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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

Edsurge

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. In essence, these opinions reflect what many people in the hospitality industry thought before AirBnB, or what taxi drivers thought before Uber. Read more: Will AI replace teachers?

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Like any business, the edtech industry includes actors that prioritize profit. This is not a condemnation of edtech as much as it is an acknowledgement that edtech is a business.

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How Data Science Can Help You Create Better Customer Experiences

EdNews Daily

This study of data has now grown into a dedicated field and Data Science learning is becoming a sought-after career. Data Science leverages modern technologies like AI and machine learning in continuously adapting to various scenarios where security might be a concern. The education industry, like any other, is highly sophisticated.

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OPINION: Time for colleges to help solve the affordability issue

The Hechinger Report

Instead of waiting for the federal government to address the student debt crisis or better hold schools accountable for tuition rates, let’s turn to the industry itself to tackle these challenges. Employing this method with schools is the way to help higher education’s affordability issue. We can move more expeditiously.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. When you don’t have basic needs met, you can’t learn.”. “I I have literally hung up the phone and had to cry, because the problems are so deep,” Ward said. Seventy percent said they were falling behind.

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Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future

The Hechinger Report

Rensselaer Polytech language students learn Mandarin Chinese by conversing with AI avatars. Even though the biggest leap forward of the last few decades, for example — delivering courses online — appears to have lowered costs , the graduation rates of online higher education remain much lower than those of programs taught in person.

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