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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). A meta-analysis of blended learning and technology use in higher education: From the general to the applied. Journal of Computing in Higher Education , 26 (1), 87-122.

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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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Here are 3 ways the international student landscape is changing

University Business

higher education fights to keep its revenue afloat, recruitment strategies used by other countries to attract their own robust cohorts of international students pose a challenge. received the most Chinese students of any country , anchored by a 41% increase from the 2017-18 academic year to the 2021-22 academic year. As the U.S.

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

University Business

First-generation college students are among higher education’s most prominent yet precarious student demographics. ” 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.

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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

From The Campus, Times Higher Education In this post, Nikki Stuart and Lauren Johnston-Smith describe how MOOCs required us to rethink how to create open and free courses that would engage large numbers of learners. Our partnership with Coursera was quickly followed by partnerships with edX and FutureLearn.