Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. ” All these responses and more have made me consider the question, “Can art be experienced or art history taught without someone becoming angry?” A chair isn’t art!

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I lost track of the number of times on Friday I heard someone use the word “refreshing.” The conference was co-sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the NJ Council of County Colleges, and it included over 100 people from around the state. History: 3.6

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

history, world history and western civilization. Spielvogel is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at The Pennsylvania State University. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history. in history, and M.A. in art history from The Pennsylvania State University.

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Today's Learner

MARCH 21, 2025

After all, music is such a fundamental human activity. Its one thats existed for as long as humans have made sounds. Its a role music has played throughout history, from ancient traditions to the rise of modern media. Music is also fundamental to our personal histories. We are hardwired for it.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

As AI reshapes simulation-based medical education, LSE HE Blog Fellow, Amy Paterson , shares a range of SBME resources for healthcare professionals Simulation-based medical education (SBME) is a practice-oriented approach to clinical teaching and assessment that uses immersive scenarios to improve technical and decision-making skills.

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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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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2025

Destination long haul; Higher Education residential undergraduate student fieldtrips Outdoor education, particularly fieldtrips, offer a wide array of learner benefits and can be integral to different undergraduate programmes such as Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES), archaeology, history and classics.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Hint: Regular readers of this blog will already know the answer. Some people can get their own blog and offer their own opinions. The histories in the state may include college charters based on special missions, geography, or the need for specialized programs. First, a quiz: What do these states have in common?

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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. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? True technical innovation always requires the marriage of humanities and technology, anyway. Yet, this picture is a sham.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

BY RODOLFO ROSALES Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship recipients have formed a community in which we can share the products of our knowledge, our talents, our research, and our work in the arts, humanities, and sciences—along with many other intellectual accomplishments across the disciplines that have been significant in establishing our footprint (..)

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. The post Coursera Launches GenAI Academy to Improve Executive and Foundational Literacy appeared first on Coursera Blog. Launch partners include Microsoft, Stanford Online, Google Cloud, AWS, DeepLearning.AI

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Professor James Ransom, Head of Research at the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). This blog is the fifth in our series on leadership in partnership with NCEE. Kevin Kerrigan, ‘ Entrepreneurship as a driver of civic value in universities’ , HEPI blog, 29 September 2022.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I live my life according to a series of mantras. Then there is a fourth tradition, which represented a distinctively American contribution: A focus on human capital formation, local and regional economic development, entertainment and sports, and community service. I don’t think so. Apparently not.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The war in Ukraine, says Ronald G. Suny’s emphasis on the power of narrative is in line with a broader drift in scholarship that is exerting a powerful influence on anthropology, history, medicine, psychology and sociology. Human beings are not just political animals or social beings.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma NPR just pulled the plug on its once stunningly popular Invisibilia podcast, which explored “the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” Let’s begin with the history of American higher education. As Professor Labaree makes clear, this history is highly distinctive.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? I think the answer is yes and, as we will see, this builds on the history of university honors, which has radically reworked its model over the past century. Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history. Honors 4.0.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 10, 2025

Reading Time: 6 minutes Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background (current title, professional milestones, professional history, education, research works, hobbies, etc.) Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies, 10 th Edition is a proven, competency-based learning system with a 40-year history of success.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The word “unconscious” is much in the news. But much of our commonsense understanding of human motivation and behavior relies on the concept of the unconscious, for example, when we speak of unconscious racism or implicit bias. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps as an undergraduate you read Oscar Wilde’s mirthful, satiric essay “The Critic as Artist.” It should be read not only by the English professoriate, but by its counterparts in art and music history, history and philosophy.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Emotions are on the bestseller list – and for good reason. Emotions, in Mesquita’s eyes, are culturally specific – and this idea has had far-reaching impact across the humanities and social sciences. Products of history. No longer are emotions the exclusive preserve of psychologists.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The following blog post was created entirely by AI (MS Teams/Claude/ChatGPT/DALL-E). Catherine Mason, an expert in this field, has delved into the history of this evolution, focusing on a central question: Will machines amplify or supersede the artist?

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UW Presidential Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Juneteenth celebrates a transformational event in American history, a period when our nation moved closer to the realization of the abstract notion of equality. That movement is worthy of celebration not only for the sake of the human lives it touched, but for the sake of the promise that such progress holds for the future.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma David Copperfield (1850), the most autobiographical of Charles Dickens’s novels, begins with one of literature’s most famous lines: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The Gospel of John opens with one of the New Testament’s most evocative yet cryptic phrases: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right. But these phrases also allude to words’ immense power.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

AI-ASSISTED COURSE BUILDING POWERED BY GENERATIVE AI – Based on a few simple inputs from a human author, a new set of AI-powered features can auto-generate course content — such as overall course structure, readings, assignments, and glossaries — to help educators dramatically reduce the time and cost of producing high-quality content.

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Liaison International

JUNE 8, 2023

Browse these links and see where you’d like to start, or listen and learn more about the gay community’s history with a podcast or documentary. Advocate: Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Combining AI-driven insights with human empathy ensures ethical, accurate, and meaningful interactions that foster trust and improve the community college student experience. Balancing AI With Human Interaction As powerful as these AI tools for student engagement and personalization are, the human element remains vital.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 30, 2025

“ Did you know ” facts about your institution’s unique features or history How can schools use short-form video to attract students? Point students to recycling initiatives and green campus programs via your social media videos and blogs. The key to creating winning short-form videos is to go for authenticity.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting The leap in capability between ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) ” we should instead be questioning whether or not the things we ask our human students to do are genuinely meaningful experiences related to learning. For example, GPT-4 scores near the 90th percentile on the LSAT and the bar exam.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

In the blog below, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, describes the opportunities and challenges this presents. Not for the first time, Leicester lays claim to be a unique place in the UK. It continues to flourish, promoting social justice and transforming lives.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What a great tag line for a book: “the definitive Freakonomics for sports.” For history, that subject matter is, of course, the past; the discipline’s terminology includes words like “chronology,” “historiography” and “periodization.” Nothing is static.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

by GR Evans This blog was first published in the Oxford Magazine No 475 (Eighth Week, Hilary term, 2025) and is reproduced here with permission of the author and the editor. CUA traced its history back to the Meeting of University Academic Administrative Staff, founded in 1961.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

To begin, this introductory blog post will focus on an overview of large language model AIs and their potential impact on higher education. Much research has humans program machines to behave in a clever way, like playing chess, but, today, we emphasize machines that can learn, at least somewhat like human beings do.”.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ruth Arnold , Director of External Affairs at Study Group. Those which in an age of AI, climate emergency and global conflicts ask what is to be human and how can we live together. We want intelligence with compassion, people with insight also into the human condition. And so it is decided.

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