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Sharon Leung: Innovation at the Crux of Healthcare and Engineering with CU Boulder Online

Coursera blog

For Sharon Leung, a dedicated healthcare professional with 15 years of experience, the pursuit of an engineering degree might seem a bit off course. However, Sharons commitment to lifelong learning and innovative problem-solving led her to enroll in the online Master of Engineering in Engineering Management program at CU Boulder.

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Riding the wave of technological change to enable transformative learning for all

HEPI

On learning about the focus of the discussion, we chatted about the use of Generative AI tools amongst her peer group, and she wondered why my contemporaries were so flustered by this latest advance in technology. In this way, there has always been a next generation technology ; I have always been riding the wave of technological change.

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Generative AI: a technology that “makes previously exclusive interactions available to all”?

HEPI

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. Generative AI could be viewed similarly as “a technology that makes previously exclusive interactions available to all”. This raised questions.

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ChatGPT Wrote This Article and then Totally Stole My Job!

eLiterate

I’ve been fascinated by the rapid progression of ChatGPT article fads: Look at this weird thing that writes stuff! I asked ChatGPT to write this article—and it totally did!!! So ChatGPT, the miracle of modern technology destined to destroy all education, is not as “smart” as a calculator. Or magazine articles?

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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While women have achieved parity in some STEM fields, such as biological sciences, they remain underrepresented in high-paying and high-demand areas like engineering and computer science. The absence of minority voices in the development of resources, technologies, and healthcare solutions often results in the neglect of entire communities.

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UIUC Leads Effort to Make Speech Recognition Technology More Inclusive

Insight Into Diversity

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are trained using large datasets from public audiobook websites, resulting in technology that excels at transcribing voices similar to professional narrators but struggles with challenges like second-language accents, underrepresented dialects, and speech impacted by disabilities.

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Yet the humanities are crucial , even—or especially— in a world that prioritizes science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. Similarly, good engineering seeks to improve the human condition, like the LEED-certified building methods that minimize negative impacts on the environment.