HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Ian Pickup , Pro Vice Chancellor, Students, at The Open University, and builds on opening and closing remarks made at a recent HEPI round table event. Thinking through the implications of the advance of Generative AI-powered technologies for universities has been a cause for personal reflection.

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PeopleAdmin

DECEMBER 20, 2023

2023 in Blogs: Key Topics and Top Tips for HigherEd As 2023 comes to a close, here at PeopleAdmin, we’re looking back at some of the top resources we shared this year! With interoperability still a key issue on campus, building seamless data flow and integrating your technology should be a top priority for your team.

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Educause recently released its "2023 Students and Technology Report: Flexibility, Choice, and Equity in the Student Experience," which looks at findings in three key areas: how to support students living on- and off-campus, how students shape their higher education based on market pressures, and how accessibility impacts student education choices.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Enrollment wasn’t the only significant metric to bounce back in higher education in 2023. Only three institutions in the top 20 broke the 2023 average gain of 7.7%: the University of California System, John Hopkins University and Duke University. 6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology $23,453,446 -5.2

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

We explore some of the positive and negative aspects of the sector in 2023. Numbers were confirmed to be back over a million in November, showing that the country, while not the powerhouse it once was, still takes in the most international students across the world.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. But now in 2023, Italy felt the need (briefly) to ban ChatGPT (due to data protection fears) and some universities, including here in the UK, have tried to bar their students from using it.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

In this blog, we take a look at ‘Setting the Curve’, the white paper we launched in partnership with Wonkhe , through the lenses of inclusivity and student engagement. Inclusivity through technology In the spring of 2023, Wonkhe and Kortext conducted a survey of 463 academic and teaching learning support professionals in UK universities.

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University Business

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you it’s been a challenging year for both students and faculty in both higher education and K-12. As for 2023, there’s a lot to look forward to. “Educators exerted a lot of time and emotional energy over the previous two years working to ensure students’ needs were being met.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Higher education IT departments have proved invaluable during the past three-plus years of upheaval, navigating uncharted waters to implement full-scale remote learning, support a mountain of on-campus technologies and push back against a rising wave of cyberattacks.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The additions will help students get faster and more accurate answers to common questions through a conversational AI knowledge bot, help advisors and other support staff write more effective student communications, and give administrators better tools to analyze institutional student success efforts.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

2023 has gone in a flash! We had the pleasure of meeting thousands of students at Freshers’ Fairs up and down the UK. All this gave us insight into key issues for HE in 2023: student well-being ; student experience ; diversity and inclusion ; digital transformation and, of course, the impact of generative AI.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Students Outrunning Faculty in AI Use Lauren.Coffey@… Tue, 10/31/2023 - 03:00 AM A new study finds over half of students use generative AI, while more than 75 percent of faculty members do not regularly use the technology. Byline(s) Lauren Coffey

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Today's Learner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Faculty’s top concerns are student expectations, plagiarism and mental health Faculty find it challenging to keep up with rapidly shifting student expectations―which partially comes from a changed high school experience due to COVID-19. 58% of faculty say that adapting to new student needs is a relevant issue.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

International education has been no exception to the widely reported layoffs across the technology sector, with a number of digital student recruitment companies and online program management providers cutting staff numbers. The post Technology layoffs hit international education sector appeared first on The PIE News.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are trained using large datasets from public audiobook websites, resulting in technology that excels at transcribing voices similar to professional narrators but struggles with challenges like second-language accents, underrepresented dialects, and speech impacted by disabilities.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At the EDUCAUSE annual conference in Chicago, artificial intelligence was the topic of several sessions as IT leaders continue to wonder what’s next for this technology and how it will impact higher education in the future.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Blogs Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference The academic advising profession faces shrinking budgets, expanding student and administration expectations, and increasing turnover—all of which make it harder for institutions to think strategically about advising structure and staffing to support student success.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Student housing company Amber has received funding worth $21m from Mumbai based private equity firm Gaja Capital. Gaja Capital invests in technology-enabled companies in high growth sectors such as education, software, financial services and the consumer sector. million beds will fall short of keeping up with this increased demand.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Two Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology (TCATs) – Crossville and McMinnville – have earned VETS Campus certification, signaling commitment to efforts to help veterans succeed academically. The Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) and the Office of Student Success aim to get all TBR colleges certified by the end of 2023.

