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Ghost Students: The Rise of Bots in Online Education 

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Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. Application processes: Chatbots often assist students with inquiries about application procedures, deadlines, and required documentation.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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Ghost Students: The Rise of Bots in Online Education 

Faculty Focus

Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. Application processes: Chatbots often assist students with inquiries about application procedures, deadlines, and required documentation.

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Challenge Labs – a new way of doing research and teaching

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This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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ChatGPT sparks debate on how to design student assignments now

Inside Higher Ed

But he also created The Sentient Syllabus Project , an initiative driven by three principles: AI should not be able to pass a course, AI contributions must be attributed and true, and the use of AI should be open and documented. LeCun spoke with Inside Higher Ed about challenges in computer science in September.)

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4 Ways to Be Digitally Sustainable in the Classroom

Today's Learner

Allowing simple file formats In the early days of personal computing, many files were in plain text formats, like TXT or CSV (spreadsheet) files. But today, files are normally in binary or rich text formats, like PNG images and Word documents. This also applies to slide presentations, documents and eTextbooks.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. That’s a big question about the purpose of writing—not one we can delegate to computer science. Mina Lee, doctoral student in computer science, Stanford University.

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