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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Consequently, renormalizing consumer expectations for end-user experiences.

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ChatGPT: Educational Friend or Foe?

The Scholarly Teacher

Keywords: Evolving Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Student Learning, Assessment What Is ChatGPT? Ask ChatGPT to write a paragraph about metacognition, solve a math problem, or summarize a book chapter, and it scours the web and responds to your request. ChatGPT has caused quite a stir in education, and for good reason.

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. As the world becomes increasingly digitalized and reliant on technology, the demand for STEM skills and careers is growing rapidly.

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Fostering blended-mode engagement with active learning seminars

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

This post belongs to the Jan-March Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Engaging and Empowering Learning Engaging and Empowering Learning with Technology. A Weekly Planner provided at the start of the semester is very helpful in organising all essential information. & Computer Eng. Industrial Fellow (School of Eng.,

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. So, in addition to delivering instruction that focuses on skills, technique and emerging technologies, we must also provide safe and inclusive space for students to explore visual storytelling in service to critical issues.”

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Backlash as a university says its library will be 'all digital'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Five hundred of the approximately 5,000 students across the three soon-to-be-merged institutions responded, and those students indicated, “We want information as quickly as possible, and digital is better,” according to Grewal. Still, UC Merced sought to create a model for a 21st-century academic research library.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After all, students who lack a solid background in calculus and statistics are not only closed out of programs in business analytics and financial technology, engineering, epidemiology and health informatics, machine learning and the quantitative social sciences, but even medical, dental and nursing school. It’s necessary.