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Long Life Learning – Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet

December 22, 2020 Wally Boston

Given Dr. Weise’s background as an English professor, it is not a surprise that the title of her book, Long Life Learning, is a clever play on the more familiar term, Life-Long Learning.

Current Events

Zoom Social Hours

December 21, 2020 Wally Boston

A couple of weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, I received a group email from a doctoral classmate of mine.

Economy

Ipsos Survey for World Economic Forum Indicates Shifted Expectations for Online Higher Ed

December 2, 2020 Wally Boston

On behalf of the World Economic Forum, global marketing research firm Ipsos surveyed 27,500 adults in 29 countries on how they see higher education being delivered in five years.

Accountability

Grand Challenges in Assessment: Collective Issues in Need of Solutions

November 16, 2020 Wally Boston

In a recently issued paper, co-authors Karen Singer-Freeman and Christine Robinson report the results of their project to identify the grand challenges for assessment in higher education.

Business of Education

Fall 2020 Higher Ed Enrollment Updated

November 13, 2020 Wally Boston

The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) has provided monthly updates of Fall 2020 college enrollments. The most recent update reports enrollment as of October 22 and the percentage of institutions reporting enrollment data has increased from 54 percent to 76 percent.

Business of Education

Gainful Employment Regulations Are Good, if Applied to All Institutions

November 10, 2020 Wally Boston

When the Gainful Employment regulations were first proposed by the Obama administration in 2010, I stated that they might be reasonable if they applied to all institutions of higher education.

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