Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. But there are limits to technological finesse. Rama Chellappa asks Can We Trust AI?

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Dan Cohen

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. But winemaking is instructive in our technological age because it pushes back against these algorithms. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email. It may be chemical, but it also feels alchemical.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I don’t know why, but I don’t tend to write book reviews. This isn’t your typical president-of-a-large-university-writes-a-book-about-the-future-of-education book. It provides a framework that will change the way you read Students First and, frankly, many other books as well. But read Broken first.

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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. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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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. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

We have been here before and can recognize the potential of technology tools in the hands of both teachers and students, which promotes more efficient learning, can save time, and focuses on what’s needed. Only affluent universities and technology companies had access to experiment with what AI could mean in the future.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Student interest will continue to grow when it comes to virtual courses and remote learning options for live courses, the desire for creating richer academic and on-campus experiences, and new technology options. Yet, on many campuses, technology dollars are limited, with a wide variety of initiatives competing for that funding.

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University Business

APRIL 29, 2024

Anticipated job growth in information technology and health sectors, combined with changing demands for skills in the labor market, creates the potential for their premiums to remain high. ” Researchers analyzed survey data from 5.8 However, IRR is highly sensitive to the costs incurred to obtain a specific degree.

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University Business

APRIL 20, 2023

It’s no great revelation that today’s students are digital natives and view technology as an intrinsic part of how they navigate the world. However, despite their preference for using digital technology to complete day-to-day tasks, they crave interpersonal connections and relationship building.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The postdigital engages specifically with our current state of technological development, where digital technologies appear to be both ubiquitous, but also increasingly invisible, as they sink down into the mundane activities of everyday (educational) life.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. ChatGPT is based on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which is a type of deep neural network designed to generate human-like text. So how is the technology industry addressing the issue of ‘AIgiarism’ ? What’s the problem?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

On March 28, 2023, Bryan’s new book, Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis (JHU Press), will come out. Bryan’s new book, I predict, will catalyze a postsecondary ecosystem–wide conversation about how colleges and universities are both preparing for and addressing climate change.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android. Certainly, engineering and technology students would do well to ponder those issues.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” ” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time.

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HEPI

APRIL 21, 2023

Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. ChatGPT is based on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which is a type of deep neural network designed to generate human-like text. So how is the technology industry addressing the issue of ‘AIgiarism’ ? What’s the problem?

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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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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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Coursera blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

I’m excited to introduce The Job Skills of 2023 report , which explores the fastest-growing digital and human skills on Coursera entering 2023. The ongoing evolution of technology means employers are regularly seeking new digital competencies from potential hires while also reskilling existing workers.

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Leader of Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I am passionate about showing teachers, parents, and students that they can use technology and social media to make a difference in the world. Topics I talk and write about include Digital Leadership, Digital Wellness, Technology-enabled Learning. I am a wife, mom, and a Teacher-Librarian, and a former Literacy Consultant. First Name.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

I started to compile a list of electoral-adjacent books for this column, only to feel an urge to go outdoors and forget about what the next 20 months have in store. (At Several recent or forthcoming titles focus on the natural world, including the human organism and how it navigates its environments.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

In an  LA Times op-ed published in early 2023, psychologist Angela Duckworth, PhD, argues against banning the bot, explaining that it and similar technologies are here to stay—and that instructors should learn how to incorporate it into curricula. Some schools are blocking the technology altogether.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

But I have a second, more important mission once you’ve taken a look, perhaps worried about how to approach this technology, and wondered how swiftly AI is going improve and expand. Or for more creative, personal, analytic, or cutting-edge writing, the work will start with the human writer and be polished in the end by AI.

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HEPI

JUNE 4, 2023

This book review of Paper Belt On Fire by Michael Gibson was authored by Lucy Haire , HEPI’s Director of Partnerships. When books and articles are published that are critical of higher education institutions, whether their curricula, culture, scale, structure or even just their mere existence, the temptation is to be quickly dismissive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I also work in the area of bioethics and the law, with a special focus on genetics, human reproduction, and mental health. The use of reproductive technologies and privacy issues around reproductive technologies, including those that relate and don’t relate to genetics, are privacy issues.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Not by admissions selectivity or even by their contribution to social mobility, but, rather, their impact on the growth of knowledge and technological and scientific advancement? Smith’s essay raises troubling questions about whether Google, despite its dominance of AI research, is treating this technology with the urgency it requires.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

And yet, in its publication policy, OpenAI clearly articulates that all content generated through the use of ChatGPT and intended for publication as writing (they give as quaint examples “a book, compendium of short stories”) is to be understood and identified as “co-authored” by the user and the AI.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” The passage then goes on to say, “And the Word was made flesh …” These clauses are typically interpreted to mean that a divine plan, divine precepts and injunctions, and divine law preceded and directed human history. That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Perhaps what inspired me the most in terms of understanding this topic was a book published right before Covid called, Distracted: Why students can’t focus and what you can do about it. Dr. Pratt’s area of focus is educational psychology, technology and assessment.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

What was particularly new about the Robbins Review was a costed proposal for more money which promised by reference to nascent Human Capital Theory to be self-financing through growth in productivity. These changes and similar trends in other nations have led some to suggest that Human Capital Theory is dead or dying (Lauder et al, 2022).

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may facilitate widespread cheating. Inside Higher Ed caught up with 11 academics to ask how to harness the potential and avert the risks of this game-changing technology.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Perhaps what inspired me the most in terms of understanding this topic was a book published right before Covid called, Distracted: Why students can’t focus and what you can do about it. Dr. Pratt’s area of focus is educational psychology, technology and assessment.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

However, these challenges go beyond technological barriers; it’s evidence that students have had to grapple with the complexities of digital infrastructure which can impact student well-being. In this instance, the white paper stresses the importance of leveraging technology to address mental health concerns.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

But I have a second, more important mission once you’ve taken a look, perhaps worried about how to approach this technology, and wondered how swiftly AI is going improve and expand. Or for more creative, personal, analytic, or cutting-edge writing, the work will start with the human writer and be polished in the end by AI.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Further, our patron-driven scheme, Books for You , enables students to suggest titles for the library to buy. If a student wants access to a particular book, but we don’t have it in stock, they can request a copy. From the student’s perspective, they’re able to access a book at the moment they need it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

He read every book he could on the species. He says evolutionary biology is a field with less racial diversity than other science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. At OSU, he researches cooperation in vampire bats, asking important questions that reveal answers about not only bat behavior, but human behavior.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Thought leaders to follow Anant Agarwal Anant Argarwal ’s mantra is direct: “education is a human right–everyone should have access to it like the air we breathe.” Grawe, professor of economics at Carleton College , is perhaps best known for his two blockbuster books Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education and The Agile College.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I devoured Paul LeBlanc’s latest book, Broken , over the weekend. It’s one of those books that takes a while to digest fully—I mean that as a compliment—so I’ll split this review into two posts, of which this is the first.

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