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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

IDs specialize in integrating and managing learning tools and systems, creating multimedia content, designing interactive simulations, building e-learning courses, and eliminating technology shortcomings of professors (Kenny, Zhang, Schwier, & Campbell, 2005). Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology 31 (1), 1499-667.

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Explore the Technology Behind Today’s HyFlex Classroom

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In 2005, more than a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the modern era of online and hybrid learning in higher education, this classroom on the campus of San Francisco State University was outfitted for the budding field of online learning. Room 170 at Burk Hall was ahead of its time.

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Will GenAI narrow or widen the digital divide in higher education?

SRHE

Introduction the widening digital divide Our recent study ( Zhou et al , 2025 ) surveyed 595 undergraduate students across the UK to examine the evolving digital divide across all forms of digital technologies. Build digital communities and peer networks : Social connection is a key enabler of learning ( Siemens, 2005 ).

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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

IDs specialize in integrating and managing learning tools and systems, creating multimedia content, designing interactive simulations, building e-learning courses, and eliminating technology shortcomings of professors (Kenny, Zhang, Schwier, & Campbell, 2005). Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology 31 (1), 1499-667.

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INTO launches new AI admissions service  

The PIE News

. “We provide detailed feedback to students and counsellors, guiding them on application requirements, while also customising the application package to meet the specific needs of each university,” Andy Fawcett, INTO ‘s chief technology officer and executive vice president of global admissions told The PIE News.

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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shirley Ann Jackson is the 18th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological university in the U.S. Time Magazine in 2005 hailed her as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science,” having held senior leadership positions in government, industry, research and academe.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Learning style instruments help students and faculty consider the depth of learning and teaching opportunities (Kolb & Kolb, 2005). Syncing educational and workforce technologies Furthermore, in the past two decades, learning activities have morphed from the traditional classroom to online or multimedia instruction. IGI Global.