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Students can’t get no sleep

Wonkhe

Looking ahead to Wonkhe's Secret Life of Students event in March, Jim Dickinson reviews polling results that suggest sleep, work and travel are key to students both surviving and thriving The post Students can’t get no sleep appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Empowering Online Instructors: A Guide to Crisis Prevention and Preparedness 

Faculty Focus

If you have taught in higher education in the last 20 years, you have probably taught an online course. Online learning is one of the most prevalent modalities in higher education today and has only been made more visible by the COVID pandemic (Costa, Kavouras, Cohen, & Huang, 2021). However, the rapid expansion of online learning meant many institutions overlooked the campus safety procedures for faculty teaching online from remote locations.

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Guillory Named Chief Academic Officer at Dillard

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Monique Guillory has been appointed the new provost and chief academic and enrollment officer Dillard University, effective April 1. Dillard President Dr. Rochelle L. Ford announced that Guillory will work with the interim provost, Mablene Krueger, through April to transition into the role. Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford.

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Empowering Online Instructors: A Guide to Crisis Prevention and Preparedness 

Faculty Focus

If you have taught in higher education in the last 20 years, you have probably taught an online course. Online learning is one of the most prevalent modalities in higher education today and has only been made more visible by the COVID pandemic (Costa, Kavouras, Cohen, & Huang, 2021). However, the rapid expansion of online learning meant many institutions overlooked the campus safety procedures for faculty teaching online from remote locations.

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Guillory Gets Chief Academic Officer Appointment at Dillard

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Monique Guillory has been appointed the new provost and chief academic and enrollment officer Dillard University, effective April 1. Dillard President Dr. Rochelle L. Ford announced that Guillory will work with the interim provost, Mablene Krueger, through April to transition into the role. Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford.

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LLMs are not inventions, they are Discoveries. How That Fact Changes Adoption and Outlook. - BRET KINSELLA - Synthedia

Economics and Change in Higher Education

It's interesting to me that that large language models in their current form are not inventions, they're discoveries. You know, the telescope was an invention, but looking through it at Jupiter, knowing that it had moons was a discovery. “My God, it has moons.” And that's what Galileo did… We know exactly what happens with a 787. It's an engineered object.

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Strange Bedfellows on Accreditation

Inside Higher Ed

Strange Bedfellows on Accreditation Elizabeth Redden Sun, 01/07/2024 - 12:06 PM Jennifer Blum and Robert Shireman write that bipartisan consensus around improving accreditation is possible.

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Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0 - Vittoria Elliott, Wired

Economics and Change in Higher Education

But for all the novelty and speed, generative AI’s problems are also painfully familiar. OpenAI and its rivals racing to launch new AI models are facing problems that have dogged social platforms, that earlier era-shaping new technology, for nearly two decades. Companies like Meta never did get the upper hand over mis- and disinformation, sketchy labor practices, and nonconsensual pornography, to name just a few of their unintended consequences.

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Aw Jeez, not this s**t again

Jon Boeckenstedt

It’s a popular meme, and it’s a good one for today. I had said I was just going to point people who ask me about the latest SAT or ACT news to this blog post. It’s long and cumbersome, but it did sort of summarize all the points I talked about too often.

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Unpacking the Pillars of Resistance Against DEI Initiatives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The political landscape in Florida has recently witnessed some significant developments that pose a serious challenge to efforts aimed at promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at public colleges and universities. On November 8, 2023, the Florida Board of Governors put forth regulations aimed at restricting the use of state and federal funds for DEI programs.