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Humane Ingenuity 46: Can Engineered Writing Ever Be Great?

Dan Cohen

Into this landscape a human prompt sets in motion a narrative snowball, which rolls according to the model’s internal physics, gathering words along the way. This is, of course, a recipe for unvaried familiarity, as the angle of the human prompt, like the pool cue, can overdetermine the flow that ensues.

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Ruth Simmons Delivers Stirring Tribute to the Humanities

Inside Higher Ed

Ruth Simmons, president emerita of Prairie View A&M and Brown Universities and Smith College, delivered the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities to a rapt audience at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Tuesday evening.

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The Evolution of the Humanities

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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The arts and humanities: rejecting the zero-sum game

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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Making Arts and Humanities matter

HEPI

Tomorrow, HEPI will be publishing a report on a university turnaround and later this month we will be publishing a new paper on the state of the humanities in UK universities. Things are not getting any easier for the arts and humanities in Higher Education. The post Making Arts and Humanities matter appeared first on HEPI.

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AI ‘not yet ready’ for language testing without humans

The PIE News

English language testing providers are using Artificial Intelligence to enhance the experience of students, but maintaining a human touch within exams is still important as technology develops. “TOEFL is the gold standard in testing and we want to elevate test takers to achieve the best they can,” McWilliams told The PIE.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind Debunked: Humanizing Asynchronous Online Courses Using an Inclusive Survey

Faculty Focus

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.