Post-Secondary
Post-secondary is a shifting space — four year degrees may not always be the fit and new alternatives are being created at an alarming rate. This topic encompasses everything from higher ed to adult learning and workforce pipelines and development.
Digital Promise and Facebook Developing New Micro-Credentials Program
Digital skills are skyrocketing in demand. More than 8 in 10 middle-skill jobs (82%) require digital skills, and tech companies everywhere often have trouble finding suitable candidates. A new initiative of Digital Promise and Facebook is looking to change that.
New Partnership Empowers Educators to Excel
A new partnership between K12 Inc. and Southern New Hampshire University will create a new masters degree aimed at educators teaching in online or blended settings and promises to advance excellence in K-12 online teaching.
ASU Prep Digital: Empowering Students
Online learning provides students around the world with access and opportunities that they may not have had available otherwise--advanced courses, more electives and world languages, and a different approach to a challenging topic. ASU Prep Digital is a great example.
How Writing Teachers Can Help Revolutionize Higher Education
By: Denise Wydra. We’re drowning HigherEd students in content at the expense of the thinking skills they need for success outside the classroom. Here's one example of how we can change that.
3 Texting Tips to Nudge Incoming HigherEd Students to Success
By: Brian Kathman. From completing college applications to registering for classes to applying for financial aid, students have an entire maze to navigate before their first day of class. Here's one way to help.
Learn to Earn: The Entrepreneurship Education Landscape
Entrepreneurship education for adults is gaining momentum, and it has taken some interesting shapes. Here's what we found in a recent survey of leading entrepreneurship programs.
10 Current and Emerging Trends in Adult Learning
We live in a world where the unexpected is the norm, and the only thing we can really be sure of in the future is that change will occur rapidly. What does this mean for adult learning? Here are 10 current and emerging trends.
Great EdTech Success Story Turns Into The Biggest Philanthropic Story of the Year
Curriculum Associates' original gift to Iowa State University has been turned into a new endowment that will more than triple scholarship dollars available to award by the college and help accelerate innovations in teaching and research.
Top 10 Highlights of the 2017 NMC Horizons Report: HigherEd Edition
Six key trends, six significant challenges and six developments in educational technology are profiled in the latest NMC Horizons Report as poised to impact teaching, learning and creative inquiry in higher education. Here are the highlights
Creating Change-Agents: The Intersection of Critical Thinking and Student Agency
By: Jenny Pieratt. As educators, we know that in order to develop the next generation with the skills to innovate and improve our world we can no longer teach students what to think. We must teach them how to think.