Coastal Alabama Community College will provide hospitality and tourism workforce development in a business and workforce development center owned by a local company. The area is seventh most vulnerable county in Alabama to sustain job losses as a result of COVID-19.
Leveraging the "empathy machine" to enhance student learning through the immersive technologies of virtual reality, augmented reality and extended reality.
Higher ed administrators must ensure students can connect and collaborate with faculty, staff and their peers in more ways—particularly in the online and hybrid learning environments that may be implemented this fall, say UB guest columnists Carolina and Claudia Recchi.
UB guest columnists John Katzman and Stephen M. Kosslyn address six challenges higher ed faces in preparing for the fall. Ideally, they say, campuses will create a single ecosystem that allows faculty, staff and students to move between physical and virtual environments.
In this case study, Florida State University advances its goal of using data to ensure meaningful and impactful student experiences by partnering with Microsoft. An accompanying Q&A discusses how the pandemic has accelerated the need for first-tier remote learning options for higher ed. Sponsored content by Microsoft.
College and university leaders must be nimble and open to disruptive, outside-the-box systems thinking—now and in a post-pandemic world, says UB Future Shock columnist James E. Samels.
With campuses closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, career services teams have gotten creative about delivering programs virtually, including finding ways for students to still have internship experiences.
Planning for online and face-to-face instruction in fall 2020 is forcing colleges to look at new models of teaching that provide flexibility and credits for co-curricular learning.
