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For the first time, over 25% of the world’s 200 best institutions are led by women

University Business

Among the top 200 global universities identified by THE in 2024, 51 are now run by women, marking a steady incline over the past five years: 43 in 2022 , 41 in 2021, 39 in 2020 and 34 in 2019 and 2018. Their exit from the world of elite academia means that the U.S. However, the number of women U.S.

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Universities: Guardians of ethical AI?

HEPI

The UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 introduced strict rules and fines for data mismanagement, forcing a shift in data processes. Bias and unfairness in the academic world have been persistent, though emerging technologies have revolutionised how students find information and write assignments, making academic dishonesty more accessible.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. From a cultural perspective, Jocson (2018) determined that ethnographic application supports racially and cultural and minority student learning. Likewise, Lambeth et al.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. From a cultural perspective, Jocson (2018) determined that ethnographic application supports racially and cultural and minority student learning. Likewise, Lambeth et al.

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HBCU’s Augment HyFlex Format Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Faculty Focus

The framework was developed in the United States by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), according to research in the field of neuroscience to enhance education. UDL has three core principles: engagement, representation, and action and expression (CAST, 2018). Representation is one of the UDL core principles. Engagement.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions (Assemblages Symposium)

SRHE

The agency of humans is constrained by the people, technologies and materials we are bound to or surrounded by. Reference Mulcahy, Dianne (2018) ‘Assembling Spaces of Learning ‘In’ Museums and Schools: A Practice-Based Sociomaterial Perspective.’ Tim: Agency is always relational, contingent on the agency of other elements.

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Where Higher Ed Should Be More Businesslike

Inside Higher Ed

The defining down of the credential to meet what the technology was capable of was actually my deepest fear, having seen how the defining down of what makes for proficient writing into the five-paragraph essay destroyed writing instruction.). The labor structures of academia combine the worst of all worlds.