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University of Miami Computer Science Student Fuels “Accelerate Tech” Pilot Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Davenport, a freshman computer science major from Washington Township, New Jersey is the first facilitator for a new computer science “Accelerate Tech” pilot program that has been incorporated into the Saturday school programming at Earlington Heights Elementary School.

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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. This is one in a series of articles about New York University's Faculty Resource Network.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. In this cat-and-mouse game, some computer scientists are working to make AI writers more humanlike, while others are working to improve detection tools. Academic fields make progress in this way.

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Digital community lends academic support

Confessions of a Community College Dean

College of Information Technology leaders at Western Governors University created digital support communities for students to receive real-time assistance from peers and faculty while engaging in self-paced learning. When students ask questions, those questions go beyond generic information and range in complexity.

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AI in Content Marketing: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Higher Ed Marketing

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

surrounding the technology is all about. For most people, ChatGPT was their introduction to large language model (LLM) AI, a technological advancement distinguished by several key features. These advanced features fundamentally alter how we can interact with machines and access information. Scale: LLMs are massive.

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With ChatGPT, we must teach students to be editors (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As a composition instructor and sometime creative writer, I admit to being stung by the email informing me “that we’re making some changes to our content priorities and production volume, and unfortunately, we won’t be able to offer you hours after this week. Why not rely on help from technology?

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. The chat bot is in such high demand that, during this time this article was written, it was at capacity.) Think a Few Years Out.