Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). 2018; Zhao et al.,

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

Carnegie Mellon University became the first in 2018. California Institute of Technology: Students pursuing an undergraduate major in computer science can go down different “tracks” related to machine learning. Colleges and universities have slowly begun to launch undergraduate degrees in AI. That was six years ago.”

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2020, over 3,300 US students studied in India in 2018-2019, which further fell to 1,736 students in 2019-20, according to the US Department of State. If we are going to build a human bridge, we have to know each other and understand our histories,” said Garcetti. “We

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

But Heller is one of many to spot the four horsemen—call them defunding, recession, self-sabotage and artificial intelligence—on the humanities’ horizon. Heller makes only parenthetical reference to institutions, like the University of California, Berkeley , that have seen rising enrollments in humanities.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

The UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 introduced strict rules and fines for data mismanagement, forcing a shift in data processes. Bias and unfairness in the academic world have been persistent, though emerging technologies have revolutionised how students find information and write assignments, making academic dishonesty more accessible.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

Proximity of human relationships One of the greatest challenges for an online asynchronous program is the lack of proximity the faculty has with their students. Teaching in a traditional classroom arena has a clear understanding of the proximity of the faculty to the student (Dyer, Arox, & Larson, 2018). Aroz, J., & Larson, E.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Instead, these layouts often lead to increased distractions and reduced personal control, negatively impacting both productivity and employee wellbeing (Bernstein and Turban, 2018). Open-plan offices, however, often contribute to decreased wellbeing due to limited privacy and excessive noise (Delle Macchie et al , 2018, Laughton, 2017).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

Proximity of human relationships One of the greatest challenges for an online asynchronous program is the lack of proximity the faculty has with their students. Teaching in a traditional classroom arena has a clear understanding of the proximity of the faculty to the student (Dyer, Arox, & Larson, 2018). Aroz, J., & Larson, E.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

What is the role for human agency in these types of assemblages with human and non-human actors, so as not to feel helpless or a “cog” while respecting the need to de-centre the human? The agency of humans is constrained by the people, technologies and materials we are bound to or surrounded by.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Faculty need empathetic support as they adapt to the technologies encroaching upon their familiar pedagogies. Design Thinking (DT) reminds us instead to begin with audience analysis: the first step in DT is to consider your “users’” needs (Raz 2018). February 7, 2018. Patterns 4 (7): 100779. Accessed Jan. Raz, Ariel.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Faculty need empathetic support as they adapt to the technologies encroaching upon their familiar pedagogies. Design Thinking (DT) reminds us instead to begin with audience analysis: the first step in DT is to consider your “users’” needs (Raz 2018). February 7, 2018. Patterns 4 (7): 100779. Accessed Jan. Raz, Ariel.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 2, 2023

Research in neuroscience and advancements in technology provide critical insight about the brain and learning. With approximately 100 billion neurons and over 100 trillion synaptic connections, “there are more neurons in a single human brain than stars in the milky way!” ( Colón-Ramos Lab, 2023 ). ( Colón-Ramos Lab, 2023 ).

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2023

The organisation’s director general took a hard stance on the “attack” on the Taliban forces banning education for women in the country, reiterating that “education is a human right”. “No Locked down Afghan students may have access to technology. No country in the world should bar women and girls from receiving an education.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

Or think about the late Thomas Knorr, a physics professor at Wheeling Jesuit: he began his intro class by handing students a long, narrow piece of wood and asking them to develop a unit of measurement that they would then have to use all term (Hanstedt, 2018). References Hanstedt, Paul. Creating Wicked Students. Takayama, Kathy.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

Or think about the late Thomas Knorr, a physics professor at Wheeling Jesuit: he began his intro class by handing students a long, narrow piece of wood and asking them to develop a unit of measurement that they would then have to use all term (Hanstedt, 2018). References Hanstedt, Paul. Creating Wicked Students. Takayama, Kathy.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

Leading human resource associations such as the Society for Human Resource Management advocate using design thinking to redesign careers by focusing on curiosity, finding the right problem to solve, prototyping various career options, and seeking help from others (Hirsch, 2017). Society of Human Resource Management.

