What if faculty’s role was less about subject matter expertise, and more about student learning expertise – working to personalize content delivery based on the individual learning profile of each student?

Reported by Education Dive, Maryville University President Mark Lombardi is going all-in on personalized learning, using learning diagnostics and life coaches to make sure the university is customizing the educational journey for each student.

What did free community college do for four-year institutions?

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, two years into the Oregon Promise program, which provided Oregon students with tuition-free community college, there was a 4.2% increase in community college enrollment and a 2.9% enrollment decline at the state’s 4-year colleges.

Should computational thinking be taught outside the lab?

Reported by EdSurge, Tom Hammond from Lehigh University believes that like critical thinking, computational thinking should be brought into every classroom and serves as a great hands-on way to make learning come to life.

Does your university have an enrollment strategy for Africa?

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, many colleges and universities aren’t considering how important Africa will be as a political, economic, and enrollment player in the future.

Students with a growth mindset are getting better grades.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a recent study by the Center for Community College Student Engagements shows that students who think they can improve their intelligence in a particular course do indeed go ahead and do so.

What will autonomous vehicles mean for higher ed?

Reported by EdSurge, while a bachelor’s degree in Tesla may not yet be on the horizon, the autonomous vehicle industry is absolutely going to influence higher ed degree programs in the near future.

Where do College Board and ACT live in a test-optional world?

Reported by EdSurge, with more and more institutions going test-optional in their admission requirements, the College Board, which runs the SAT, and ACT are trying to carve out new positionings away from single-test score assessments (that may not be powerful indicators of success) toward broader measurement framework capabilities that may more accurately predict student outcomes.

Would competency-based hiring put competency-based learning back in the spotlight?

Reported by EdSurge, more and more HR managers are exploring and championing this concept of competency-based or skills-based hiring. And this could move us away from the degree being the primary signal of a new candidate’s talent, and more toward skills alignment to a company or specific position.

Boston University is halving the cost of their online MBA through a partnership with EdX.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the new MOOC version of their master’s in business administration through EdX has a sticker price of $24,000, less than half of their traditional MBA.

Is Amazon going to “educate” 100,000 of their employees, or merely “retrain” them?

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Amazon announced they will spend $700 million dollars over the next six years retraining their frontline workers whose positions may be eliminated by automation.