Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the world of higher education has continued with the report that Harvard University has plans to use an AI chatbot as part of its introductory computer science course. Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Jeff Schiel ACT For the report, " High School Students’ Use and Impressions of AI Tools ", ACT researchers asked 4,006 10th to 12th-grade students nationally about their AI usage and their views on such tools. Computer science and programming was found to be the least common reason for such tool use (17%).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. Gramsci, toiling away at his notebooks in his prison cell, and other geniuses who have done important research and literary creation under the hardest circumstances, are the exceptions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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. York lauds the program as “really smart.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” Such support has grown over the last three decades.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As a growing number of undergraduate students each year opt to enroll in computer science, it’s important to know which schools offer the best degrees in the field. Not only did computer science survive the pandemic—it thrived. Georgia Institute of Technology (96.87) Atlanta, GA $508 / $586 6. Similarly, the U.S.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Creating a data-informed campus: part 2. The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data.

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Clark Nesxen

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Computational design has the power to transform the way we approach problems and design solutions. It involves codifying information and interactions between elements for a specific process, enabling professionals in fields like architecture and engineering to design and engineer buildings more efficiently, accurately, and effectively.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The question is to what extent universities feel the need to step into the developmental space around XR technologies, and who should they be watching. Apple has not made much public noise around XR technologies beyond integrating AR functionalities into its recent iPhone releases. Which evolutionary pathways will win out is unknown.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

"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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Kartic Subr, a Senior Lecturer in Computer Graphics within the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, delves into the pioneering realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in educational settings. They are an important aspect of plans surrounding technology in education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

From the burgeoning focus on diversity and inclusion in the 1980s and 1990s to the rise of digital technology in the late 1990s and 2000s, I have been privileged to observe and contribute to significant shifts in the educational paradigm. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Generative AI tools can refine research topics, support data analysis, and format references. Although the capabilities of generative AI tools will continue to expand, our guiding questions are designed to maintain relevance despite shifts in technologies. Students can seek personalized clarification on challenging concepts.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Since the pandemic, the increased reliance on digital technology, such as virtual meetings and online learning, has created additional pathways enabling bad actors to access confidential student and employee data. But what about higher ed? Which colleges are doing the most when it comes to providing top-tier education on the subject?

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

by Anita Toh As scholarly research into and using generative AI tools like ChatGPT becomes more prevalent, it is crucial for researchers to understand the intersections of copyright, fair use, and use of generative AI in research. This evokes the question: Why doesn’t the proposed research align with fair use?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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. Students had been invited to weigh in via an email that included a link to the online survey.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What there is, is a clear exponential increase in the capabilities being demonstrated by computation algorithms. The computational capabilities do not represent intelligence in the sense of sapience or sentience. These capabilities are not informed by the senses derived from an organic nervous system.

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Clark Nesxen

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

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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Ray Schroeder

MAY 16, 2023

A new school at the University of Southern California will be dedicated to teaching data science and information technology to non-computer majors in order to prepare them for an increasingly digital world. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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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College Forward

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — College Possible , the pioneering national nonprofit on a mission to boost equitable college access and success by connecting high school and college students from low-income backgrounds with near-peer coaches, today announced the appointment of Ali Ayub as senior vice president of finance, technology, and data.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Student grades, attendance, and staff’s citations fuel the academic-industrial complex by fostering connections between businesses ready to absorb the highly-graded students while partnering with high-ranking research initiatives. Shoshana Zuboff calls this “behavioural surplus” – a term that might as well fit within the academic landscape.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Without delay, the colleges set to work performing restorative activities on their respective computer networks, according to Meg Casper Sunstrom, deputy commissioner for strategic communications at the Louisiana Board of Regents. Then the account added, “This is all of the information currently available for release.”

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It is difficult to draw just one conclusion from the research I have read. Qualitative research done by James Lamb, Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, highlighted some of the things that still makes students turn up to their lectures: the human element. 2007; Dolnicar, 2005). Goebel, A.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 23, 2022

Because Discord is privately owned and not supported by most universities, faculty members will need to allow students the option of joining the class server and offer alternative ways of communicating information through the approved LMS. The original purpose of Discord was a VoIP for gamers in multiplayer games. Benefits of Using Discord.

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Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

In 2008, I was recruited to run a grant with the purpose of connecting adult learners with data to inform their college choices so they didn’t need to depend on marketing hype from lead generation websites. But he always wanted to pursue a degree in computer science—he loved technology. My why is multifaceted.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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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University Business

JULY 18, 2023

As a longtime procurement professional, I’ve seen many well-intentioned administrators reinvent the wheel when seeking solutions to improve campus life and student outcomes; connecting with procurement before doing any research could transform how they approach investing in related resources. Wash, rinse, repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

” 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. Lucy: You’ll get onto it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

As a composition instructor and sometime creative writer, I admit to being stung by the email informing me “that we’re making some changes to our content priorities and production volume, and unfortunately, we won’t be able to offer you hours after this week.” It made total sense.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

surrounding the technology is all about. For most people, ChatGPT was their introduction to large language model (LLM) AI, a technological advancement distinguished by several key features. These advanced features fundamentally alter how we can interact with machines and access information. Scale: LLMs are massive.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Joining a research and education network (REN) is a worthwhile investment for any college or university with a research program. They act as high-powered internet service providers connecting laboratories, research sites and academic institutions. But RENs are more than just superhighways for sharing research information.

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University Business

JULY 2, 2024

“Any language-based assessment or any language-based discipline is going to be affected, [including] lab reports, research papers and speech writing,” says Mike Kentz, founder of AI For Schools, an AI literacy training consultancy. Researchers at the University of Reading in the U.K. Why did it make this suggestion?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

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.

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