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The PIE News

JULY 10, 2023

A 2022 investigation by a national newspaper uncovered that Ugandan students at Chungchou University of Science and Technology were being forced to work long hours in factories as “interns”. In 2018, 40 Sri Lankan students were discovered having been forced to work in slaughter houses.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“Advances in technology are inevitable. I’m taking four courses this term and this is the only time that the impact of AI has been brought up, even though my other courses are computer science and engineering where this technology is going to be most disruptive. References Admin (2023). This Time is Different. Elearnspace.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 22, 2024

The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a similar update to Section 504 regulations requiring WCAG 2.1 A/AA conformance for digital content in a wide array of health and human services. In 2018, the 2.1 What is WCAG? WCAG is not new. The first version of the guidelines, WCAG 1.0, was completed.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

Since 2018, approximately 20% of the high school’s graduating class has gone on to study at Sacred Heart, Fox61 reports, and its recent designation as an IB institution will further spur cross-sector education. Some institutions have responded by retooling their academic programs by providing more vocational, skills-based education.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“Advances in technology are inevitable. I’m taking four courses this term and this is the only time that the impact of AI has been brought up, even though my other courses are computer science and engineering where this technology is going to be most disruptive. References Admin (2023). This Time is Different. Elearnspace.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

Leading human resource associations such as the Society for Human Resource Management advocate using design thinking to redesign careers by focusing on curiosity, finding the right problem to solve, prototyping various career options, and seeking help from others (Hirsch, 2017). Society of Human Resource Management.

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Academic Tech Tips

MAY 21, 2024

This includes student-to-instructor exchange, as a common approach to online learning via prerecorded lectures and auto-graded feedback leaves students without a feeling of human connection or presence—hardly collaborative. CAST (2018). Such collaboration is not synonymous with lack of direction, support, or inclusion for its members.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Further, school counselors must be trained in using an equity-based lens to help students of color explore various career options and postsecondary opportunities in preparation to enter a global, diverse, and technological workforce. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Tanya J.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Video-based learning is a powerful tool for many reasons; one study even notes that “well selected online educational video lectures advance students’ communication on the discourse level, critical thinking, deep learning, and future employability” (Elgeddawy, 2018, 726). Elgeddawy, Mohamed (2018). Dweck, Carol. Nkealah, N.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Training in ethics, however, is a necessary but not sufficient condition to avert technology’s unintended consequences, Liskov said. The forum is an intimate, invitation-only gathering modeled after its scientific partner, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings held each July in Lindau, Switzerland. Departments Spread Too Thin.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When President LeBlanc began his first higher ed leadership position in 1996, the year of the dotcom boom, he saw a role for digital technology at Vermont's small, struggling Marlboro College. "I We started a conversation about the impact of technology. And it's really about our humanity. Disruptive Innovation and Higher Ed.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018. Respondents reported job titles including senior manager, senior director, CEO, executive vice president and human resources manager or director.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Among the programs are accounting, business administration, health administration and services, finance, human resources, and marketing. The George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology offers both undergraduate and graduate programs with in-person and online options. In 2018, Larry and Beth Gies gave $150 million.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology (BLAST) serves rising ninth and 10th graders, designed to help students find their place in STEM. One of the most popular programs is C-Tech², designed for rising high school junior and senior girls, giving them access to information and technology necessary to prepare for their futures.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Video-based learning is a powerful tool for many reasons; one study even notes that “well selected online educational video lectures advance students’ communication on the discourse level, critical thinking, deep learning, and future employability” (Elgeddawy, 2018, 726). Elgeddawy, Mohamed (2018). Dweck, Carol. Nkealah, N.

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Empower Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Environment 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Lee says one of the department’s solutions for adapting to the pandemic was to provide technology scholarships that enable students to purchase tech items with which to do their research and assignments at home. A master’s program was launched in 2018, and in spring 2022, the state legislature approved a Ph.D. program. “But

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

The humanities are well represented in the new programs we are developing.” He noted that Vermont Law School required faculty members involved in restructuring in 2018 to relinquish their tenured status and faculty voting rights, sign a general and age-discrimination release, and agree to nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Furthermore, the entire racist mentality of “replacement” is premised on the false belief that race is biological, a pseudoscientific idea that humans can be divided into biologically distinct races and positioned on a hierarchy. Today they can help repair that legacy of harm by exposing this growing racist myth for what it is.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Between 2018 and 2020, seven University Innovation Alliance institutions utilized change management and human-centered design principles to identify and deconstruct barriers to successful career readiness for first-generation and low-income students.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Its founders began the project in 2018 with support from the Estonian ministry of education, under the umbrella of Start-Up Estonia. DreamApply – a known software solution for admissions management, specialising in technology for student onboarding and admissions – actually comes out of Estonia.

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