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Why It’s Imperative that Africa Study Abroad Opportunities Thrive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dynamic innovation and leadership is happening all over the continent, in public health, climate and sustainability, history and culture and urban development; there’s much for American students to learn. Through a service-learning summer program in Ghana, I gained knowledge about West African history, culture and sustainable design.

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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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(Re)imagining AI for Educators: How to Improve Learner-Centered Classrooms with Futuristic Possibilities 

Faculty Focus

From designing custom art images to creating “Soundful: AI Music Generator” songs and videos to interacting with historical figures through “Hello History” fun chats, AI has the capability to boost education and deep learning. We want to get it right and learn together.

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How to Combat the High Schoolization of the University

Inside Higher Ed

Even though higher education has its own hazing rituals and rites of passage, it doesn’t impose tests of character. I raise these examples to prompt a bigger issue: Are there things that higher education should do but can’t or won’t? We can dismiss flawed graduates as a handful of bad apples.

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Is AI the New Homework Machine? Understanding AI and Its Impact on Higher EducationIs AI the New Homework Machine?

WCET Frontiers

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. Very simply put, the release of ChatGPT and the development of other large language model AIs is a seminal moment in human history.

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How About We Put Learning at the Center?

Inside Higher Ed

Malesic interprets students in his theology class telling him on the first day that “they knew they would get an A because they already had 12 years of Catholic school” as an example of knowingness that blocks learning. ” I have to say, I would not necessarily attribute either of these responses to “knowingness.”

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The F Word

Inside Higher Ed

That isn’t possible in higher education. Faculty members must recognize that it’s not enough to create opportunities for students to learn – though we must certainly do that. Certainly, we can’t make students invest the time, attention, and focus that deep learning requires.