Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

—About a decade ago, nearly all—97 percent—of IBM’s job advertisements required a four-year college degree, according to David Barnes, vice president of global workforce policy at the tech giant, who spoke this week at the annual SXSW EDU conference here. ‘Bad’ Policy No.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it. This then was quite a gap to be bridged.

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Dan Cohen

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. But winemaking is instructive in our technological age because it pushes back against these algorithms. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email. It may be chemical, but it also feels alchemical.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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PeopleAdmin

MAY 5, 2023

HigherEd Human Resources teams cover a lot of ground. HigherEd human resources teams also play a big role in retention and career development, which indirectly impacts the recruitment and hiring process because it determines how long staff and faculty will stay and therefore, how often a position will be open at an institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Student interest will continue to grow when it comes to virtual courses and remote learning options for live courses, the desire for creating richer academic and on-campus experiences, and new technology options. Yet, on many campuses, technology dollars are limited, with a wide variety of initiatives competing for that funding.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Only if we listen with equal parts openness and alarm.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Include necessary background information to help the technology understand the context better.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education (Part I)?- We are talking about how technology influences our work at higher education and student affairs, particularly in international education. We will also talk about what we can do to stand out as student affairs professionals in the age of technology. #22-How

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Leon Burns III To underscore the importance of accessibility, consider this: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes accessibility as a human right. It's about recognizing and celebrating the rich tapestry of human experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. Dr. Antonio L.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Only if we listen with equal parts openness and alarm.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Include necessary background information to help the technology understand the context better.

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ACPA

JULY 7, 2023

How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education (Part II)?- With Hanna Lee Description: This is the second episode of our discussion on technology and international education. Today we are continuing to introduce the trending technology in student affairs and international education.

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Coursera blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Recognizing that a successful transformation requires more than just technology, we prioritized gaining buy-in from stakeholders across Riphah. Establishing centralized governance committees with local integration committees : The centralized CACC monitored progress across schools and set policies.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Early users quickly found that the eerily human-sounding bot produced unhinged , manipulative , rude , threatening and false responses, which prompted the company to implement changes—and AI ethicists to express reservations. That freed her to craft a policy that began from a place of openness and curiosity.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET Preparing Faculty to work with AI The University of Mississippi is pioneering new approaches to prepare faculty for emerging technologies, like generative AI, in the classroom. Together, we built assignments that asked students to engage generative technologies at different points in their writing process.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. Some common CAPTCHA types include: Text-based CAPTCHAs: These CAPTCHAs display a series of distorted letters or numbers that are difficult for bots to read but easy for humans to decipher.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the many urgent discussions I have joined or observed in recent weeks about ChatGPT, I have been surprised to hear no mention of the fact that OpenAI has a Sharing & Publication Policy that not only could, but should, inform educational responses to the use of AI assistance in writing and learning.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

An EDUCAUSE poll that surveyed institutional leaders, technology professionals, and other campus stakeholders found that 67% are optimistic or very optimistic about using AI. I don’t think it does us any good to villainize these technologies, said Rebecca Sandidge, vice president for enrollment management at Oglethorpe University (Ga.).

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PeopleAdmin

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tips and Best Practices for Higher Ed HR Compliance Compliance is a key and complicated part of the role of human resources teams, and this is especially true in higher education. That’s why ensuring compliance is such an important part of the role of higher education human resources teams.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Will technology induce cheating? Yale University’s policy explicitly claims that “one who borrows unacknowledged ideas or language from others is stealing their work.” In this posthuman turn, the potential of theft goes beyond human students stealing from human others. The question is always how technology is used.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Will technology induce cheating? Yale University’s policy explicitly claims that “one who borrows unacknowledged ideas or language from others is stealing their work.” In this posthuman turn, the potential of theft goes beyond human students stealing from human others. The question is always how technology is used.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Interestingly, while many universities have developed policies around generative AI, the more pervasive use of machine translation often goes unnoticed. This oversight raises critical questions about authorship, learning outcomes, and the linguistic competence of graduates in an environment increasingly dependent on technological assistance.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Just three months later, ChatGPT made artificial intelligence a popular reality, and the very definition of knowledge work, and how much of it humans will continue to do, is very much in question. These recent developments in AI have the potential to displace humans from whole categories of knowledge work.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the last several months, WCET has been researching and developing resources on Artificial Intelligence and the use of Generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT in higher education digital learning. CTU’s mission statement includes using technology to educate students. Question 3: What about policies addressing Generative AI?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. Some common CAPTCHA types include: Text-based CAPTCHAs: These CAPTCHAs display a series of distorted letters or numbers that are difficult for bots to read but easy for humans to decipher.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

However, as we perceive these systems to mimic human behaviour, it is important to remember that they are machines. This does not negate the criticisms of those researchers who argue that there is an existential risk to humanity if A.I. These capabilities are not informed by the senses derived from an organic nervous system.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

HEPI has marked the event with a Policy Note on the influence of the Robbins Report and a blog series – you can access all the material here. The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. ChatGPT is based on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which is a type of deep neural network designed to generate human-like text. So how is the technology industry addressing the issue of ‘AIgiarism’ ? What’s the problem?

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The program will be part of the university’s new interdisciplinary College of Design , spanning the humanities and sciences and focusing on technological solutions to global issues such as climate change, according to the university.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

In an  LA Times op-ed published in early 2023, psychologist Angela Duckworth, PhD, argues against banning the bot, explaining that it and similar technologies are here to stay—and that instructors should learn how to incorporate it into curricula. Some schools are blocking the technology altogether. Washington University in St.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By Matt Riddle, Principal and Director of Learning Experiences, Curio The higher education sector is undergoing a technological revolution, with AI tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Midjourney leading the charge. The goal is to mimic the way humans create new ideas, concepts and designs that are both diverse and novel.

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HEPI

MARCH 18, 2024

This HEPI blog was authored by Josh Freeman, Policy Manager at HEPI, with kind contributions from Rebecca Mace, Senior Lecturer and AI Lead at the University of West London (UWL), and UCAS. Using live polling technology Slido , we asked five questions relating to AI use. This blog discusses the results.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

He sees the acquisition as a way to tap into an “underserved technology market” at a time when college leaders are “looking to make transfer a bigger part of their enrollment strategy” in response to pandemic enrollment declines. “It requires advising, program alignment, more human-process sorts of things.”

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HEPI

APRIL 21, 2023

Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. ChatGPT is based on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which is a type of deep neural network designed to generate human-like text. So how is the technology industry addressing the issue of ‘AIgiarism’ ? What’s the problem?

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EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Within UC’s decentralized model, the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services & Information Technology (CECH) built a robust Student Services Center that provides guidance to students via a team of academic advisors, career development specialists, retention program managers, and a licensed counselor and social worker.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this depiction, there is not a human teacher in sight, just robotic Miss Brainmocker. It’s safe to say, that in the future there is either no Department of Education or a Department that has made its peace with the role of technology-assisted instruction, or at least the role of artificial intelligence.

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