Coursera blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Based on a few simple inputs from a human author, the tool auto-generates course content including outlines, descriptions, and learning objectives, dramatically reducing the time and cost of content production without sacrificing quality. They can also tailor core learning resources for specific career levels and job roles. “We

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2024

The share of the total attributed to higher education was 77.9% at £21.74bn and education products and services at £2.15bn. “The government’s announcement that the Graduate route will be reviewed has added to a challenging recruitment environment, creating a great deal of uncertainty for students and universities alike.”

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Prompting ChatGPT To get an effective end product, craft well-structured and contextually relevant prompts that will yield accurate and valuable outputs from ChatGPT. Goal : To review key topics Prompt: I want to review (concept/skill) with college students. Artificial intelligence in education: A review. Hussain, M.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

After Business Insider suggested Neri Oxman—a prominent MIT grad and wife of billionaire philanthropist William Ackman—had plagiarized in her dissertation, Ackman promised to leverage AI capabilities to review the published work of all of MIT’s faculty, its president and the work of the faculties at other Ivy Leagues.

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The PIE News

MARCH 1, 2024

The government agreed last year with the majority of the recommendations from the Nixon review, and said that an immigration compliance division would be established by the Department of Home Affairs. . “There are parts of the sector where things are not where they need to be.”

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Speaking with The PIE News , VP of Product Innovation & Development at ETS, Kara McWilliams, said that the big challenge for test takers has been how to prepare for tests. The personalised solution allows them to target spots that most need improving, she said. But other providers also maintain a reliance on humans within testing.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 25, 2023

The researchers will undertake a comprehensive assessment of the campus climate, including analyzing institutional data, reviewing policies and practices, and conducting faculty interviews.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Cases are engaging, ask learners to work at higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy (i.e., For this reason, the best users of GenAI are those who have existing knowledge about the topic so they can critically review and evaluate the trustworthiness of the output. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What GenAI tools can you use?

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Prompting ChatGPT To get an effective end product, craft well-structured and contextually relevant prompts that will yield accurate and valuable outputs from ChatGPT. Goal : To review key topics Prompt: I want to review (concept/skill) with college students. Artificial intelligence in education: A review. Hussain, M.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2023

Higher education has become a black hole for money, with innumerable expenditures on personnel and programs that would never pass the test of the market. She writes: “The Faculty Retirement Incentive Program (FRIP), if funded, would provide institutions with flexibility, improve university productivity, and save money in the long run.”

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HEPI

APRIL 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Vincenzo Raimo, an independent international higher education consultant and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading, where he previously served as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement. The questionnaire mentioned in this blog is embedded as a pdf below and can be downloaded from the website.

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HEPI

JUNE 18, 2023

In the UK there was early support for open publishing of educational resources through a time-limited project to stimulate innovation in the higher education sector, as well as a large repository for discovering and sharing OERs. Global access can make a contribution towards reducing global inequality in access to higher education.

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EAB

JANUARY 20, 2023

Blogs Why your institution needs an up-to-date flexible work policy Remote and hybrid work is here to stay , and effective flexible work arrangements can help your institution attract and retain top talent, improve productivity, and conserve space and energy. Next step: Begin drafting your institution’s policy.

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University Business

MARCH 11, 2024

With public trust in higher education waning and a barrage of reports illustrating the middling outcomes associated with Americans who earn a college degree, state lawmakers are fighting to restore public trust in their institutions by promising to hold them more accountable.

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HEPI

JANUARY 18, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Pat Tissington , Academic Director (Employability and Skills) at the University of Warwick and Dr Pat Mertova , Consultant in Higher Education and Policy at the Associates in Higher Education Policy, Development and Quality (AHEPDQ).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Cases are engaging, ask learners to work at higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy (i.e., For this reason, the best users of GenAI are those who have existing knowledge about the topic so they can critically review and evaluate the trustworthiness of the output. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What GenAI tools can you use?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Because the primary mission of most institutions of higher education is to serve students, it’s easy to understand why attention to faculty and staff well-being was considered a lower priority. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being, and why should higher education pay attention?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Because the primary mission of most institutions of higher education is to serve students, it’s easy to understand why attention to faculty and staff well-being was considered a lower priority. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being, and why should higher education pay attention?

