Lumina's new goal: ensure college grads gain higher incomes The Lumina Foundation’s previous 17-year goal—for 60 percent of adults to have a postsecondary credential—fell short. How will its next mission, focused on income, fare?

www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

If you do not have time to watch the UW 2025 Faculty Lecture on YouTube, this OpEd showcases @katestarbird.bsky.social brilliance.

Note: browser reader view generally lets me see a Seattle Times post if it is paywalled.

Check out the latest edition of Puget Sound Business Journal featuring a profile of University of Washington Continuum College leader @rovybranon.bsky.social. Rovy’s journey to where he is today will surprise you! 📚✨

bizj.us/1qmzup

#KeepLearning #EducationForAll #ContinuingEd #LeadershipJourney

Inevitably:

Why “Living Intelligence” Is the Next Big Thing AI is merely one facet of a sweeping technological change underway, and companies that fail to recognize the importance of other converging technologies risk being left behind. Two other technologies ...

our former podcast guest, and world-leading Futurist/Insight Analyst @amywebb.bsky.social reinforcing the notion that if you are only paying attention to LLM AI, you are not seeing the future

States want adults to return to college. Many roadblocks stand in the way A new partnership between the state of New Jersey and the education company ReUp brought back more than 8,000 students in the first year

Nationally, there were 36.8 million adults under the age of 65 with some college but no credential. Adults with some college make up about 28 percent of the American population.

New study on AI & investing: When GPT-4o summarizes earnings calls to match investor expertise level (simpler for novices, technical for experts):
Sophisticated investors get +9.6% improvements in 1-year returns, novices get +1.7%
AI helps everyone, but expertise amplifies its benefits considerably!

Generation Beta starts in 2025: 5 things to know Generation Beta includes those born between 2025 and 2039, primarily the children of younger millennials and older Gen Zs.

No mention of the real tech driver for “Gen Beta:” biotechnology. If we are agog over generative AI, Gen Beta will decide on what genetic traits will be allowed to carry forward and which ones will be extinguished/promoted. Is our education system preparing leaders (Gen Z) for this future?

This is a big deal. A whole special issue of the top empirical journal in educational psychology on how learning analytics can help us test, refine, and apply theory for better learning. Kudos to the guest editor @mattbernacki.bsky.social! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Local skills demand data may be more noise than signal Gathering skills demand data to power a local skills revolution is hard work. David Kernohan appraises another attempt.

Best of 2024: Gathering skills demand data to power a local skills revolution is hard work. David Kernohan appraises another attempt.

The Solstice has passed! How is everyone enjoying their extra minute of sunlight today?

Well this is a very cool NotebookLM update!

I just need a new interface. I find it lack user friendliness

The Emerging Bipartisan Era of Accountability What a growing consensus means for the kinds of metrics US higher education will have to manage

From Phil Hill:

For U.S. colleagues and others, what might these changes mean?

The emerging bipartisan era of accountability.

onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/the-emergi...

Top Stories: iOS 18.2 Out Now, iPhone and Mac Rumors, and More iOS 18.2 is finally here, delivering several new highly anticipated Apple Intelligence features and expanding availability to new countries. This week also saw a number of hardware rumors including Apple itself leaking the existence of upcoming M4…

Top Stories: iOS 18.2 Out Now, iPhone and Mac Rumors, and More

Picture of Mount Rainier in sunset with a lenticular cloud sitting on top of the mountain peak.

Oh…the Mountain is out!

The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future | Open Praxis Open Praxis is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal focusing on research and innovation in open, distance, and flexible education. It is published by International Council for Open and Distan...

I'm very pleased to have contributed to this work, "The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future"
openpraxis.org/articles/10....

‘Best in the class’: Greek man in his 80s starts night school after life of toil Vasillis Panayiotaropoulos always had a thirst for knowledge – but had to leave education behind aged 12 to help his father in the fields

Learning is for life! #Lifelonglearning
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Best books of 2024: Business Andrew Hill selects his must-read titles

A number of the Best Books of the Year lists are out & what a way to end the year!

My book, Co-intelligence was named one of the Best of 2024 by the FT (www.ft.com/content/f3e9...), and The Information (www.theinformation.com/articles/bes...), and The Economist (www.economist.com/culture/2024...).

Majority of new talent need extra training, employers say A recent survey of human resources and business experts finds discrepancies in entry-level talent skills and employer needs, as well as an opportunity for earlier outreach to young people about career...

This @insidehighered.com article should include a disclaimer at the top stating that the company responsible for the report is selling solutions for the “issues” it supposedly highlights. This is an area in need of real research.

www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Looking South from the university district in Seattle, from the University of Washington Tower into fog and rain. I-5 bridge in the foreground, fog blocking view of downtown.

Looks like #MondayMotivation involves a lot of coffee as we enjoy a wonderfully refreshing rainy November day in Seattle. #UWTower

Very useful data on gender and college degrees from Pew Research:
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Pro tip: To turn off notification summaries on iOS, go to Settings > Notifications and then toggle "Summarize Previews" off; this will disable the feature that groups and summarizes notifications from various apps on your iPhone.

Dual Enrollment in California California is investing in dual enrollment programs, which give high school students access to college courses and credits. The vast majority of dual enrollment courses are offered by California Commu...

Dual Enrollment in California www.ppic.org/publication/...

There is a lot of ruin in a social network, and they are pretty durable, especially when there are no real alternatives.

But with the rise of alternatives, the dynamics shift creating the possibility of cascading collapse of entire online communities or networks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking east from the UW Tower. Fresh snow on the Cascade Mountains. Green in the foreground in Seattle.

Fresh powder in the Cascades. Looking east from the #UWTower in Seattle from the campus of the University of Washington. Last glimpse before big storms roll in.

When I was in high school, my counselor said you are not college material, so I started a couple of businesses & played in bands, had a kid, before finding a path in HE as an adult learner. Passionate about using tech to humanely extend institutions for people like me and, especially, not like me.

Edu particulars: Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology w/minor in Human Computer Interaction from Indiana University Bloomington. 2X UNC-Charlotte Grad: M.Ed. Instructional Systems Tech, BA Psych & Philosophy. 14 years teaching online for IU IST (master's level students).

Been in the PNW for 11 years. Previously at another UW (Wisconsin) as Associate Dean and CTO for Extension, + Exec. Dir. Of the #Academic Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab, which focused on #elearning standards (SCORM), #mobilelearning (1 patent exp) and #GamebasedLearning with GLS faculty.

A picture from the UW Continuum offices atop the 21st floor of the University of Washington Tower looking East over the Seattle Campus, Football Stadium, and Lake Washington with a sunrise through the clouds

Hi folks. Old everywhere else but new here on Bsky.

At the University of Washington in Seattle USA. Current role is leading Continuum College, the #LifetimeLearning division at UW. We serve about 45K learners annually, from middle school to seasoned learners over 55. www.continuum.uw.edu
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