Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. GenAI Academy for Executives helps leaders enhance their ethical and strategic decision-making For executives, GenAI strategy formulation and technology adoption are high-stakes decisions.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

. “With the rise of populism, cultural diplomacy has become critical to counter perceptions and to influence the middle ground” Tammy Sandhu, British deputy consul-general, asserted that the study of historical cultural exchanges helps inform an approach to international diplomacy and cross-border relations. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Those assignments acknowledge the usefulness and the limitation of the technology, which cannot detect or differentiate human bias and negative stereotypes in the almost limitless field of data and information from which it pulls its answers. Dr. Vaughn A. In a world where data is king,” says Calhoun, “AI is a superpower.”

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The partnership combines Liaison’s innovative technology with NAGAP’s graduate enrollment expertise to transform graduate education and enrich professional growth. Through this partnership, NAGAP and Liaison intend to bring a proven technology platform to additional colleges and universities across the country,” Ramsdell said.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. But there are limits to technological finesse. Rama Chellappa asks Can We Trust AI?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Chat GPT and other innovations that make use of artificial intelligence technologies are brought forward, faculty members and administrators throughout the academic community are appropriately raising concerns about their potential adverse effects on the higher education experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android. Certainly, engineering and technology students would do well to ponder those issues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may facilitate widespread cheating. Inside Higher Ed caught up with 11 academics to ask how to harness the potential and avert the risks of this game-changing technology.

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PeopleAdmin

AUGUST 4, 2023

Here’s what to expect: Faculty Information System updates: CV Templates and Downloads: Academic leaders building CV templates can leverage the ‘drag & drop’ feature to easily reorder activity types such as research publications or service work. For more information on recent and upcoming product enhancements, visit our community.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Robin noted that usage of generative AI represented one of the fastest technology take ups in human history. In a focus group, students reported using tools extensively on a daily basis, but said they were unclear on appropriate usage and expressed concern about the accuracy of information generated. James Gray.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

History will record the 2020s as not only the decade that ushered in a global pandemic, but also one that generated some of the fastest developments in artificial intelligence. A seamless blending of the human agent with AI The future of higher education is here, and it is no longer going to be hybrid.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” The passage then goes on to say, “And the Word was made flesh …” These clauses are typically interpreted to mean that a divine plan, divine precepts and injunctions, and divine law preceded and directed human history. That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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PeopleAdmin

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We knew we needed to change—having new employees fill out paperwork was so outdated,” noted Shawna Benson, Administrative Support Specialist for the Information Technology Services Team. The [onboarding] checklist feature is especially helpful for human resources. We have a lot of unique aspects of our university.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Summarily, such DEI inquiry should help detect demonstrated achievement at transferring knowledge, engaging in advocacy, and impacting relevant change in human behavior across diverse groups. There’s more to do, lest the assault on DEI results in a higher education that is more of a business rather than a human development infrastructure.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As Christine Saxman and Shelly Tochluk point out on the blog Teaching While White , the Luskin Center for History and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a five-part rating system meant to help teachers and parents, among others, identify five stages of indoctrination into white nationalist thought.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Much as AI text generation can, I am convinced, strengthen student writing, AI image generators can inform visual literacy and arts education and set a new bar for artistic creativity. Also, imagine if the platform extracted campus-specific information about gen ed and major requirements.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 10, 2023

My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash Digital learning, which I define as any learning environment that uses digital technologies, is everywhere. Providing access to students who benefit from assistive technologies.

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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2023

She noted that HESA educators may find this information useful as they supervise current graduate students. Adding Technology as a competency versus a “thread” running through other competencies, and with a focus on application to holistic student development . By Renn & Reason, 2021). and globally…” (p.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Within community colleges, some programs of study are loosely defined, especially in the humanities, or were never designed to lead to transfer, as in the case of applied associate degrees. And improvement is needed.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? That gentlemanly definition drew a stark contrast between a liberal education, grounded in the arts and humanities and especially the classics, and a more practical, applied, vocational, or pre-professional education. Which degrees earn the most?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

” The database features dashboards with data on MSIs from 2017 to 2021, including information about how many institutions are eligible for MSI status and how many receive federal funding under each MSI category, and enrollment and graduation rates for different types of MSIs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In these early days of the GPT spread, we are largely defenseless against this novel threat to human intelligence and academic integrity. Place a stronger focus on the classroom and human interactions. Rather, we are at a pivotal moment in the history of education. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

” Math instruction “has much to correct [because] the subject and community of mathematics has a history of exclusion and filtering, rather than inclusion and welcoming.” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. ” “Do not include homework … as any part of grading.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Now, 70 years later, the new funds will be used to assist current students who can incur higher college-related expenses related to their disability for such things as assistive technology, or note-takers or interpreters, or for housing that can accommodate large medical equipment, among other things.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It really will make my courses – one on the history of childhood, the other on museums, past, present, and future -- better. What we see, even at this early stage of development, is what many of us imagined Google would become: a magic box that can synthesize vast amounts of information and produce useful outputs.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Universities such as Anáhuac University Network (Red de Universidad Anáhuac) , Ball State University , Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) , London Business School , and S.P. The curriculum will introduce students to contemporary operating systems, hardware, systems programming, cloud technologies, and more.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields. The popularity of majors that lead directly to well-paying jobs, whether in business, engineering, health care or information technology, shows no signs of slackening.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The HEC also evaluates the institution's overall management and governance, including its financial stability, facilities, and human resources. Providing guidance and support to institutions in the development of their academic programs and the implementation of new technologies and pedagogical approaches.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The history of CAA in UAE The history of CAA in UAE The Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) was established in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2006 with the aim of ensuring the quality of higher education and improving the academic standards of higher education institutions in the country.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Even humanities departments would do well foster computational thinking and statistical understanding by exposing students to data mining, data visualization, geospatial analysis, and network analysis. As Ryan Craig has pointed out, every sector of the economy has embraced software and technology tools that give job applicants a leg up.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history. For more information about the Cooke Transfer Scholarship and the application process, launching in October, click here. This holds true for selective institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Drumm McNaughton In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, listeners will gain an overview of how technology is reshaping the EdTech arena and the potential risks of the current state of OPMs. These agreements are not just on paper; they are integrated into a sophisticated technological system.

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