EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 30, 2023

Last month, Progress Software announced that its popular file-transfer tool MOVEit was compromised by cybercriminals. The breach gave the attackers “unauthorized access to the MOVEit transfer database,” putting many large, sometimes sensitive files sent through the platform at risk. For colleges and universities that used MOVEit, including Johns Hopkins University, the attack triggered a campuswide security response.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 30, 2023

I have been a high school experiential educator for over a decade, and my dominant approach has been self-directed project-based learning. Students design and execute their projects from start to finish with my guidance. But it's not perfect. That is the reality. The project-based learning that I discuss in this post is student-led. Students design and lead their own PBLs.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 30, 2023

The technology is already making an impact in the classroom aside from applications like chatbots, according to Dr. Trey Conatser, director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at the University of Kentucky, and a member of the school’s ADVANCE committee, which studies the opportunities and challenges of AI in university settings.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 30, 2023

DWP asks one postgraduate to find £24,000 despite being told she was entitled to the universal credit claim Single mothers on postgraduate courses say they are being unfairly pursued by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over thousands of pounds in benefits which officials claim were paid in error. One researcher faces a demand of more than £24,000 after having been told she was entitled to claim universal credit.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 30, 2023

For smart universities, the changes will allow them to focus on their unique selling points with high quality customer information about price, excellence and graduate employability. The onus will be on institutions to genuinely respond to student expectations rather than using rankings as a surrogate for quality. No need to pay middle men in the form of agents and aggregators because the students can do the searching for themselves.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 30, 2023

President of Universities UK says ‘massive expansion’ of applicants after Covid will make places harder to secure Students could face tougher competition for places on some courses at leading universities this year after a “massive expansion” of applicants in the wake of the Covid pandemic, the president of Universities UK has warned. As A-level students await their results on 17 August, Sir Steve West said places on research-intensive courses such as medicine and dentistry at Russell Group univ

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 30, 2023

Ron DeSantis’s slew of laws attacking teaching of race and gender issues sees state’s colleges struggle to fill faculty posts With the start of the 2023-24 academic year only six weeks away, senior officials at New College of Florida (NCF) made a startling announcement in mid-July: 36 of the small honors college’s approximately 100 full-time teaching positions were vacant.

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