WCET Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2025

If you joined us at this years WCET virtual summit, The Elements of Humanizing EdTech in Higher Education thank you. It wasnt just another Zoom marathon; dynamic panelists shared their thoughts about the critical components of humanizing teaching and learning with technology. Its about the people behind it.

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Coursera blog

JULY 29, 2024

Coursera spoke with Mohammad, a Senior AI Strategist at a German consulting firm, who was initially both excited and skeptical about the performance of large language models (LLMs). He also feared that only big tech companies could afford to develop the most powerful models, potentially leaving smaller players behind.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 31, 2025

Top courses from universities in 2024 Learners flocked to evergreen topics, including managing financial risk from Yale , training machine learning models from Stanford , and developing English skills from the University of Pennsylvania and Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile. 2024s top new course helps meet the annual demand for 2.3

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Today's Learner

MARCH 31, 2025

Visible Body activities help students exercise factual and spatial knowledge With Visible Body embedded into the MindTap Learning Path, students can access accurate visual representations, anatomically correct 3D models and immersive activities. Interested in exploring MindTap with Visible Body for your Anatomy and Physiology course?

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HEPI

MARCH 14, 2023

This guest blog in our series on leadership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education, NCEE , has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Abigail Woods, Pro Vice Chancellor / Head of College of Arts at the University of Lin coln. Things are not getting any easier for the arts and humanities in Higher Education.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 7, 2025

And in recent years, weve seen advances in technology and an increased emphasis on flexible learning environments reshape the higher ed classroom, resulting in both blended and hybrid learning models becoming more common. Depending on the model and modality, students can receive immediate feedback through computer graded activities.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This blog was kindly authored by Annamaria Carusi , Director at Interchange Research. The Arts and Humanities make a substantial a contribution to the UKs economy: a House of Lords report gives the figure of 126bn as the creative industries contribution to GVA in 2022 , which compares favourably to the contribution of STEM subjects.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. How much public money should be spent and on what kinds of arts and humanities PhDs?

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HEPI

MARCH 10, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Eve Alcock, Head of Public Affairs at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). Some are treating generative artificial intelligence models like essay mills, doing what they can to make clear to students that its use is prohibited.

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SRHE

MARCH 26, 2025

by Amir Shahsavari and Mohammad Eslahi This blog is based on research reported in Shahsavari, A, & Eslahi, M (2025) Dynamics of Imbalanced Higher Education Development: Analysing Factors and Policy Implications in Policy Reviews in Higher Education. This trend diminishes the human capital available to drive national innovation.

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SRHE

APRIL 2, 2025

by Lei Fang and Xue Zhou This blog is based on our recent publication: Zhou, X, Fang, L, & Rajaram, K (2025) Exploring the digital divide among students of diverse demographic backgrounds: a survey of UK undergraduates Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching , 8(1).

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Coursera blog

APRIL 23, 2025

Its more than technical skill; its a commitment to shaping AI that amplifies human potential, said Kevin Gifford, CU Boulders Faculty Director for the MS-AI/MS-CS programs on Coursera. The post CU Boulder announces AI masters degree on Coursera for under $16,000 — no application required appeared first on Coursera Blog.

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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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Today's Learner

APRIL 2, 2025

GenAI models, such as ChatGPT, assist educators by generating structured lesson plans, assessments, and multimedia content, reducing workload and enhancing efficiency. Responsible use, complemented by human oversight, is essential to maintaining educational integrity.

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MindMax

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This blog post was written based on a conversation between Lee Maxey and Paul LeBlanc , author of Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education. But this model doesn’t account for students who need more flexibility in their education due to work, family, or other commitments. Watch the full conversation here.

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HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Ian Pickup , Pro Vice Chancellor, Students, at The Open University, and builds on opening and closing remarks made at a recent HEPI round table event. Our open-access, distance learning model has applied the use of AI to support students for over 10 years.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

JUNE 13, 2023

Often these individuals, generalists, were most likely using AI to generate blog posts on some vaguely related theme. I have rejected hundreds of approaches in recent years from individuals (I assume they were humans) who suggested they could write blogs for me. This blog was created without LLM assistance. If it’s yours.

