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In 2011 a group of academics published a short, provocative, and thoughtful Manifesto for Teaching Online. They updated it in 2016, and now this year MIT Press brought out their work in book form. On June 10th the Future Trends ...
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For nearly a decade I’ve been tracking one higher education enrollment trend. Since 2012 the total number of students taking classes in American colleges and universities has declined. It’s a steady trend, with the c...
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Last Friday night a high profile American comedian and tv host presented a criticism of higher education. In a little more than six minutes Bill Maher took academia to task for a range of problems. I find this critique useful in...
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Last week I posted about a dozen times to Facebook. One of those posts caught the attention of that site’s content management operations. I’d like to share that experience here as an example of Facebook’s fumbl...
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Today I’m going to describe a key datapoint in higher education. To do so I need to explain a deep weirdness in how students pay for American college and university classes. Many people have a hard time grasping this stran...
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What questions should we ask an expert in government education and technology policy? To explain: this Thursday from 2-3 pm EDT Jarret Cummings, senior advisor for policy and government relations for EDUCAUSE, will be our guest on...
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How can we use games and gamification in teaching and learning? Last week professor Karl Kapp joined the Future Trends Forum to explore this subject. The conversation took off quickly as Karl raised ideas and the Forum community h...
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Three years ago I pondered when the first college or university would charge $100,000 or more per year to attend. What does that 2018 probe into the future look like in 2021? To give a little background: in that 2018 post I was lo...
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American fertility shrank in 2020, according to a new Centers for Disease Control report. In this post I’ll break down what that means, and what it implies for the future of education. Overall, the number of children born in...
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How did college and university enrollment fare in spring 2021, during the pandemic? The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has a new report on the topic, continuing their close examination of the past year. This is v...