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Effective Strategies for Sustaining Student Attention during PowerPoint Lectures

Faculty Focus

So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? While I think it may be true that attention spans have decreased in the last several decades, many educators have not changed their teaching style to account for this problem.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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KAVITA BALA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bala earned her bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, and received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She arrived at Cornell in 1999 as a postdoctoral researcher and became an assistant professor of computer science in 2002.

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The Online Classroom: Trust, Explore, Engage

Faculty Focus

The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant growth in how often higher education institutions offer online coursework and provided K-12 schools with the chance to begin their journeys into allowing students to take online coursework. This was not online education, this was educational triage. That is our first problem.

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The Power of AI and Future of Education is Now: How Teachers and the Taught Can Create the Teaching

Faculty Focus

The Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire, believed in a collaborative approach to education, where both the educator and the learner contribute to the learning process. Now is a great time to cultivate new opportunities and mitigate the challenges that, for long, faced both educators and learners.

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Europe and Africa strengthen research ties in mathematics 

The PIE News

The CoRE initiative was launched in the summer of 2023 to establish ties between researchers from Africa and Europe, addressing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals through research, education, capacity building, mobility and innovation.

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Report: Journalism Jobs to Decrease in Years to Come Due to Industry Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More than a third of journalism jobs will be lost 2002-2031 from decades of decline primarily due to newspaper downsizing and closures, a Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) report found. Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale, lead report author and CEW director.

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