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Riding the wave of technological change to enable transformative learning for all

HEPI

On learning about the focus of the discussion, we chatted about the use of Generative AI tools amongst her peer group, and she wondered why my contemporaries were so flustered by this latest advance in technology. In this way, there has always been a next generation technology ; I have always been riding the wave of technological change.

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UIUC Leads Effort to Make Speech Recognition Technology More Inclusive

Insight Into Diversity

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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ChatGPT Wrote This Article and then Totally Stole My Job!

eLiterate

I’ve been fascinated by the rapid progression of ChatGPT article fads: Look at this weird thing that writes stuff! I asked ChatGPT to write this article—and it totally did!!! So ChatGPT, the miracle of modern technology destined to destroy all education, is not as “smart” as a calculator. Or magazine articles?

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Yet the humanities are crucial , even—or especially— in a world that prioritizes science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. Similarly, good engineering seeks to improve the human condition, like the LEED-certified building methods that minimize negative impacts on the environment.

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InSciTE Program Teaches Valuable Career Skills to Future STEM Workforce

Insight Into Diversity

In January 2022, Wiline Pangle, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at Central Michigan University (CMU), collaborated with 14 of her colleagues to create an innovative new program aimed at equipping students with often overlooked yet essential skills needed in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers.

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Colleges award tenure

Inside Higher Ed

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Guy Bresler, electrical engineering and computer science. Otto Cordero, civil and environmental engineering. Michael Carbin, electrical engineering and computer science. Ming Guo, mechanical engineering. Stefanie Jegelka, electrical engineering and computer science.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU).