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The increasing pressure on students after Covid-19

SRHE

This prompted our systematic review article , which examines topics of student engagement, belonging, alienation and resilience, and specifically identifies pressures on current HE students related to these domains. This directly influences student mental health and wellbeing and thus student engagement.

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What could virtual reality mean for higher ed?

EAB

In partnership with ASU faculty, Dreamscape Learn created an immersive, interactive environment called The Alien Zoo , in which students discover that a rare alien species is suffering from a new, undiagnosed ailment and must work to identify its origin and find a way to cure the suffering population.

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Is Poetry Dying?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In Walther’s words: “The culprit,” in poetry’s increasing marginalization, “is not bad pedagogy or formal experimentation but rather the very conditions of modern life, which have demystified and alienated us from the natural world.” Encode, in clauses, the new, nearly ineffable.

IT 96
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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” We ignore students’ disaffection, alienation, disengagement, and pent-up frustration and anger at our peril. In the past, working for higher education, while not as exciting as joining a tech giant or start-up, was an attractive job, with security, impressive benefits, and reasonable work-life balance.

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If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?

The Guardian Higher Education

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. As astronomers comb the cosmos with their powerful telescopes, they spot something that makes them gasp.

IT 99
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How You Will Never Be Able to Trust Generative AI (and Why That’s OK)

eLiterate

As my science geeks say, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” Bringing a generative AI into your team is a little bit like hiring a space alien. Once the paths are established, traversing them seems like science fiction. Generative AI is incredibly useful right now.

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Is DeSantis Right or Wrong?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Some colleges emphasize playing and watching sports, others the life of the mind. Think, for example, of the plague of McCarthyism in the 1950s or the disastrous Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Some valorize business and commerce, others the arts and humanities.