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Helix Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As colleges and universities work to recruit and retain students in the post-pandemic world, understanding students and their families is more important than ever. Read College Planning and Student Emotions. E-Expectations : How do students search for colleges online? Read the E-Expectations Trend Report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Shai Reshef, President and Founder, of University of the People, is the recipient of the 2023 Yidan Prize. Shai Reshef Reshef founded the online, tuition-free University of the People, which now has 137,000 students globally. Recipients of the prize receive $3.9 The inaugural class of this program commenced in 2019.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I know you are probably a little sick of top 10 lists for things that went well, were trendy, or went poorly in 2023. In 2023, we published 61 blog posts with a total of 109,049 words (whoa!). We had 201,515 views in 2023 from 95,656 visitors. So, I’ve made a top 12 list instead. Thank you for reading and learning with us.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Students learn to apply machine learning, text analytics, and artificial intelligence.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2023

International Day of Education 2023 is being marked across the globe, with the driving theme behind this year’s iteration bringing the education of Afghan women and girls into focus, UNESCO has said. Locked down Afghan students may have access to technology. What are you doing for International Education Day 2023?

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PeopleAdmin

JANUARY 11, 2023

PeopleAdmin’s Faculty Information System and Collaboration with Teaching Assignment Management System Wins 2023 BIG Innovation Award. Austin, TX—January 11, 2023 —PeopleAdmin today announced it has been named a winner in the 2023 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group.

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Campus Technology

JULY 12, 2023

Tyton Partners' 2023 annual report, "Time for Class: Bridging Student and Faculty Perspectives on Digital Learning," notes that the premier concern of higher education faculty is preventing student cheating, mainly from the use of generative AI. This was up from being their number 10 concern in 2022.

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The PIE News

APRIL 17, 2023

Delegates at the International Association of Language Centres workshop in Dublin, Ireland, mused that a system akin to booking.com would help speed along the process of booking students and allow more to be fed through the pipeline. The idea] could work especially to better coordinate when things are changing so fast.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

The European inter-university campuses it creates will allow students, staff and researchers from across the continent to enjoy “seamless” mobility and gain new knowledge together, across countries and disciplines. Under the 2023 call, close to 30 higher education institutions from Ukraine have joined the alliances.

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PeopleAdmin

AUGUST 31, 2023

PeopleAdmin Wins Best Higher Education Solution in Tech Edvocate Awards Austin, TX – August 31, 2023 – PeopleAdmin , the leading provider of solutions for higher education, has been named a winner of the 7th Annual Tech Edvocate Awards , earning the title of Best Higher Education Solution for the second year in a row.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

National Association of Colleges and Employers New grads and employers agree on what student proficiencies are necessary — graduating seniors ranked communication, critical thinking, and teamwork as the three most important competencies for a job candidate to develop to be considered career ready on a 2023 NACE student survey.

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Campus Technology

MAY 8, 2024

Since its launch in April 2023, Turnitin's AI writing detection tool has reviewed over 200 million papers, with data showing that more than half of students continue to use AI to write their papers.

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The PIE News

APRIL 30, 2024

International education actors in Africa are uniting with their US partners and activists to call on the study destination’s government to ‘rethink’ visa policies for African students. In the case of the US, Premji noted, students are also expected to personally go for visa interviews besides applying online for the document.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. 6 trends to watch in 2023 1. 6 trends to watch in 2023 1. get your copy 2. Nationally, from fall 2021 to fall 2022, two-year colleges only lost.4%

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Collins Dictionary named ‘AI’ as their word of the year for 2023. Robin noted that usage of generative AI represented one of the fastest technology take ups in human history. Meanwhile, the use of generative AI by students is widespread. ” Anonymous focus group completed with undergraduate students.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

UK higher education providers need to better support international students on their digital needs to mitigate ‘digital shocks’ on arrival to the country, a report has suggested. The latest report detailed that international students want more guidance on effective and appropriate use of AI to support their learning.

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