Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 6, 2023
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced an abrupt shift to online learning, stakeholders expressed several concerns. Would students really be able to learn as well remotely as they had in-person? Now, more than three years after higher ed was thrown into upheaval, results are beginning to come in about the shift to online learning.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 6, 2024
I was at a conference, and the attendees were workshopping solutions for increasing digital learning capacity at their respective institutions. The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Rise of technology and online learning (late 1990s-2000s) The late 1990s and early 2000s marked a pivotal shift in higher education with the rise of digital technologies and the burgeoning of online learning platforms.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Much like everyone else, professors faced severe burnout during the pandemic amid constant adjustments to COVID protocols that required rapidly transitioning from in-person teaching to online learning. Throughout the pandemic much of the oneness to connect with students and meet them where they’re at has been put on professors.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced an emergency switch to online learning, students have embraced the modality for its flexibility and convenience. In a recent report by Bay View Analytics , 94% of community college students gave their online courses a passing grade, and 58% expressed a desire for more.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 30, 2023
A new study by Course Hero, an online learning platform for educators, suggests that a rise in job satisfaction among faculty has improved since the start of the pandemic. This includes a 20 percent gender pay gap among college administrators. Additionally, women college presidents experience a pay gap of under 10 percent.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 2, 2023
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. As in-person and hybrid learning resume, enrollment numbers have not returned to pre-COVID levels.
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