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3 Questions for Todd Nicolet, Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation At the most recent edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council meeting , we had the privilege of spending time with Dr. Todd Nicolet. Todd is the Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC. What does the role of Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning entail?

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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Yike Guo. Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022.

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STEM innovation in constrained economic times – the UK in an international context by Professor Ian Walmsley, Provost of Imperial College

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. This is how universities see it too. To move from ideas to impact, benefitting society.

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‘House of the Dragon’ Is Obviously a Thinly Veiled Exploration of Academic Politics

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation The best recent show about academia over the past few years is not The Chair , although it was pretty good. The show you want to watch if you want to understand how a university actually works is HBO’s thinly veiled academic drama, House of the Dragon. What are you watching?

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Brian Blake, President, Georgia State University. Brian Blake on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast as he approached his one-year anniversary of becoming President at Georgia State University. Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So I would say that’s not for everyone, although I think it transcends academia. Weekly Wisdom.

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3 Questions With Marni Baker Stein, Coursera’s New Chief Content Officer

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Like many of you, I know Marni Baker Stein. For the first time in her career, Marni is moving from the university side to ed tech. Q: What inspired you to move to an ed-tech company after a career in academia? I got hooked on helping universities meaningfully close critical gaps in educational access.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

We asked how she’s met these opportunities: “When I think about my role as Provost at Florida State University , at that point in my career, I was not at all certain that I wanted to be a university president. But I know in academia, management is considered the dark side. I hadn't thought about it.’