Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

“Most humans encountered the clowns, and it was like the magnetic opposition,” Grundy said. To spur people to consider the “noise” of a denial-of-service attack, Tanner Upthegrove, a media engineer at Virginia Tech, created Tesseract , an immersive audio experience. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Image: When humans write, they leave subtle signatures that hint at the prose’s fleshy, brainy origins. Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. Such attributes betray the text’s humanity.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Randall Collins' blog The Sociological Eye.] It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. Will humans still be employed 20 years from now?

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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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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

PURE Inspiration The momentum behind the (dis)Ability Design Studio comes from collaboration on the wheelchair of the future between McDonagh, Bleakney, and other researchers in the Human Performance and Mobility Maker Lab (HPML). This article was published in our March 2023 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. million Andrew W.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2024

Earlier in May 2024, HEPI, with support from learning technology service Studiosity, hosted a roundtable dinner to discuss how important the human touch is in the age of AI learning. But will there still be a place for a human touch? This blog considers some of the themes that emerged from the discussion.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Kelly Kang, who manages the survey for the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, said the pandemic indeed “appears to be one of the factors in a significant decline in the number of doctorate recipients in 2021.” Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They started with prompt engineering. You can’t answer these questions confidently without the help of actual humans who would be using the product. At any rate, Khan Academy realized their early prompt engineering attempts had several shortcomings. Well-written prompts are miracles. They’re like magic spells.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

The chat bot is in such high demand that, during this time this article was written, it was at capacity.) For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. in 2015,” ChatGPT replied in a sample presented on the OpenAI website.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But those distractions also humanized instructors, according to the study. To humanize online learning, Pacansky-Brock notes, the professor-student relationship should “shift from one of impersonal professionalism toward relational authority. “That’s just as true in a physical classroom as it is online.”

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

AUGUST 27, 2024

Quality SEO Must Go Deeper Than Keyword Rankings Think of a piece of content you’ve engaged with lately, whether it’s a book, movie, or news article. Regardless of the medium, that piece of content probably popped into your mind because it resonated with you on a human, personal level.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Now, the team has introduced a neural network—an AI algorithm inspired by the brain’s structure and function—that solves college-level math problems at a human level in seconds, according to their Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published last month.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” ” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Brown, despite having this country’s oldest applied mathematics program and the Ivy League’s oldest engineering program, isn’t in the Top 30, and Dartmouth isn’t among the Top 50 US and Canadian universities. Contributing to this ethos is an engineering, hands-on mind-set.

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HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

It is strange to remember a time before I communicated so habitually through email, the first time I used an academic search engine, or ventured into a virtual learning environment.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Using AI in Higher Ed Content Creation The ability of LLMs to generate text that closely mimics human writing has obvious significance for anyone involved in creating content. Additionally, these tools are changing search engine optimization (SEO) by automating the analysis of search trends and competitor strategies.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Then, a day later, and in an apparent effort not to be left out of the AI–chat bot party, Microsoft launched its AI-powered Bing search engine. That is, the bots’ underlying technology—large language models—is intended to mimic human behavior. The company’s stock sank after a series of product missteps.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

On Open Badges alone—a leading format for verifiable, portable digital badges—learners can choose from more than 500,000 verifiable, sharable digital credentials, according to a 1EdTech and Credential Engine report. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 … The technology is simply not there yet.”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 It’s adding them July 1.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“Hopkins engineers very closed and stage-managed town halls and does not execute any changes based on these town halls.” She also said the MOU was published as early as possible. “This process has been going on for years,” Dr. Berger said. ” Branville Bard Jr.,

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

With new federal grant funding, the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has implemented several programs that bolster support for students with disabilities who pursue degrees and careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Recent press (including this from the NYT ), in part the reason for the delay in issuing this second of four short articles, have highlighted how deeply unpopular the concept of an immersive working environment in the Metaverse actually may prove to be. There is no doubt that the human brain is clever. We don’t have it yet.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. These keywords help search engines understand the user’s intentions, motivations, and expectations for the results.

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Today's Learner

AUGUST 30, 2024

Forbes defines it as “a computer program that simulates human conversation.” A prompt is a mode of interaction between a human and a large language model that lets the model generate the intended output. An example of the prompt I use is “Discussion board prompt related to business ethics in engineering.” But what is a chatbot?

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 10, 2023

Reading Time: 10 minutes Like search engine algorithms, SEO trends are constantly changing. This pushes schools to apply SEO best practices to cultivate a competitive edge and improve their organic performance on search engines. Knowing how to leverage the search engine for schools through optimization is also key in 2023.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. These keywords help search engines understand the user’s intentions, motivations, and expectations for the results.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Elicit provides a quick summary of articles using a research question as a prompt, making it easier for students to find relevant information from a database of open-access journal articles. Their engineers are working on a watermarking process to label generated text in order to curb intentional misuse, like academic cheating.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. With a background in engineering, he is passionate about the use of technology in higher education.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

This article first appeared in Academic Leader on February 19, 2024 © Magna Publications. If you are interested in reading more articles about the trends, challenges, and best practices of today’s academic decision-makers, check out a monthly or yearly subscription to Academic Leader! All rights reserved. What is the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

This article first appeared in Academic Leader on February 19, 2024 © Magna Publications. If you are interested in reading more articles about the trends, challenges, and best practices of today’s academic decision-makers, check out a monthly or yearly subscription to Academic Leader! All rights reserved. What is the U.S.

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eLiterate

APRIL 23, 2023

” “ChatGPT will make thinking and humans obsolete.” The technology doesn’t need to (and shouldn’t) produce a perfect, finished draft with zero human supervision. A recent contest challenged AI researchers to develop systems that match human judgment in scoring essays. All six were built on LLMs.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

The same article notes that emergency room deaths are rising in the province while 43,000 people left Nova Scotia emergency rooms without being seen by a doctor last year. ” The same article states, “Some estimates put the number of foreign-trained physicians living in Ontario but not working in their field as high as 13,000.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Johns Hopkins University Press, November ), while Gerd Gigerenzer reassures humanity of its nonobsolescence with How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms ( MIT Press, August ). The age of intelligent machines is far enough along that now they, too, can groan at the time/banana conundrum.

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