WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marc joins us to discuss the potential of AI in digital learning and to highlight the amazing work happening at his institution to prepare faculty and students for a future that includes working with AI. The goal of this training was to help prepare faculty for the fall semester. Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

Metzler, a true visionary in academia, healthcare, and diversity, passed away on Saturday, March 23, at his home in Grenada. ” With degrees in law and human rights from both Columbia University and the University of Oxford, and doctorates from Aberdeen, his academic journey was distinguished. Christopher A. Christopher A.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Only if we listen with equal parts openness and alarm.

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Humanities Technology Advise Academia 89

HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

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. The panic around AI replacing human effort has calmed as knowledge has grown.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior; and Bryan Carstens and Meg Daly, both at The Ohio State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Be kind to everyone. He never saw himself pursuing a career in academia until his high school biology teacher encouraged him to apply for a scholarship to Cornell University. “It

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Just three months later, ChatGPT made artificial intelligence a popular reality, and the very definition of knowledge work, and how much of it humans will continue to do, is very much in question. These recent developments in AI have the potential to displace humans from whole categories of knowledge work.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since September. Demonstrations were triggered by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, who was accused of wearing her hijab “improperly.”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the short few weeks that professor Alex Lawrence has taught his sales technology course this semester at Weber State University, he finds the level of discussion his students are already having “remarkable.” “Human writers draw from our experience, judgment, and intuition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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ACRLog

JANUARY 31, 2023

As I’m sure anyone in academia is aware, ChatGPT and its AI counterparts are taking us by storm. I’ve seen it rolling around Twitter, in all-faculty emails at my institution, and of course in places like the Chronicle of Higher Education. MIT Technology Review. This may be a defining point in the first stage of my career.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

What is the role for human agency in these types of assemblages with human and non-human actors, so as not to feel helpless or a “cog” while respecting the need to de-centre the human? The agency of humans is constrained by the people, technologies and materials we are bound to or surrounded by.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

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. At UDC, faculty focus on diversifying learning assessment through the core principle of action and expression. HyFlex model framework with UDL principles.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. She also championed diversity and inclusion in faculty and staff hiring and promotion practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S., biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Marion Underwood, dean of Purdue’s College of Health and Human Services, in nominating Rodriguez to become a 2023 Emerging Scholar. human-centered design of health technologies; and 3.)

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed. So, when faculty come to me with a problem, they want an answer. Some of the faculty who want a quick fix already “get it,” meaning they come in valuing diversity and inclusion and/or come in with a strong critical analysis (think antiracist, feminist, queer, critical disability, etc.).

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Today's Learner

JULY 12, 2023

As the virus swept around the world, faculty were reminded to band together in support of our students. While faculty are in academia because we love making a positive difference in students’ future growth and development, we are only human. Faculty faced increased workloads as their classes transferred to online.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed. So, when faculty come to me with a problem, they want an answer. Some of the faculty who want a quick fix already “get it,” meaning they come in valuing diversity and inclusion and/or come in with a strong critical analysis (think antiracist, feminist, queer, critical disability, etc.).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 16, 2022

My background is in Educational Neuroscience, applying how the human brain learns to improve teaching environments. Q3: What advice do you have for current doctoral students who want to learn about opportunities outside of the traditional faculty route and potentially want to work at a learning and technology company like Coursera?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Drumm McNaughton In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, listeners will gain an overview of how technology is reshaping the EdTech arena and the potential risks of the current state of OPMs. These agreements are not just on paper; they are integrated into a sophisticated technological system.

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Echo Delta

JANUARY 11, 2024

Higher education, in contrast, is a service-oriented field that relies heavily on human interaction and unique cultural norms to create transformative experiences for students. The skills and strategies that work in manufacturing and tech may not translate seamlessly into academia. Then, there’s Elon Musk’s public persona.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

” Faculty members—as well as staffers—are on the front lines of higher education’s battle to arrest declining student mental health, ravaged by nearly three years of the COVID-19 pandemic combined with such stressors as climate disasters, racial unrest, political incivility and culture wars.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, community engagement, diversity, inclusion, research, faculty development, campus safety, and more. Evolving with a holistic approach is more important now than it’s ever been.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By directly involving high school students in the design of their future educational experiences, REP4 demonstrates a proactive approach to student engagement. Moreover, advancements in digital learning technologies are not just buzzwords but tangible tools reshaping the educational landscape. 00:07:45] Catherine: Yeah.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

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. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

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. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In June, Harvard University announced a $200 million gift to launch the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, an academic center dedicated to the study of one of humanity’s most pressing threats. Academia is founded on the premise of truth seeking. In May, Stanford University announced a $1.1

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

in Information Sciences & Technology from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.B.A. Before joining the faculty at ASU, he was a faculty member at Texas Tech, and prior to working in academia, Dr. Koricich spent several years as a software development manager at a large insurance company prior to his career in academia.

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eLiterate

JULY 12, 2023

The repetitive work they are doing now would be replaced by the software over time, freeing up the human brains for other things that human brains are particularly good at. On top of that, it’s just a bad idea to have spread bits of glue code here, there, and everywhere, regardless of whether a human or a machine writes it.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. Within weeks of its release, the program amassed an unprecedented 100 million users, setting a new record for the fastest technology to reach this milestone. A bit more open to technology are the administrative and student life departments.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. Within weeks of its release, the program amassed an unprecedented 100 million users, setting a new record for the fastest technology to reach this milestone. A bit more open to technology are the administrative and student life departments.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

In academia, I've always been enamored with folks who can work the art of leadership in a really clear way, all kinds of models, all kinds of people who've inspired me to think, 'If I could just steal a little of that, a little of that.' He was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association’s Hall of Fame in 2013.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Modifying Traditional Higher Ed Models of Faculty Responsibilities The traditional higher education model often adheres to a distribution of faculty workload as 40% teaching, 40% research, and 20% service.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” At the same time, he said, “untenured faculty figured out they should not be seen here. He said, “I am growing tired of standing on principle while watching academia get sacked by latter-day Visigoths,” and, “This is war and our job is to vanquish them.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.

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