Enrollment in American higher education just declined. Again. That means the total number of students taking classes in American colleges and universities during spring 2022 went down compared to the previous semester (fall 2021) and the prior spring term (2021). The numbers and analysis just appeared from the National Student…

This week I’m teaching my gaming and education seminar for Georgetown University’s Learning, Design, and Technology program. I’d like to share my plans for it here. The goal of the class is to dive into how we can use gaming in education, with an emphasis on higher ed. Every class…

What’s the best service or tool for creating and hosting an online class by oneself? A client asked me this question last week, and I really didn’t have a solid answer ready to hand, since most of my work to date has involved institutions. So I started asking around, bugging…

What impacts will climate change have on the future? What do they mean for higher education? Today we continue our group reading of the new IPCC report, focusing on the Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability document produced by Working Group III. We’ll dive into the “Summary for Policymakers.” We’ll begin with…

997,083. That’s the number of Americans killed by COVID-19 so far, according to the CDC. We think of it as a million, if we think of it at all. That’s not just because large statistics are often hard to parse, but also because nobody trusts anybody’s numbers now. COVID-19 testing…

When will the first American college or university charge $100,000 or more to attend for a year? What might that mean for higher education? I first posed this question in 2018, during the Before Times. The gist was that a hypothetical Most Expensive University (MEU) would crack the six figure…

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Bryan Alexander Today we had a great Future Trends Forum session and I wanted to share as much of it as I can here. Our guest was famed designer Michael Townsend, creator of the famous A Dark Room, and who has just released a…

How can we use games and simulations to teach about the climate crisis? An interesting example comes from the British Financial Times, which just launched a small web game. Let me outline the game, then offer a few thoughts. In “The Climate Game” you play “the global minister for future…

What impacts will climate change have on the future? What do they mean for higher education? Today we continue our group reading of the new IPCC report, focusing on the Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability document produced by Working Group II. We’ll dive into the “Summary for Policymakers.” Next week we’ll…