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Searching for the Optimal Class Design to Maximize Learning

Faculty Focus

Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? References McKinney, K.

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Academic Twitter is worth fighting for (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But if the many doomsday projections actually come to fruition, losing Twitter will be a sad day for academia. In a frequently alienating world of academia, that is huge. In addition to posting published articles, with long threads explaining their findings, researchers also post ideas, preprints and working drafts.

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These 25 schools are tops for producing the nation’s leaders

University Business

As might be expected, the Ivy League Pluses were responsible for producing the majority of leaders across sectors such as law, media and academia. faculty, according to one 2022 study published in Nature.

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. Yet the humanities are crucial , even—or especially— in a world that prioritizes science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. The goal of the course was to use fiction to spur ethical reflection on technological developments.

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With ChatGPT, we must teach students to be editors (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

As my side gig ground on, my editor kept demanding that I churn out articles in about 20 minutes. I was being paid $25 an hour to write three short articles on topics related to car care and travel. In a 2016 article about Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor to Ernest Hemingway, F. Why not rely on help from technology?

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A ChatGPT generated post (and a first year librarian’s thoughts)

ACRLog

As I’m sure anyone in academia is aware, ChatGPT and its AI counterparts are taking us by storm. I know I’m a bit late to the conversation, but it does feel like AI technology has exploded (or maybe I haven’t been paying attention before now). MIT Technology Review. Get ChatGPT to generate something. Undoubtedly.

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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But if top universities genuinely want to lead, a key roadblock remains: around the nation and the world, leading institutions are structurally unprepared for the fossil fuel industry’s assault on the interests and values of academia. Academia is founded on the premise of truth seeking.

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