Teaching a live synchronous class via video requires very different best practices than either traditional or online.

Reported by EdSurge, Dr. Bonni Stachowiak of Vanguard University recommends best practices like recommending your students all turn their webcams and microphones on, and take advantage of the “live” format to incorporate student participation and group activities like online polls and breakouts.

Two more Ivy League institutions are getting into the bootcamp game.

Reported by Education Dive, Yale’s summer session will offer a 10-week web development bootcamp. And Harvard is launching a 24-week part-time full-stack certificate program this Spring.

Reported by Education Dive, The University of Michigan, in an attempt to better shape their class, targeted 1,932 high-achieving low-income Michigan students with a scholarship offer through a mail campaign that spoke to how successful they could be at U-M.

Master’s programs have become more diverse than ever.

Reported by Education Dive, the number of distinct master’s fields granting more than 100 degrees a year has doubled from 289 to 514 between 1995 and 2017.

Between 2025 and 2029, fertility rate declines in the United States will have created a drop of nearly 15% in the college-age population.

Reported by EAB, this prediction from Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College, means that with more and more institutions fighting for a smaller population of students, establishing your unique positioning prior to this drop-off is essential.

Only 30% of students found the advice they received from their career services department helpful according to the 2018 Strada-Gallup Alumni survey.

Reported by EAB, this study also showed that students value career advice from their professors more than career services staff.

Discover Financial Services is employing Northern Illinois University undergraduate students on-campus.

Reported by Campus Technology, Discover has hired 36 students in Computer Science and Information Systems-related programs to work on mobile software and web applications on campus.

Amazon has made their Amazon Web Services internal training courses available for free.

Reported by Education Dive, the more than 30 AWS courses designed to train Amazon engineers on machine learning are now available to the public. This is great new for students looking to add an AWS certification to their resume, and this is great for Amazon – making it easy for engineers to learn to build on the Amazon cloud and help build the system up.

For students looking to enroll in courses not currently available at their institution, they may now be able to take that single course online with another.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the Council of Independent Colleges has launched the Online Course Sharing Consortium, where students from participating institutions can take individuals courses not being offered that term – online through other partner institutions and through a revenue share model between the two institutions.

At Trinity College of Connecticut, low-income students no longer need to apply for institutional aid every year, but are awarded a 4-year aid package based on their initial application.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the goal of this policy is to provide more certainty for low-income students, as well as reduce paperwork needs to make enrollment and persistence easier than ever.