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 4, 2023

Whether your school has already established a content production pipeline or is just starting with the process, there’s value in returning to the fundamentals. A boost in team productivity and efficiency. As you increase your content production, you can add blog posts with every new row. Improved KPIs and better quality work.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In the ever-changing landscape of higher education, colleges and universities must adapt to stay relevant and competitive. Successful evolution will look different for every institution, but there are key considerations and principles that higher ed leaders should keep in mind as they plan and prepare for change.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 27, 2023

As you may or may not know, we’ve been undertaking an accessibility review and revision of our entire website and document development practices. In fact, stay tuned here at WCET Frontiers for a post from Rosa with more details on our website review journey. This month WCET has focused on accessibility. The post Why Not Both?:

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Counter-productive. As reported in The PIE, the home secretary James Cleverly announced that the Migration Advisory Committee has been asked to review the Graduate Route – the UK’s current post-study work visa. The biggest issue right now is the uncertainty created by a pending review. “Incoherent. Short-sighted. Cack-handed.

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

Jack Grove had reported for Times Higher Education on 15 March 2023 that analysis by economist Paolo Crosetto (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France) showed “the number of MDPI’s special issues continued to rise sharply in 2022. In 2022, 17,777 special issues published content.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Stacy Burnett What was once a small effort available to approximately 20 carceral sites has now grown its reach to be available to more than 1,000, said Stacy Burnett, senior product manager for JSTOR’s parent company, ITHAKA. She is also the one leading the JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative. So, we didn't realize the pool was that large.”

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This is especially true for higher education. They can also be required to hold several meetings to plan their work, put it together, review, and refine it. This requires students to do research and exercise their higher-order thinking skills. Student collaboration : Provide students with tasks that require teamwork.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. However, if the content has neither, the likelihood of me reviewing the content is nearly zero. Equity in education is important because it builds self-confidence and aids students in becoming productive members of society. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2019.00152

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EAB

JANUARY 1, 2024

From enrollment trends to revenue and expenses, faculty and instructional productivity, and student success rates, the sheer variety and volume of data available as part of the portfolio assessment process can be overwhelming. At this stage, review institutional policies to ensure common faculty and student issues are addressed appropriately.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

students; hiring trained science communicators; freeing up faculty time for public outreach; improving incentives surrounding the peer-review system; and drafting clear codes of conduct on how to manage online harassment and threats—then supporting and protecting researchers under fire. Mary Woolley, president of Research!

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

From the wider release of ChatGPT and the edtech sub-sector jumping on AI technology to supercharge its products, to HEIs debating how it could be used , whether for good or evil, we haven’t been able to stop talking about its implications. AI Artificial Intelligence has been one of the biggest talking points in 2023.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Review Course Objectives. First and foremost, you’ll need to review your course objectives and outcomes before developing anything new. Review Course Content. Do a thorough review of your courses and create a list of topics and subtopics for each. It may never be a “final” product. New ending.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

Only 146 colleges and universities—less than 4% of all higher education institutions—have reached this pedestal. The grant would be used to develop schools’ physical infrastructure and increase their research productivity and partnerships, thereby qualifying them for ranking up.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

In doing so, the company will try to convince its significant subscriber base in higher ed and beyond that it has the solution—or at least an essential piece of the solution—to the latest technological threat to academic integrity. “Turnitin is answering that call.”

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 25, 2024

In case you haven’t noticed, the higher education world is highly focused on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the present and future of postsecondary education. While the AI-generated product still required review, it streamlined the faculty member’s process.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

AI can support educators in reviewing text, ensuring that plain language is used, and transforming text to multiple means of communication. By embracing the evolution of AI, we will be able to save time, obtain necessary support, stimulate our creative minds, and increase productivity for all. Educational Research Review, 30, 100326.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Designing effective feedback processes in higher education : A learning-focused approach. Carless, D., & Winstone, N.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

After some reflection, I have come to believe that, in the long run, worrying about how students might use AI to cheat is not the most productive question to focus on. It might preclude the writing process in favor of a product and it might well assess how someone writes under pressure. Peer review. Analyze what it writes.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 6, 2023

You as an instructor have the freedom to choose any Cengage product (or multiple products) that are right for your course—which means no more hours of searching for or gathering of resources from multiple places. There’s something to be said for good product training, customer support and easy-to-find resources.

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