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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. An FRN membership lets financially pressed universities like mine leverage NYU’s resources to offer great opportunities for professional development and scholarly production.

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Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar

CAPD

Lolla, a senior from Clarksburg, Maryland, is majoring in computer science and minoring in mathematics and literature. At Cambridge, she will pursue an MPhil in technology policy. She has presented her work at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

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To Weather the Storms of Higher Education, Remember Why You’re There

Supporting Student Success

In 2008, I was recruited to run a grant with the purpose of connecting adult learners with data to inform their college choices so they didn’t need to depend on marketing hype from lead generation websites. But he always wanted to pursue a degree in computer science—he loved technology. She earned her Ed.D.

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The Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain: Ensuring Quality and Excellence in Higher Ed Institutions

Creatrix Campus

Providing guidance and support to institutions in the development of their academic programs and the implementation of new technologies and pedagogical approaches. Student support services: The HEC evaluates the availability and quality of student support services, such as counseling and career services, at each institution.

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Let’s Stop Talking About ChatGPT

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Weissman goes on to suggest some possible early defenses, such as more in-class assignments, or internet-disabled computer labs on campus where writing can occur. Granting this much power and agency to a nonliving piece of technology that we control seems counterproductive to me.

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Announcing a Design/Build Workshop Series for an AI Learning Design Assistant (ALDA)

eLiterate

For a price that you may well have in your professional development budget? Here’s how we’ll do it: Guided prompt engineering: Your learning designers probably already have interview questions for the basic information they need to design a lesson, module, or course. What are the learning goals? Wanna play?

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Is HyFlex a viable teaching approach in 'normal' times?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Enilda Romero-Hall is an associate professor in the learning design and technology program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; she started teaching HyFlex before the pandemic and got her Ph.D. I got to the point where I understood the basics enough that I was starting to informally coach some of my colleagues on it.