Professional, Continuing, and Online Education Update by UPCEA
Daily updates of news, research and trends by UPCEA
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
Lighthouse lessons: Four mindsets to make digital transformation stick - Dinu de Kroon, et al; McKinsey
Why AI companies keep raising the specter of sentience - Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired
The Future of Education with AI Agents: How Conversational Agents Will Replace Classrooms - Thomas Frey, Futurist Speaker
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Becoming AI Literate This Summer - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
94% of UK employers say micro-credentials strengthen a candidate’s application - Stuart Gentle, OnRec
Survey: What Online College Students Need - Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Education
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
An Inside-Out Approach to Leadership - Drew Erdmann, et al; McKinsey
Former Google CEO-Backed Startup Builds AI Agents for Science - Scarlett Evans, AI Business
Want a job at Duolingo? Better know how to use AI - Tech Crunch
Duolingo has announced it’s becoming an AI-first company. In a message shared with staff and later posted online, CEO Luis von Ahn said the shift will change how the business runs, from hiring to content creation. While it’s not about cutting jobs, von Ahn made it clear that new roles will only be added when automation genuinely can’t do the work. Rather than tweaking what’s already in place, Duolingo is rethinking how things are done, with AI built in from the ground up. Contractors will be phased out where AI tools are a better fit, and employees are being encouraged to use AI to work smarter. The idea is to remove the repetitive tasks and give people more space to focus on creative, high-impact work.
https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers
Monday, May 12, 2025
Google’s AI Mode gets expanded access and additional functionality - Aisha Malik, Tech Crunch
Meta launches a stand-alone AI app to compete with ChatGPT - Amanda Silberling, Tech Crunch
Here is how experiential learning can save colleges from AI - Shannon McKeen, University Business
Sunday, May 11, 2025
This Boosts Your Chances Of Getting Hired By 96%, New Study Finds - Rachel Wells, Forbes
‘This is what employers need within their organization,’ Coursera exec says after new finding on micro-credentials - Lucy Buchholz, Unleash
Coursera, which generated a total revenue of $179.2 million in 2024, has recently released its Micro-Credentials Impact Report 2025. The report unearths the key micro-credentials needed within today’s workplace, while highlighting why these should be a focus for hiring managers. Nikolaz Foucaud, Managing Director EMEA at Coursera, spoke exclusively to UNLEASH to share which micro-credential should be at the top of HR leaders’ radar.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market: A new sign that AI is competing with college grads - Derek Thompson, the Atlantic
Something strange, and potentially alarming, is happening to the job market for young, educated workers. According to the New York Federal Reserve, labor conditions for recent college graduates have “deteriorated noticeably” in the past few months, and the unemployment rate now stands at an unusually high 5.8 percent. Even newly minted M.B.A.s from elite programs are struggling to find work. Meanwhile, law-school applications are surging—an ominous echo of when young people used graduate school to bunker down during the great financial crisis.
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/job-market-youth/682641/
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Tired of Chatbots? Here’s How They Could Improve - Angie Basiouny, Knowledge at Wharton
Why Doesn’t Gen-Z Respond to Fear-Based Leadership? Does fear actually motivate people? - Liles Dixon, Inc.
Microsoft CEO: "Agents Will Replace ALL Software” - Matthew Berman, YouTube
Friday, May 9, 2025
AI in Education - Ethan Mollick, LinkedIn
How to create leaders who coach, rather than command - Aneesh Raman and Teuila Hanson, Fast Company
Managers can play a big role in righting the ship—helping employees build the new skills they need to stay relevant and develop into future leaders. But this requires a fundamental shift: transforming them from task-overseers to coaches developing talent and sparking the best ideas from their teams. There are some key steps any company can take now to develop a culture of coaching that starts with your managers—but extends well beyond them. If you want your managers to become coaches, that starts by coaching your coaches. Just like elite athletes rely on coaches to reach peak performance, managers also need coaching to unlock their full potential. Coaching is a skill that needs to be intentionally developed. Executives are starting to grasp this opportunity. Nearly 80% of global CHROs agree their managers in the future will spend less time managing tasks and more time coaching teams.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91323164/how-to-create-leaders-who-coach-rather-than-command