Coursera blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s an exciting time at Coursera: We are proud to be launching DeepLearning.AI’s AI For Good Specialization , which contextualizes how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to address real-world problems, like public health crises and climate change. Sometimes, understanding AI frameworks is enough. ( See: AI For Good.)

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation I’m totally psyched about the newly announced master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Even then, we knew that AI had matured enough as a discipline to merit its own online master’s degree program at UT. Let me say that slowly.

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EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Blogs 4 AI priorities for enrollment leaders ChatGPT and the other “new AIs” caught even the most expert of industry watchers by surprise, and fully understanding their potential impact will take some time. TaskRabbit, as you may know, is an app where you can hire people to assist you with pretty much anything.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation There is no shortage of opinions on artificial intelligence. was released in December 2022, there have been dozens, if not hundreds, of articles on the impact artificial reality will have on jobs, society and education. AI is already serving as a research tool, a writing tool and a coding tool.

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EAB

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Blogs A Beginner’s Guide to AI in Annual Giving What you need to know and how to start using it in your advancement strategy With each passing day, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a more prominent topic of discussion for advancement leaders. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Hallmarks of the New AI 1.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Blogs Five Things University Leaders are Prioritizing This Year (And Two They Should Be) The results from EAB’s Spring 2023 Pulse Survey are in! Successful Mental Health and Well-Being Strategy Requires Cross-Campus Effort To answer this call for increased mental health support, EAB launched the Mental Health Collaborative in Spring 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I, like you, have no doubt asked ChatGPT, the open AI-powered text generator, to respond to some questions and been dazzled by the results. There may also be a greater emphasis on interdisciplinary studies and on providing students with the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly changing job market.”

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Coursera blog

JUNE 20, 2023

With Coursera serving more than 21 million learners, 17 university partners, and nearly 400 institutions across LATAM, we’re working hard to increase access to high-quality, job-relevant higher education in the region. We’re excited to announce several new offerings and partnerships to better serve learners and institutions throughout LATAM.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Like many of you, I know Marni Baker Stein. With increased automation and now generative AI redefining what jobs will be impacted, the labor market will drastically change—and faster than we initially thought. Her new skills helped her land a job after two years of unemployment.

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eLiterate

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This one will be listed under the “ AI/ML ” “ third-wave EdTech ,” and “ future of work ” tags. If you’ve played around with it at all (or read some articles about it), you’ll know that writing prompts that lead the AI to generate good text is something of an art. Absolutely.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

9 January · Episode 189 The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI 45 Min · By Dr. 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.

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HEPI

JUNE 1, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ken Sloan, the Vice-Chancellor and CEO of Harper Adams University. Harper Adams is certainly the smallest at under 5,000 students, Warwick would come next at its current 28,600 (somewhat larger than the 13,750 when I started), and then Monash at approximately 86,000 students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What if we ranked universities not by inputs but by outputs? Then there are the US and Canadian institutions that are rapidly climbing up the rankings: Toronto and the University of Alberta, Emory, Southern Cal, and Vanderbilt – not the campuses that automatically come to mind.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Blogs “Move-in melt” is on the rise: Why it’s happening and 3 strategies to fight it “Summer melt" is a familiar challenge for enrollment and student success teams across the country. According to a survey conducted by EAB, 28% of first-generation students reported not feeling mentally prepared for college.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Not a day goes by that I don’t read something that shocks me, annoys me, frustrates me, rouses me, or inspires me. ” Or I don’t know whether to laugh for cry. Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Is it that higher education is reeling, that past failures are coming home to roost, and the long-anticipated day of reckoning has at last arrived? Or are concerns publicized by a sensationalist press overblown, consisting of relatively isolated issues that are far less general than we think? It will change higher education forever.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Blogs Reduce long-term cost growth to rightsize your university Higher ed's budget woes are becoming harder to ignore. Capital renewal costs also broke records , coming in at $133 per gross square foot in FY22. The cost of running a college spiked 5.2% from FY21 to FY22, a 10.1% increase since FY19.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 15, 2023

In this case, they may have conducted a quick Google search about a relevant topic and discovered your website’s blog, which led them to your program page. Reading Time: 10 minutes New technology and social media can make email marketing seem somewhat obsolete, but the reality is that email marketing is as strong as ever.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask ChatGPT why you should read fiction and it will spout literature’s many benefits: entertainment, increased empathy, cognitive stimulation and learning about different cultures, historical events and social issues. All very general and abstract; not very profound or compelling.

