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After the Pandemic, Higher Education Can’t Afford to Go Back to ‘Normal’

Edsurge

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020), you will probably have these characteristics: "You see roadblocks as opportunities, and you have tons of creativity that keeps you from getting bored. Zodiac animal: Rat Rat in Chinese culture is associated with affluence, wealth, and surplus. If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

Neo LMS

billion by 2025, while the education sector will attract 15 million users. Despite its user base plateauing out in 2008, the company is now planning a second wind for Second Life with a laser focus on the educational terrain. Goldman Sachs recently estimated that virtual and augmented reality entertainment revenue will reach $3.2

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7 Days of Education Conference Fever Across the Pond

Edsurge

23-26): the companies who supply the tools, and the educators who use them; The Education Show (Jan. One teacher described The Education Show as “a ghost town for companies who can’t afford Bett.” (A companies have always had a strong presence, and this year was no exception with Microsoft and Google having the largest stands.

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University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

The Hechinger Report

But in less than a decade, by 2025, students like Badalamente could expect to pay more than $100,000 per year, based on projections by The Hechinger Report using annual college cost growth rates from 2008 to 2018. The University of Chicago is projected to reach $103,248 by 2025 based on previous growth rates and its current tuition.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025. Economic recovery after the 2008 recession also reduced demand for equivalency degrees. That’s because two of the testing companies do not publicly disclose their results, nationally or by state.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. Trying to keep students in school.

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