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Using Generative AI to “Hack Time” for Implementing Real-World Projects

Faculty Focus

We piloted the two bots in a Strategic Communications course taught at the NYU School of Professional Studies, Division of Programs in Business, during the spring 2024 semester. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in database development, web technologies, IT management, business communication, and project development.

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India a ‘target country’ for Finland’s Talent Boost program

The PIE News

Students from India who study in Finnish institutions usually go for science and technology courses, said Lhdevirta. Of course the companies do a lot for their own workforces, I hope that Finnish vocational training institutes and universities of applied sciences develop more contacts with their Indian counterparts.

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Wentworth Institute of Technology to Drop Pre-Calculus Admissions Requirement for STEM Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Wentworth Institute of Technology is dropping its pre-Calculus admissions requirement, opening its doors to a wider range of students looking to pursue STEM degrees there. Deirdre Donovan, the inaugural director of first-year math in Wentworth's School of Computing and Data Science. She joined the Boston school in 2022.

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Ask not what you can do for engineering…

HEPI

This piece considers how the school curriculum can be adapted to develop creativity, practical skills, and inclusive, real-world learning. It might be reasonable then to suppose that the school curriculum would be designed to prepare pupils for a sector that accounts for a fifth of UK jobs and a quarter of vacancies. [i]

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Using Generative AI to “Hack Time” for Implementing Real-World Projects

Faculty Focus

We piloted the two bots in a Strategic Communications course taught at the NYU School of Professional Studies, Division of Programs in Business, during the spring 2024 semester. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in database development, web technologies, IT management, business communication, and project development.

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Not using AI is “disservice” to students 

The PIE News

I don’t think any of us predicted how rapidly generative AI would change and the opportunity of educational technology,” online education expert Martin Bean CBE told The PIE News , identifying four major challenges for universities’ uptake of AI. So, what’s behind universities’ hesitancy? “I

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Seed Investments Fund 15 Research Collaborations Between Virginia Tech and Minority-Serving Institutions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to And another award is being co-funded by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) on top of the seed investment – a total of $40,000 over two years.