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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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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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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. As editors?

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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. That the framework cherry-picked, misrepresented and distorted the cited literature in neuroscience, acceleration, tracking and assessment. Linus: New math is too much for me. It’s necessary.

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Gamekeepers, poachers, policy wonks and knowledge

SRHE

I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it. This then was quite a gap to be bridged.

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Teaching AI writing in terms of co-authorship (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The next-level artificial intelligence capabilities of ChatGPT, a chat bot released in late November by the research company OpenAI, have inspired many predictions, both drastic and ecstatic, for the end of essay writing, if not education as we know it. Whether we like it or not, HAL 9000 has transferred to our campus this spring semester.