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Launching the Computer Science Education Group: Fostering Collaboration and Advancement

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Photo credit: Unsplash CC0 In this extra post, the authors share details about the new Computer Science Education Group; an innovative initiative that aims to bring together staff and students of varied backgrounds involved in Computer Science Education. What Sets Us Apart? You can find more about us on our website: [link].

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Report: Undergraduate Enrollment Finally Rising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"We continue to see almost all of the growth [for undergrads] coming not from new freshmen, but rather from larger numbers of students who are continuing from last year and also returning from stop-outs,” said Dr. Doug Shapiro, director of the NSC research enter. There's been a lot of growth in graduate students." under amounts for Fall 2019.

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Q&A with Clark Nexsen Computational Designer Ryan Johnson

Clark Nesxen

Ryan Johnson, AIA, LEED AP, has been a champion of technology in architecture since teaching himself how to create a script in 2013. Today, as a dedicated computational designer, he believes great design ideas come first and the application of computational tools can elevate those ideas.

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Working environments: a short overview of the literature

SRHE

Here in the first of two blogs Nic Kipar reviews what we know from research about working environments; the second blog will look at what this might mean in practice. This sense of control fosters a positive psychological environment, as evidenced in both Swedish and Dutch Masters and PhD research.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may facilitate widespread cheating. The artificial intelligence language model was released by OpenAI and is currently offered free as a research preview.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Among the criticisms : That the report lacked sound research to support its claim that its approach will advance equity. in 2015, just 25 percent of 12th-grade students nationwide performed at or above proficiency in math, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Linus: New math is too much for me.

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Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods: ‘A little bit digitalised?’ Developing practice with online exams

Teaching Matters Online Learning

2019, Myyry & Joutsenvirta 2015, Williams & Wong 2009). A couple of years ago I did some research that analysed the experiences of university staff who designed and delivered online exams (Allan 2020). The second was transformation , whereby rapid technological changes require radical change in examination practices.