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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. This blog considers some of the themes that emerged from the discussion. But will there still be a place for a human touch?

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HEPI

MAY 8, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Mary Curnock Cook CBE , chair of the Jisc-Emerge HE Edtech Board, and Nic Newman , Founder and partner at Emerge Education. This echoes the positive approach to generative AI shared by Sir Tim O’Shea in a recent HEPI blog post, which you can read here.

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

With proliferation and advancements in foundational models, generative AI (GenAI) will continue to reshape jobs and industries at an unprecedented rate. Six of the top ten fastest-growing tech skills this year are cybersecurity-related, including computer security, threat management & modeling, and network planning and design.

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ACRLog

JANUARY 31, 2023

These were my instructions to the AI in order: “Can you write a different blog post, this time talking about the nuances of engaging with teaching faculty as an academic librarian? Can you tailor it to the style of the blog, ACRLog?” “Can With AI models like this, it’s also important for us as librarians to be mindful of copyright.

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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

For example, a brief internet search of UK GEES departments shows undergraduate trips heading to exotic locations such as the Amazonia region, Colombia (BSc Environmental Science), Bahamas (BSc Ocean Science and Marine Conservation) and Malawi (BA Human Geography).

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Laura Brammar , Deputy Head of the University of London Careers Service and Victoria Wade , Director of the University of London Career Service. 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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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Shadi Hijazi, Principal Consultant at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. The panic around AI replacing human effort has calmed as knowledge has grown. At the University of Manchester, significant investments have been made to better understand AI modelling, deep learning, ethics and security.

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HEPI

MARCH 17, 2024

This HEPI blog was authored by Lucy Haire, Director of Partnerships at HEPI. A recurring theme of the roundtable was the need for new models of assessment and learning in higher education. 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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Paul Fyfe, associate professor of English and the student’s instructor in the Data and the Human course, had asked students to “cheat” in this way and then reflect on how the experiment tested or changed their ideas about writing, AI or humanness. ’ And that is without human intervention, which would help.”

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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. As with so much else mid-2020, this model had to be abandoned.

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HEPI

APRIL 20, 2024

There are calls for a new model of university funding. This is a sensible midpoint between a full market model and getting back into public spending and taxation. It is the model we have had for over 20 years now and I see no better alternative. But the basic higher education model has not changed much for over 20 years.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The power of human stories is undeniable. By sharing their stories, the inequities they experience are humanized, which might lead to institutional change, such as policy shifts that can close equity gaps. Human Library: Every student has a story to share. Model Vulnerability: Teachers can model storytelling in class.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. This latest version largely outperforms the earlier model. There are noteworthy exceptions. Then came GPT-4.

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HEPI

MARCH 25, 2025

The book starts by reminding the reader how generative AI based on Large Language Models actually works. That is certainly my experience: there have been times when Ive started to bash out a piece not quite knowing if it will end up as a short blog based on one scatty thought or flower into a more polished full-length HEPI paper.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division August 9, 2023 Melissa Grant Associate Dean of Advisement, Office of the Provost, Pace University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. 2.79, and tier three contains 2.8–4.0.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

By now you’ve likely seen the hubbub over ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new chat bot trained on their large language model AI GPT 3.5. To begin, this introductory blog post will focus on an overview of large language model AIs and their potential impact on higher education. Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting I had a follow up post to last week's "Freaking Out About ChatGPT" ready to go, and then I saw some things that Marc Watkins of the University of Mississippi was saying on Twitter about the technology and its use and I immediately shelved my post so I could share this from Marc. - Let me calm your fears.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Understanding Recent AI Developments If you haven’t yet explored ChatGPT or another generative AI model, you may be wondering what the sudden hoopla ( obsession ?) For most people, ChatGPT was their introduction to large language model (LLM) AI, a technological advancement distinguished by several key features.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The power of human stories is undeniable. By sharing their stories, the inequities they experience are humanized, which might lead to institutional change, such as policy shifts that can close equity gaps. Human Library: Every student has a story to share. Model Vulnerability: Teachers can model storytelling in class.

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