Professional, Continuing, and Online Education Update by UPCEA

Daily updates of news, research and trends by UPCEA

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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Streamlines Higher Ed Admissions - Alexander Slagg, EdTech

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Southeast Missouri State University, located in Cape Girardeau, Mo., on the western bank of the Mississippi River, is praised by its nearly-...

The Quantum Barrier Just Shattered And Nobody’s Talking About It - Julia McCoy, YouTube

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The video discusses a significant breakthrough in quantum computing simulation achieved by Jupiter, Europe's first exascale supercompute...

As Insta-Gen Z take to microlearning, HEIs are adopting new programme modules - Education Times

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The Instagram generation’s preference for short-form learning is reshaping higher education in India and abroad. Recent data shows that shor...
Friday, December 12, 2025

S&P: Negative outlook for nonprofit colleges in 2026 - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive

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The credit ratings agency — the second to forecast a poor outlook for the sector in the year ahead — pointed to federal policy shifts, risin...

Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: the Need for Deliberate Design - Flen Depaepe and Jan Elen, Education International

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Education is facing a number of challenges, such as a shortage of teachers, declining formal student outcomes, and increasing heterogeneity ...

A free version of ChatGPT built for teachers - OpenAI

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A free version of ChatGPT built for teachers - OpenAI A secure ChatGPT workspace that supports teachers in their everyday work so they can f...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Micro-credentials need to be part of national frameworks - Sjur Bergan, University World News

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 One approach to micro-credentials is to see them as part of a longstanding development towards greater individualisation of study programme...

Why higher education cannot leave AI governance to industry - Looi Chee Kit and Wong Lung Hsiang, University World News

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In June 2025, AI research firm Anthropic released a striking study that should concern every policy-maker, technologist and university leade...

No college degree, no problem? Not so fast - Lawrence Lanahan, Hechinger Report

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In recent years, at least 26 states, along with private companies like IBM and Accenture, began stripping degree requirements and focusing h...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

AI in Higher Ed Will Come Slowly, until All of a Sudden! - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed

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Higher education is, by nature, very slow to change. So it is with embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI). Yet, when it finally comes, the c...

How AI Is Fueling the Gender Pay Gap in Tech -Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe and Tiantian Yang, Knowledge at Wharton

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Past research has blamed the gender pay gap in IT on promotion barriers and workplace culture. But new Wharton research points to another ma...

How AI is redefining the COO’s role - McKinsey Podcast

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Productivity across sectors is slowing, and labor shortages persist. COOs are in an exceptional position to help their companies address the...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

AI may be scoring your college essay. Welcome to the new era of admissions - JOCELYN GECKER, ABC

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Students applying to college know they can’t — or at least shouldn’t — use AI chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So it ...

Defining professional programs: Why evidence and clarity matter in ED’s rulemaking - Katharine Meyer, Brookings

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The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently clarified which graduate programs qualify as “professional” for higher federal loan limits un...

The Ivory Tower’s Glass Jaw: How Generative AI Shattered the Illusion of Higher Education Assessment - Maya Perez, Web Pro News

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For decades, the modern university has operated on a tacit agreement between faculty and student: the former assigns the essay as a proxy fo...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Improving digital literacy in older adults is now a health imperative: report - Kimberly Bonvissuto, McKnight's Senior Living

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GetSetUp, a virtual learning platform for older adults, recently released its 2025 Active Aging Report, which found older adults eager to le...

AI is coming for your job, here’s the one move you need to make to stay employable and relevant in the job market - Manu Kaushik, Economic Times

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Hart, who previously served as a technical advisor to Jeff Bezos at Amazon and took over as president and CEO of Coursera in February 2025, ...

Restrictive policies manifest in US, Canada enrolment drop - Nathan M Greenfield, University World News

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In this year’s Global Enrolment Benchmark Survey (GEBS), American colleges reported a 6% decline in international undergraduates, erasing th...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Colleges Are Closing. Who Might Be Next? How machine learning can fill data gaps and help forecast the future - Robert Kelchen, Dubravka Ritter & Douglas Webber, Education Next

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These simulations point to the precarious potential situation facing postsecondary education in the coming years, especially if the demograp...

How will AI transform teaching and learning at universities? - NAXN — nic newman, Medium

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Robots will replace teachers by 2027. That’s the bold claim British education expert Anthony Seldon made in 2018. He may have been the first...

Bridging pedagogy and technology: a generative AI and IoT approach to transformative English language education - Zhongjie Li, Nature

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English as a Second Language (ESL) education faces momentous challenges including restricted personalized feedback and scalability constrain...
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