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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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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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Engaging With AI: 5 Tips for Institutional Leaders

University Business

billion in capital and operating budgets, the report is the premier publication on the key trends and data influencing facilities management in academia today. Skill Fundamentally, is your team interested in engaging with AI or is your organization not yet prepared for this new technology?If

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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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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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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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ChatGPT can help students and faculty with ADHD (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

How could a chat bot that is causing panic in academia leave me with a palpable sense of focus and calm as a professor? I have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and ChatGPT has become my go-to assistive technology for writing and for teaching. Assistive technologies (AT) specifically for folks with ADHD are not new.

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