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eLiterate

APRIL 23, 2023

The one question I heard over and over again in hallway conversations at ASU+GSV was “Do you think there will be a single presentation that doesn’t mention ChatGPT, Large Langauge Models (LLMs), and generative AI?” ” AI seemed to be the only thing anybody talked about. Consider the textbook industry.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Randall Collins' blog The Sociological Eye.] Some of these AI will be programmed to act as finance capitalists. Let us call it an AI-robot capitalist, since it will have a bank account; a corporate identity; and the ability to hold property and make investments.

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eLiterate

JULY 12, 2023

I suggested he try using a generative AI tool to fix his problem. (I’ll Generative AI probably will change EdTech integration, interoperability, and the impact that interoperability standards can have on learning design. ” Generative AI are good at pattern matching. It never worked well.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

As regular readers know, I recently announced a design/build workshop series for an AI Learning Design Assistant (ALDA). We should be able to use generative AI to achieve that goal fairly easily without taking ethical risks and without needing to spend massive amounts of time or money. And editing it easy.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Stephen Drew , RNL’s new Chief AI Officer, and I recently sat down for a discussion I entitled “Why won’t we solve today’s challenges without AI.” When I posed this opening question, Stephen made an important clarifying point: AI is not the solution, or at least not the sole solution, to solving any particular challenge.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting I had a follow up post to last week's "Freaking Out About ChatGPT" ready to go, and then I saw some things that Marc Watkins of the University of Mississippi was saying on Twitter about the technology and its use and I immediately shelved my post so I could share this from Marc. - Let me calm your fears.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

I’ve been having trouble blogging lately. I fed Bob Dylan’s famous line “He not busy born is busy dying” into OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generator, having very little idea of what the software would do with that prompt. Sadly, even in this age of magical AI genies, you can’t always get what you want.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

This is the second of four installments in our (Re)Precedented Webinar Series, which originally took place live in September and October of 2021. ?. Webinar Summary. With the pandemic in full swing, universities everywhere rushed to stage visits virtually. As things dragged on, however, prospective students experienced a “Zoom fatigue.” There we go.

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HEPI

MARCH 10, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Eve Alcock, Head of Public Affairs at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). Some are treating generative artificial intelligence models like essay mills, doing what they can to make clear to students that its use is prohibited.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

By now you’ve likely seen the hubbub over ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new chat bot trained on their large language model AI GPT 3.5. In 2023, WCET will look at Artificial Intelligence (AI) and provide support and resources to help you break through the rhetoric and understand both the promises and perils of AI in higher education.

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HEPI

APRIL 2, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Doug Cole, Associate Director – Academic at Nottingham Trent University ( @DougFCole ), and Jon Down, the Director of Development at Grit Breakthrough Programmes, which delivers intensive personal development and coaching in UK universities ( @grit_2017 ).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Over the weekend, lots of folks working in academia learned that the OpenAI, ChatGPT interface is now capable of producing convincing (though uninspired) college student quality writing to just about any prompt within seconds. Why indeed? Even so, I found the algorithm’s leaps since that time remarkable.

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Helix Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

An AI-generated image using the prompt “fundraiser meeting,”​ created by Chad Bonaker using Midjourney. This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn. ChatGPT did a pretty good job with this question. ” This is the crucial thing to recognize about AI-driven content and conversation engines.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Gordon Marsden, co-founder of Right to Learn , and Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. All are welcome: you can sign up here. L&W’s Deputy Director, Naomi Clayton, set her remarks in the context of the UK economy having had the largest employment rate fall in the G7.

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EAB

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Blogs 4 Key Questions About the Advancement Landscape, Answered A Q&A with Advancement Expert, Jenny Jones By Dakota Anderson At EAB, innovation and expertise are at the core of our mission to empower institutions with the tools they need to succeed. Read our blog to learn more. Is your program keeping pace?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Earlier this week, I focused on how the pandemic altered how academics work. Many (89 percent) think earning one will help them stand out to employers and secure a job upon graduation—and 81 percent believe the credential will help them succeed in their job once hired.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting As I wrote previously at my Substack newsletter , regarding the widespread awareness of the ChatGPT large language model (LLM) algorithm, it’s been a somewhat exciting time for me as an issue that I happen to know something about becomes so prominent in a broader national conversation.

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