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Riding the wave of technological change to enable transformative learning for all

HEPI

On learning about the focus of the discussion, we chatted about the use of Generative AI tools amongst her peer group, and she wondered why my contemporaries were so flustered by this latest advance in technology. In this way, there has always been a next generation technology ; I have always been riding the wave of technological change.

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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How AI can add the human touch that today’s college students need

University Business

Other faculty members are scrambling to AI-proof their classrooms to prevent students from using this technology to cheat. AI is helping us help our students in ways that feel much more human than skeptics of this new technology might have thought possible. This ambivalence is understandable. It contributed to a 3.5%

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How To Be Conspicuously Human in the Online Classroom 

Faculty Focus

Many of us have received university-level guidance which helps us know how to respond to AI-assisted writing when we see it (or when an online checker tells us to take a deeper look). In “Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change,” Dr. Leo S. And it misses another consideration.

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Why the college essay will never be the same due to AI, related technologies

University Business

This is the first full application cycle where students have the ability to use ChatGPT, and this technology is constantly changing,” Jenny Rickard, the chief executive of the Common App, said in a statement, according to The New York Times.

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How To Be Conspicuously Human in the Online Classroom 

Faculty Focus

Many of us have received university-level guidance which helps us know how to respond to AI-assisted writing when we see it (or when an online checker tells us to take a deeper look). In “Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change,” Dr. Leo S. And it misses another consideration.

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AI companions to replace the prospectus?

The PIE News

This is a generation that live hand-in-hand with technology as co-creators. Aside from the small task of redesigning the modality of higher education and graduate jobs for this generation – universities must now also radically redefine how they offer course and application guidance.

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