Oct. 20: Computer science’s very online crash - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 完美对战平台

Get ready for your day with this essential rundown of what’s happening in higher ed. Subject: Daily Briefing: Computer science’s very online crash. 📺 Join us tomorrow. The Chronicle’s Sarah Brown and Rick will be on Daily Briefing Live at 1 p.m. ET with analysis of the latest news, plus a special midterm-election preview. 📝 What’s in today’s Briefing? Trump’s deal drought ends. AI won’t make college less important to employers. It’s a story of boom-and-bust online education. Oregon State’s Extended Campus, or Ecampus, created a fully online post-baccalaureate program in 2012, allowing bachelor’s holders to quickly get a computer science B.S. Within a year, it was Ecampus’s biggest program. But it’s also part of a broader story across higher ed: Undergraduate computer-science majors at four-year colleges dropped by more than 8 percent between last spring and this spring, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found. Uncapped programs were hardest hit. Those computer-science programs don’t limit the number of students who can enroll in a major.