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Mobilities and the ‘international academic’ in higher education

SRHE

It was an interesting week full of presentations and discussions around the theme of Mobilities in Higher Education. In the opening plenary talk, Emily Henderson invited us to reflect critically on the different ways in which mobilities of academics and students in higher education are discursively constructed.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? By any standard, I had a privileged education, first at Oberlin, then at Yale.

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Navigating chronic illness in academia: An early career perspective

HEPI

This blog is part of a series HEPI is running with the British Academy on the changing face of academia. . With administrative, teaching and research pressures mounting in academia generally, large proportions of academics report feeling overworked and emotionally drained. Career Progression. What Works and What Would Help.

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

Faculty Focus

HBCUs are rich in diversity and often consist of more disadvantaged and underrepresented populations (NCES, 2020). When all academic communities changed to virtual (synchronous) education, it was a shift to an alternative educational format from traditional face-to-face to virtual. Integrating UDL within a HyFlex model.

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Artificial Intelligence: The Rise of ChatGPT and Its Implications

Faculty Focus

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. Potential As with any new development, advantages often come with disadvantages.

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Artificial Intelligence: The Rise of ChatGPT and Its Implications

Faculty Focus

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. Potential As with any new development, advantages often come with disadvantages.

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Scaffolding key to teaching the art of conversation (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We feel the effects of it deeply in higher education because faculty, staff and students across the country are still trying to create a public sphere in which reasonable people can disagree. Higher education is one powerful place to help build these skills of scaffolding. And when we fail, which is often, the failure resonates.