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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Inside Higher Ed

Success requires leaders to learn how to say no. Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions.

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IIT Guwahati Launches Online Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence on Coursera

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The National Education Policy 2020 emphasizes on training and preparing professionals in cutting-edge areas that are fast gaining prominence, such as machine learning, AI, big data analysis, etc., NEP 2020 further highlights the importance of increasing the Gross Enrollment Ratio in higher education. Parameswar K.

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

Faculty Focus

The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is an HBCU and the only public institution of higher education in the Nation’s capital. In 2021, it started to provide VR resources for the campus community through the Center for Advancement of Learning (CAL). References Bos, D., Miller, S. & & Bull, E.

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

Faculty Focus

The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is an HBCU and the only public institution of higher education in the Nation’s capital. In 2021, it started to provide VR resources for the campus community through the Center for Advancement of Learning (CAL). References Bos, D., Miller, S. & & Bull, E.

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

Though the 28 laureates in attendance this year gave and listened to each other’s talks with optimistic titles such as “Computing for Social Good,” Inside Higher Ed took the opportunity to ask them questions about computer science’s challenges in higher education.

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

These are positive developments from the perspective of groups such as the Association of American Universities and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which promote high-impact practices that increase student engagement and deep learning. Yet the growth of active learning spaces remains incremental.

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Generative AI in Higher Education: A 360-Degree Approach

Helix Education

The following reflects these conversations, and I seek to align them with my thoughts envisioning how Gen AI, machine learning, and deep learning can tackle these hurdles. Prompt engineering is going to be another advanced approach to fetch responses to search queries that are more personalized.