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Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration

Faculty Focus

It is this technology-enabled ease and efficiency that I thought could benefit my teacher candidates (TCs) in my fine arts for elementary education course during their busy end-of-semester season. Burrow is a professor of education studies at Stephen F. Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) 2006, Orlando, FL.

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China and India still dominate international scholars field in US

The PIE News

The number dropped below 100,000 in 2020/21 for the first time since the 2006/7 academic year – a total it has not yet returned to. At 79%, most international scholars specialised in the STEM fields, which included physical and life sciences, engineering, health professions, math and computer science, and agriculture.

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Context, Cultural Insight Bring Diversity to the Dramatic Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. She needed one more general education course to graduate, and wound up taking dramatic structure, a complex course with Dr. Bert O. General education courses are very valuable,” said Lee.

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“Too good to be true” – the young Africans receiving international scholarships

The PIE News

I wanted to be educated so badly,” he says of himself as a child. “I At school, a computer science exam meant labelling the parts of the machine on a diagram as there were no actual computers. Despite being well-educated, salaries can be lower and recruitment to top roles is often not based on meritocracy.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

million investment in the institution, and in higher education development across Africa. campus in Africa, other American institutions have sought to invest in higher education on the continent by working with local institutions. “Higher education development used to be, the Global North leads and Africa follows.

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Freedom of speech and students’ unions

SRHE

by Phil Pilkington In March 2023 Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), wrote a review of Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect (both SOAS), covering freedom of speech, populism (of the left and right), ‘no platforming’, and students.

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2023 wrapped: The biggest trends in higher ed—and the most read stories

University Business

It’s been quite the year for higher education in 2023. Ron DeSantis to extract the “woke” from higher education. Department of Education’s Development Infrastructure Grant Program (RDI) announced in August offers a potential game-changer for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).