophic teacher shortage.” Ms. Natanson sets the stage by reporting that…

The National Student Clearinghouse issued a report last week titled Credit Accumulation and Completion Rates Among First Year Students. The report was constructed by using data from the Clearinghouse’s Postsecondary…

When I read a recent article in Tech & Learning about OER Commons, it stimulated my interest in writing an article about how far the OER movement has progressed. Open…