Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In a recent Bloomberg column, Tyler Cowen offers his diagnosis of what ails higher education. I’ve not heard institutional status as an argument to invest in the English department (at least not since I started working in academia), so maybe my friends in the humanities have found a champion in Cowen.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabelle Hutchinson…is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. True technical innovation always requires the marriage of humanities and technology, anyway. Yet, this picture is a sham.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Launching 8 new degrees, 3 Professional Certificates, and a growing catalog of generative AI content: We’re excited to expand our portfolio of job-relevant online degrees with eight new programs in high-demand areas such as computer science, data science, and business administration.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

The use of ChatGPT by students to deal with course assignments raises ethical questions, many of which were addressed in a blog I wrote last week. There are disciplines that want you to share and don’t want you to spin your wheels,” she said, describing her computer science and statistics classes.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

” How Faculty Can Exploit ChatGPT’s (Current) Weaknesses In the future, faculty members may get formal advice about how to craft assignments in a ChatGPT world, according to James Hendler, director of the Future of Computing Institute and professor of computer, web and cognitive sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I live my life according to a series of mantras. A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. One of which is this: “We must look backward to move forward.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

The humanities are well represented in the new programs we are developing.” ” Cara Cea, college spokesperson, said via email, “We will develop new interdisciplinary programs in line with student interests and workplace needs of today.

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Coursera blog

MAY 8, 2023

By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the transformative force of our era, reshaping industries and redefining the boundaries of human potential. It is also raising new questions about the best way to build these powerful systems that serve humanity in safe and uplifting ways.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ylann Schemm ( @YlannSchemm ), Executive Director of The Elsevier Foundation and Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at Elsevier. Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

When I started graduate studies more than 25 years ago, there was no talk of the world wide web, no blogs, no Twitterverse, Facebook, Academia.edu and so on. This exciting approach to (re)discovery is at the forefront of a variety of (inter/multi/trans)disciplines ranging from bio-informatics and social statistics to the digital humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The past’s meaning only becomes clear in hindsight. Trends that predated the pandemic persisted: the declining number of humanities majors. The intensifying crisis of the humanities. The decline in the number of humanities majors—by half over the past decade—is old news.

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Liaison International

JUNE 30, 2023

The largest growth areas across all countries are biological and agricultural sciences and mathematical and computer sciences, although the arts and humanities, business and education also show growth.”

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

In addition to core courses in finance, marketing, and digital transformation, students can also choose from a variety of electives in AI, data science, cybersecurity, and more. Graduates will be prepared for data science careers in business or industry. The first cohorts are expected to begin in August 2023.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Adding the Human Element. He was the Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to his tenure at Notre Dame, he was Chair of the Department of Computer Science and its Director of Graduate Studies at Georgetown University.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. computer sciences, business administration, education). Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. Q1: Can you help us understand the (perhaps evolving) relationship between budgets, materials, and staffing?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Matin Ghavamizadeh transferred from Los Angeles Valley College to the University of California, Berkeley to double major in applied mathematics/electrical engineering and computer science.

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Coursera blog

MARCH 12, 2024

The post Job search tips for entry-level roles appeared first on Coursera Blog. Otherwise, we’ll be back next week with tips for changing careers. Talk to you then!

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Coursera blog

JUNE 12, 2024

To provide a holistic view, the report now combines our internal proficiency data with leading economic indices, including global innovation , labor force participation , human capital , and GDP per capita. However, fewer than 100,000 US graduates earning engineering and computer science degrees each year.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The four-year graduation rate at the Cal State campuses reached a record high—33 percent—in 2021. A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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Today's Learner

AUGUST 23, 2024

Learning science is the study of how people learn and draws from many disciplines, including psychology, cognitive science, education and pedagogy, computer science, data analysis and statistics, and more. Learning design is the application of learning science to create effective learning experiences.

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Coursera blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The post How Learning Leaders are Prioritizing Job Skills for 2023 appeared first on Coursera Blog. On January 26, leaders from the public and private sectors joined Coursera for a discussion on the skills needed for employment in 2023 and beyond.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer This post continues our City University of New York miniseries about a set of projects, collectively known as A2B , that are reducing barriers to associate’s to bachelor’s (vertical) transfer within the system of seven community colleges and 13 senior colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Artificial intelligence can be defined as computers that can mimic human intelligence. There are great podcasts and blogs devoted to the topic. You can also join your institution’s computer science events to stay up to date on the latest news about AI. How do I know if a student used ChatGPT?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Last week, without putting much thought into it, I put up a Twitter poll asking: “In your opinion would more students major in the humanities if college was tuition free?” Computer science, STEM and medical majors have gobbled up the share that used to belong to the humanities.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

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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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

Most faculty, like myself, do not have a computer science background but need to mitigate the issues technology could present in our courses. As human beings, we are designed to find shortcuts and that has led to great innovation. OpenAI Blog. Retrieved from: [link] Radford, A.,

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

Most faculty, like myself, do not have a computer science background but need to mitigate the issues technology could present in our courses. As human beings, we are designed to find shortcuts and that has led to great innovation. OpenAI Blog. Retrieved from: [link] Radford, A.,

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown: linguistics. There is also the conflict over whether words can inflict violence.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I’ve never really trusted my powers of prediction, but recent weeks have seriously eroded any confidence in my ability to forecast the future. Some recent prophecies have proven particularly wrongheaded.

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UW Presidential Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But it’s notable that he also holds adjunct appointments in bioengineering, genome sciences, physics, chemical engineering and computer science. In addition to holding the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Chair in Biochemistry, David is the Director of the Institute for Protein Design.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 6, 2023

I want diversity in different research areas where you don't anticipate a lot of diversity, like in computer science or economics. It's written around business, but it's actually a book on how are you an authentic human leader in any place. I want my leadership team to reflect that diversity.

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