Kortext University Leaders' Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

In advance of Kortext Live , we spoke to Andrew Bates (Chief Product Officer at Kortext) about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education, and how it can enhance the student learning experience. We take AI tools for granted every day – from search engines to digital voice assistants to facial recognition on our phones.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields have always had a noticeable gender gap which, sadly, continues to this day. In 2023, women accounted for only 27% of the STEM workforce , highlighting the significant lack of inclusion in the industry.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Creating equity in the classroom requires that educators anticipate individual student needs, consider the delivery and presentation of their content, assign coursework that has real-world meaning, and prioritize skills development — efforts that result in greater student success, according to experts and research.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

The INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in Business Award winners are passionate about building programs that advance these ideals by providing access, academic support systems, skills training, mentoring, experiential learning initiatives, networking opportunities, community, and so much more.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The studio works in collaboration with HPML within the university’s Division of Disability Resources & Education Services (DRES). This article was published in our March 2023 issue. As such, products designed for people with disabilities are developed by them, rather than by people without disabilities.

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HEPI

APRIL 21, 2023

If you want to know more about the impact of AI on higher education, Kortext Live , a free in-person event at Imperial College London, is taking place on 25 April 2023. Does that mean AI is a negative development for higher education? This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Bates, Chief Product Officer at Kortext.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“It’s not that we are any different than anyone else, it’s that we face so many barriers in the health care system that keep us from getting the kind of preventative care, the screenings, and the education that we deserve.” This article was published in our March 2023 issue. Research affirms this assertion.

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ACRLog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Nery Alcivar-Estrella, Reference and Instruction Librarian at California State University, Northridge, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2023-2024 year here at ACRLog. Citational justice involves a critical awareness about who we are citing and why.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

million through the Driving Change initiative , a project that supports building more inclusive learning environments in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in higher education. This article was published in our January/February 2023 issue. Six universities will each receive $2.5

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

With new federal grant funding, the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has implemented several programs that bolster support for students with disabilities who pursue degrees and careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine. 2023) meaning that based upon predictive algorithms, it links text data in remarkable ways. I thought it was a game changer and kicked myself for my poor research skills because the chatbot had me beat right down to its use of digital object identifiers (DOI) for the articles it presented.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. This series of two articles will describe ways to use GenAI tools to create case studies. The second article will introduce a novel type of case study, an interactive role play. 2023; Trust, 2023; Michel-Villarreal et al.,

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ACRLog

JULY 21, 2023

I am seriously concerned by “fun” articles that anthropomorphize ChatGPT in this way. I also find myself concerned with articles that are mostly AI-generated, with maybe a paragraph or two from the human author. Its suggestions now included Engineering, Information Technology, Business, Healthcare, Law, and Creative Arts.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

by Sir Adrian Webb The publication on 13 September 2023 of the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee report on the Office for Students drew attention to the financial challenges facing universities in the UK and to the challenges associated with regulating and overseeing these risks. The PMR was set at 7.3%

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine. 2023) meaning that based upon predictive algorithms, it links text data in remarkable ways. I thought it was a game changer and kicked myself for my poor research skills because the chatbot had me beat right down to its use of digital object identifiers (DOI) for the articles it presented.

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HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

It is strange to remember a time before I communicated so habitually through email, the first time I used an academic search engine, or ventured into a virtual learning environment. We deploy an in-house tool that supports tutors in identifying students at risk of withdrawing, using weekly predictions to enable timely educative interventions.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. This series of two articles will describe ways to use GenAI tools to create case studies. The second article will introduce a novel type of case study, an interactive role play. 2023; Trust, 2023; Michel-Villarreal et al.,

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Milwaukee School of Engineering President John Walz, PhD, welcomes fall 2022 students to ACRE. Since then, the curriculum has constantly evolved to improve student support and education. If access starts with education, then our roles.— Real estate touches the lives and livelihood of every person in society.—

