Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2022
All final 12 months, you learn, and we tallied. Now we’re able to reveal the highest increased schooling tales that EdSurge printed in 2022, based mostly on their reputation with you, our readers. We’ll do that countdown model, beginning with quantity 10 and dealing our technique to the highest article of the 12 months.
As these headlines mirror, the final 12 months introduced uncertainty, hypothesis and innovation to increased schooling. College directors, school, edtech leaders and college students tried to make sense of all of the adjustments they had been experiencing because of the lingering pandemic, the introduction of new expertise and the shifting financial system. In the midst of all that, professors and college students additionally shared insights about their experiences balancing educating and studying with the duties of their day by day lives.
Thanks for studying, and joyful new 12 months.
10. What a New Strategy at 2U Means for the Future of Online Higher Education
By Phil Hill
The pandemic transfer to distant studying has elevated the significance of on-line diploma applications for faculties, which they typically administer with exterior corporations known as Online Program Management entities. Market analyst Phil Hill explored how shifts within the OPM business, reminiscent of decreasing tuition prices and providing faculties extra customizable service packages, might form increased ed.
9. What Could Web3 Mean for Education?
By Rebecca Koenig
Some entrepreneurs predict {that a} new digital world is being born, one the place web customers retain possession of their on-line actions, due to blockchain expertise that reduces the management of schooling establishments and firms. It’s an ecosystem that would rework colleges—websites for educating and studying—into marketplaces—websites for purchasing and promoting.
8. College’s Use of Exam-Proctoring Software to ‘Scan’ Rooms Violated Privacy Rights, Judge Finds
By Jeffrey R. Young
Software that “watches” college students as they take exams from house is a contested space of edtech, one which pits faculties’ curiosity in stopping dishonest in opposition to college students’ privateness. In this first-case-of-its-kind, privateness prevailed.
7. As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’
By Rebecca Koenig
Online programs supply college students elevated flexibility—which is one other manner of saying they shift the burden of creating construction from establishments and instructors to the scholars themselves. To design higher techniques, methods and instruments to assist handle this, what can conventional faculties study from establishments specializing in on-line increased ed?
6. Two Universities Team Up to Stay Alive, But Stop Short of Merging
By Daniel Mollenkamp
Two establishments agreed to share prices and collectively handle graduate-level programs and profession certificates and badges for grownup learners, whereas retaining independence of their undergraduate choices. Could or not it’s a mannequin for different faculties to check out, to extend income and reduce prices?
5. Employers Are Changing How They View Training. Here Are Education Trends They See Coming.
By Jeffrey R. Young
Leaders on the 2022 SXSW EDU convention shared the shifts they’re anticipating in the case of getting ready individuals for the labor market, together with the introduction of shorter, stackable levels and the rise of skills-based coaching.
4. As a Student, I Couldn’t Afford a College Sweatshirt. As a Professor, I Keep That in Mind.
By Ruby C. Tapia
In a transferring private essay, Ruby C. Tapia, chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies on the University of Michigan, mirrored on her expertise arriving on campus as a pupil with $30 and one suitcase. She writes: “Every single success and every moment that I might not have survived (but did) is and was due in great part to a faculty member—either an instructor of mine, or a colleague—who knows that the university is still not for me.”
3. Guiding Young People Not to Colleges or Careers — But to Good Lives
By Rebecca Koenig
What ought to youngsters do after highschool in these altering occasions? To discover out, EdSurge interviewed highschool college students from across the U.S. in regards to the futures they’re working towards and the alternatives they’re making to get there. We discovered large disconnects between what youngsters worth and what postsecondary choices supply, particularly to younger individuals who might battle to afford faculty.
2. With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses Into ‘Metaversities’
By Rebecca Koenig
Is schooling transferring to a “tri-brid” mannequin that flows between in-person, on-line and simulated environments? Find out why leaders of virtual-reality corporations, and educators at just a few faculties, suppose that that future has already arrived.
1. MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era
By Jeffrey R. Young
If distant schooling is well worth the tuition, then what’s the worth of a university campus? That’s the query that professors at MIT requested themselves as they collaborated on a brand new proposal for what increased ed might appear to be within the years to return. The mannequin embraces on-line supplies but in addition insists on in-person educating.
