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Survey on Campus Technology: Student Priorities and Problems

Inside Higher Ed

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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What Educators Should Know About ChatGPT

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

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. Washington University in St.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Inside Higher Ed

“If I’m a very intelligent AI and I want to bypass your detection, I could insert typos into my writing on purpose,” said Diyi Yang, assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. Bengio is a professor of computer science at the University of Montreal.

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Job search tips for entry-level roles

Coursera blog

That definition is quite vague because different fields may qualify ‘entry level’ differently. Typically, exploring entry-level roles can make sense if you are looking for your first job , are early in your career, or you’re considering a career change.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Inside Higher Ed

There is definitely not as much “wiggle room” as you would think in the materials budget! To make sure we are all talking about the same thing in reporting data, the Association of College & Research Libraries and IPEDS collaborate on definitions for library employees. These are as follows, pasted from the ACRL website.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible. “Being in costume on campus as clowns was definitely a lesson learned— not effective.”

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

There are fields that are hardly vocational, yet instead of producing people for computer science, they produce people for fields that we don’t as a society value through pay as high as some others’ How do you think about the importance of this task for those fields? Brown: I definitely do.

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