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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From the burgeoning focus on diversity and inclusion in the 1980s and 1990s to the rise of digital technology in the late 1990s and 2000s, I have been privileged to observe and contribute to significant shifts in the educational paradigm. Each phase of my journey provided unique insights into the challenges and opportunities within academia.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

Creating a data-informed campus: part 2. The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data.

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Developing Your Approach to Generative AI

The Scholarly Teacher

Although the capabilities of generative AI tools will continue to expand, our guiding questions are designed to maintain relevance despite shifts in technologies. 2013) or simply failing to put in necessary, foundational work. Frontiers in Computing and Intelligent Systems , 2 , 81–83. 2021; Yang et al., link] Dwivedi, Y.

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The Metaverse explained for university leaders: opportunities and decisions ahead (4/4)

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

The question is to what extent universities feel the need to step into the developmental space around XR technologies, and who should they be watching. Apple has not made much public noise around XR technologies beyond integrating AR functionalities into its recent iPhone releases. Who should universities watch? Think small.

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Working environments: a short overview of the literature

SRHE

Haapakangas et al (2018) noticed that difficulties in locating available workspaces led to frustration and perceptions of time loss and recommend implementing real-time information systems to help employees locate suitable workspaces and accessible quiet zones to address privacy needs. Personal communication to Kipar, N.,

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At a public university such as Kansas State University, where I am employed, budget and salary information is public, and understanding about budget decisions and functions is important to our constituents and communities. NISO is the National Information Standards Organization. 2013, section 3.4] 2013, section 3.4]

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Hacking into Experiential Learning: Smart Data Hack

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

When we started the Smart Data Hack in 2013, the premise was simple: take a bunch of tech-savvy students, challenge their imaginations and coding abilities with problems and data from ‘the real world’, then sit back and see what happens over the five days of Innovative Learning Week. Mar 7, 2016