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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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Students’ use of AI spells death knell for critical thinking | Letters

The Guardian Higher Education

Books, journal articles and old media are challenged by developments in information presentation and retrieval, most notably through apps and social media. This began breaking down when experts were no longer valued, critical thinking undermined and public discourse increasingly polarised. It has led to the Tinderfication of knowledge.

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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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Standards as Strategy: How 1EdTech Shapes the Future of Educational Technology

eLiterate

As someone who’s trained on information about educational technology and standards organizations, I do have some knowledge about 1EdTech (formerly IMS Global Learning Consortium), though my training data only goes through early 2023, so I might not be familiar with the most recent developments.

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