Overcoming skepticism in higher education
The promise of a college education, particularly in the U.S., has been viewed as a path to better job opportunities, higher income, and increased satisfaction in many areas…
Student’s library work leads to a career in augmented reality
Dillon Cutaiar will graduate Virginia Tech in May 2020 with a job at Microsoft in his back pocket, thanks to his virtual and augmented reality work in the…
4 ways to drive inclusion in higher ed
The failure to drive inclusion in technical education today will have disastrous implications for our future. We are beginning to understand how unconscious biases become encoded in algorithms…
5 major online-learning challenges—and how to solve them
Karen Watts has been teaching adult education classes since 1999. A faculty member at Bellingham Technical College in Washington state, she has taught in both face-to-face and online…
3 things keeping students from on-campus mental health resources
Sixty-one percent of students feel overwhelming anxiety, according to a report from the American College Health Association survey of more than 63,000 students at 92 schools. Another survey…
How architecture can improve campus safety
Any campus-wide design and planning process requires the engagement of a wide range of departments and stakeholders, which can include facility, administration, IT, student services, student life, security…
5 things to help you think like a futurist
In 2018 we celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the founding of the Institute for the Future (IFTF). No other futures organization has survived for this long; we’ve actually…
The 10 most inventive cheating attempts on online exams
Exams are just around the corner and there is so much of the syllabus still left to cover. It's the story of every student’s life. Anxiety and fear…
3 ways colleges can use SMS text marketing
No matter how large or small, colleges often have a hard time disseminating information, news, and alerts to faculty, staff, students, and parents. Flyers, posts on school websites,…
The 60-Year Curriculum: What universities should do
Universities should adopt the 60-Year Curriculum (60YC) as a goal and a theme. It begins in the freshman year and serves students throughout their lifetime. Whereas “lifelong learning”…