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EdTech Solutions: Streamline or Diversify?
According to Eduventures Higher Education Technology Landscape (Landscape), 22% of edtech vendors offer edtech solutions and products in more than one technology segment, with some appearing in over 12 segments. This statistic represents an increasingly common growth...
PeopleTech: Online Colleges Innovate by Hiring More People
60%. That’s the share of expenses that public colleges and universities devote to staff salaries and benefits. The ratio is similar at private schools, and neither figure has shifted much over time. Higher education, despite decades of IT spend, remains a...
Is Gen Z Less Willing to Take on Debt?
The student loan news wheel is turning fast! The U.S. Department of Education recently announced changes to their loan forgiveness program following news that Navient will stop servicing federal student loans amid increasing government and consumer scrutiny. This...
Reaching the Uncertain Student
Here are three dreaded questions for high school students: Where are you applying to school? What are you going to major in? What do you think you might do with that major? An uncertain student who doesn’t have immediate answers to those questions can easily feel...
High-Impact Occupations and the Pandemic
Last fall, we cautioned against making knee-jerk programmatic decisions given the precarious economic environment we were in. At that time, we noted that the top six bachelor’s occupational categories with faster growth and higher salary projections remained unchanged...
The Digital Learning Ecosystem: What’s Missing?
While it may be challenging to determine the downstream effects of COVID-19 on technology, one clear result is that institutions have accelerated efforts to marshal existing technologies to support teaching and learning. This includes maximizing the interoperability...