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The project involves building an education pathway of diverse environmental science professionals by placing UArizona students in K-12 classrooms to help implement a biodiversity-focused science curriculum. The team will continue to engage with Indigenous communities, organizations, and tribal governments to provide educational resources.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Understanding diversified student populations and a more unpredictable higher education landscape, Hack concludes with an imperative. The vision of DAIR is to be the world-leading aerospace engineering hub,” he said. Two graduates wanted to start their own company with an idea for a small chip that could check an engine.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

At the same time, with Artificial Intelligence tools such as ChatGPT making their way onto the higher education landscape, and search engines such as Google, we wondered if online students still use library services provided by their institutions. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2023, September). 2023, October).

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

Transit ioning t o Cam pus Li fe From elementary school through high school, students with disabilities usually have individualized education programs (IEPs), which are legal documents that detail the specific special educational services each person needs. IEP services can include speech, physical, and occupational therapies.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

He attended three universities on the way to achieving his goal, but never had a professor of color teach any of his STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) classes. “I Gómez has coped with reading and writing disabilities throughout his education, having first been diagnosed as functionally illiterate in middle school. “I

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

If the media is to be believed, the future of the senior diversity officer in higher education is bleak. In 1996, California voters passed a statewide ballot initiative, Proposition 209, that eliminated consideration of race in public education, contracting, and hiring. But is it really?

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Where is the educational value in this? For the uninitiated, esports are mind-numbing, video games that have no place in education. This is a possibility to ingrain finance, tech, management, coaching, sponsorship and marketing into educating a group of students who may previously have been unengaged.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education Can artificial intelligence technology help you research content ideas? These are questions higher education marketers and communicators are no doubt contemplating in the wake of ChatGPT , an AI tool that went viral after American firm OpenAI launched it in November.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Department of Education. The students are also scheduled to tour campuses virtually and participate in a multiday stay at the University of Wyoming campus in summer 2023, where they’ll take sample courses. “Jack” Ellbogen Dean of the University of Wyoming College of Education. million grant from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Brown, despite having this country’s oldest applied mathematics program and the Ivy League’s oldest engineering program, isn’t in the Top 30, and Dartmouth isn’t among the Top 50 US and Canadian universities. Contributing to this ethos is an engineering, hands-on mind-set.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education (Part I)?- We are talking about how technology influences our work at higher education and student affairs, particularly in international education. 22-How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education (Part I)? . #22-How Hello, Hanna.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It’s hard not to run into articles pushing the next big edtech product poised to disrupt the learning experience. billion valuations in 2021 and 2022, respectively, HolonIQ forecasts global edtech venture investments in 2023 to total only $3.5 Countless rankings are published almost monthly. Following $20.8 billion and $10.6

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018. “We could reverse [that trend] by giving them educational products that will get them reconnected, that will value their prior learning, that will get them to that degree.”

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

To further advance advocacy and equity in health care, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Nursing will launch a new program in 2023 to teach nursing students about policymaking. To expand on student advocacy education, which is already layered into the curriculum, this spring JHUSON will launch the Policy Honors Program.

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EAB

APRIL 25, 2023

The 4 biggest challenges facing graduate and adult education How can you effectively manage your recruitment funnel, predict yield, or plan for the administration of your programs if 80% of applicants are stealth? April 24, 2023 Looking to Grow Your Health Care Administration Program? Try these 4 strategies.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation says the decision is part of a longer-term pivot away from funding education—which ranks high among philanthropic causes—to supporting traditionally underfunded work in social and racial justice. As for the fellowships, a new round will be awarded in 2023, and a limited number of awards will be made in 2024.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

” Virtual international exchanges offer participants in at least two different geographic locations sustained engagement and mutual transformation over time, according to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Tiera Tanksley , Assistant Professor of Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education at CU Boulder and a Critical Race Technology Fellow at UCLA. from the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies within UCLA’s Urban Schooling program. Urban Education. She earned her Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. But of all the articles I recently read, two stand out, and both share a common theme: The power of purpose.

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