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Ghost Students: The Rise of Bots in Online Education 

Faculty Focus

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. This is different from generic applications where chatbots may only handle customer service inquiries.

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Ghost Students: The Rise of Bots in Online Education 

Faculty Focus

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries.

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PTO proposal prompts protest at University of Missouri

Inside Higher Ed

Image: University of Missouri system employees are pushing back against proposed changes to the paid time off policy, saying it will mean a cut in benefits and less time off over all. Service workers at the University of Illinois protested last fall for higher wages. an hour, Mississippi Today reported. New Plan Details.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I believe that this was in the third grade when my district tested all of the children for inclusion in the gifted education programs. district and state proficiency tests, and NAEP) and academic aptitude tests (i.e., Less attention given to achievement tests (e.g., and (b) are not mislabeled and misplaced in special education?

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UC Berkeley agrees to make online content accessible

Inside Higher Ed

Since that violated Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act, the government asked the university to implement procedures to make its online content accessible. attorney for the Northern District of California, said in a statement. Hinds, U.S.

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ED’s New Proposed Regulations: Part 1, State Authorization Reciprocity

WCET Frontiers

Immediately after the release last week, we alerted WCET and SAN members via email about two proposals under the “Certification Procedures” issue. SAN and WCET have been closely following those issues since they were first proposed in the “ Certification Procedures ” issue in rulemaking last year. Remember that volume matters.

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Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU’s Partnership for Workforce Readiness: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 175 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Terrence Cheng

The Change Leader, Inc.

A united system provides a more streamlined and efficient shared services model on the back end that anticipates providing improved academic performance, retention, graduation rates, and job placements. My first was Russell Lowery-Hart, who just started as the chancellor at the Austin Community College District. Great move for him.

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