October 2018

Originally Posted On: news.fiu.edu Some skills are considered too “small” or specific to become a degree program and aren’t often listed on a student’s academic transcript. Yet, it’s a collection of these very skills that employers know are a big deal in the rapidly-changing 21st century workforce. This is where badges come in. These digital icons […]

Originally Posted On: edsource.org No degree means diminished opportunities, study finds Millions of Californians who began their college education but never finished deserve special support and policy changes to help get them across the finish line later in life, a new report urges. The study from the non-partisan California Competes organization estimates that 4 million Californians,

Originally Posted On: technologyreview.com Online versions of college courses are attracting hundreds of thousands of students, millions of dollars in funding, and accolades from university administrators. Is this a fad, or is higher education about to get the overhaul it needs? Written By: Nicholas Carr A hundred years ago, higher education seemed on the verge of a

Originally Posted On: informationweek.com Amazon recently proved it isn’t infallible when it shut down a human resources system that was systematically biased against women. However, there’s more to the story that today’s enterprise leaders should know. When people talk about machine learning masters, Amazon is always top-of-mind. For more than two decades, the company’s recommendation capabilities

Originally Posted On: vice.com High schoolers are weighing the benefits of blue-collar trades at a time when well-paying jobs—and no debt—are hard to pass up. This story appears in VICE Magazine’s Power and Privilege Issue. Click HEREto subscribe. On a recent Wednesday morning, about 20 students at Queens Technical High School marched into a supply

Originally Posted On: singularityhub.com It’s common to hear phrases like ‘machine learning’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ and believe that somehow, someone has managed to replicate a human mind inside a computer. This, of course, is untrue—but part of the reason this idea is so pervasive is because the metaphor of human learning and intelligence has been

Originally Posted On: chronicle.com Written By: Sara Goldrick-Rab and Michelle Miller-Adams Separate reports released this week by respected Washington-based think tanks miss the mark on the free-college question. The Education Trust’s “A Promise Fulfilled”and the Institute for Higher Education Policy’s analyses of two statewide college Promise programs reach the same conclusion: Free college is failing low-income

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Steve Wright Information Communication Technologies-Digital Media Sector Navigator California Community Colleges [email protected] ROCKLIN, Calif. — There’s never been a better time to enter the IT workforce, as thousands of high paying jobs remain unfilled across California. A new initiative at California’s Community College is making it easier than ever for people with

Originally Posted On: chronicle.com Written By: Cathy N. Davidson In a recent Chronicle Review essay with the clickbait headline (which the authors did not write) “Why the University’s Insatiable Appetite Will Be Its Undoing,” Adam Daniel and Chad Wellmon, respectively an administrator and a professor at the University of Virginia, argue that the university should be