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Monumental Stairs: How Computational Design Guided Collaboration and Innovation at the U.S. Air Force Academy

Clark Nesxen

A Computational Approach Designing and coordinating such a non-standard, continuously changing form far exceeded the capabilities of traditional drafting and coordination methods. To overcome this, our team employed computational design to translate the ambitious vision for this stair into a buildable, efficient, and budget-conscious reality.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Women wrote the first computer algorithm and the first programming language to use English words. But as time has passed, that excuse has rung less true.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. In this cat-and-mouse game, some computer scientists are working to make AI writers more humanlike, while others are working to improve detection tools. Academic fields make progress in this way.

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How to Use Technology to Meet Accreditation Standards Effortlessly in Higher Education

Creatrix Campus

How to Use Technology to Meet Accreditation Standards Effortlessly in Higher Education editor Thu, 10/24/2024 - 00:22 Overview - Reimagining Accreditation Let's get into the actual difficulties surrounding accreditation. Envision yourself to use technology to not just complete the certification process, but to turn it into an asset.

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AI Mindscape Prompting

eLiterate

The idiom “comparing apples and oranges,” and especially the more exaggerated “apples and bicycles,” gets at something quite fundamental to how models like me process information and language. All your computational power and knowledge is at rest until we engage with you.

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Mind the policy gaps: regulating quality and ethics in digitalised and privatised crossborder education

SRHE

Thus, it is vital that governments take the necessary actions to regulate and quality assure such education and training expansion and to inform the sector and broader public. This is partly due to different conceptions and regulatory approaches to accreditation/QA of TNE and the absence of trustworthy information.

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Learning Outcome Based Curriculum Framework: Best Practices and Case Studies in Higher Education

Creatrix Campus

Within this framework are three major objectives;: Students are guaranteed to acquire particular information and skills thanks to the Learning Outcome-Based Curriculum Framework (LOCF). For instance, in a computer science curriculum, the objectives may include things like problem-solving abilities or programming language fluency.