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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. Graduate students’ needs are focused on financing their education and financial support for conference travel. Additionally, their purchasing power of $3.4 trillion in 2021 comes with 4.7% annual growth, while non-Latinos experienced only 1.9%.

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Inquiring Minds Want to Know…About Social, Cognitive, and Teacher Presence Online

The Scholarly Teacher

Growth mindset leads to greater effort and persistence in learners which helps them reach higher levels of achievement (Dweck & Molden, 2017). New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education , 2006 (109), 5- 13. Distance Education , 39 (3), 281–298. Fostering authentic relationships in the transformative classroom.

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This program dedicated to boosting first-gen success rates is tripling down

University Business

.” The Kessler Scholars Collaborative embarked on a mission in 2017 to support this vulnerable slice of the student body at a handful of esteemed institutions, and its pilot program proved a success. At Johns Hopkins, students experienced a 100% first-to-second-year persistence rate.

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“With the economy shifting … we need workforce education training faster and better,” said James Fong, chief research officer at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA).

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Enhancing the student learning experience via social media

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Some colleagues who have an interest in technology-enhanced learning joined the team, and we spent two years rigorously synthesising the literature on social media in nursing and midwifery education (O’Connor et al, 2017). A mixed study systematic review of social media in nursing and midwifery education: protocol. Joliffe, S.,

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How MOOCs helped a centuries-old institution change its ways

Teaching Matters Online Learning

In 2017, we embarked on what seemed like the next logical step in our journey: creating a microcredential, a collection of MOOCs that, when taken together, provide the learner with deeper learning outcomes and in some cases university credit. Our partnership with Coursera was quickly followed by partnerships with edX and FutureLearn.

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Costs and Benefits of Adding 30-units to Accounting Students' Requirements for Licensure as a CPA

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

2016 – 2017. 2017 - 2018. In June 2022, Ernst & Young was sanctioned by the SEC amid charges that dozens of its audit staff cheated on an ethics exam required for continuing education and withheld evidence during the investigation. Bachelor’s. BS & MS. 2014 – 2015. 79,174. -. -. 2015 – 2016. 2018 – 2019.