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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

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According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025. Yet a 2015 report by Universities Canada found that less than half of Canadian universities have a strategy to adopt digital technologies.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15 percent after the year 2025 . High cost of dropping out.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

In doing so, he joined more than 108,000 other students who withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015 with thousands of dollars in federal student debt but no degree. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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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

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. In 2015, RAND Corporation found that in 62 schools using personalized learning strategies, students progressed faster than their peers.

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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

The Hechinger Report

Because people had fewer children during the last recession in 2008, the number of 18-year-olds graduating from high school is expected to fall again nationally after 2025 by 11 to 15 percent, according to estimates by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education , or WICHE, and Carleton College economist Nathan Grawe.

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