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And that, in turn, means book report time, where I round up everything I’ve read on higher education for the past six months. (If Let’s start with institutional histories, of which I read two: A European University: The University of Helsinki 1640-2010 and A History of Temple University Japan: An Experiment in International Education.
The institute will focus on interdisciplinary research addressing global African diaspora issues, including studies on race, technology, climate change, and systemic disparities. I have had my eye on the Mecca my entire career, studying its history and witnessing what Howard means to the culture. Board of Education decision.
Lopez describes the impact of educators and professionals uncritically adopting technology on the students they serve and argues against the passive acceptance of AI in educational settings. Popular books The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna (2025).
Long story short: It’s not that big a leap between the technology we had before all the hype started and what we have now. The author here is Nicholas Carr, the author of The Shallows , among other great books about technology: Automation is most pernicious. Also, the writing it produces is really bad.
In a highly competitive global economy where technology is changing the very nature of work and the jobs we perform, we need the best educated workforce in the world," Sanders said. The topic is explored in the forthcoming book The Student Debt Crisis: America's Moral Urgency , written by Diverse editor, Dr. Jamal Watson.
Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. But there are limits to technological finesse. Gigerenzer sounds more tech-skeptical.
Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Consequently, renormalizing consumer expectations for end-user experiences.
As someone who’s trained on information about educational technology and standards organizations, I do have some knowledge about 1EdTech (formerly IMS Global Learning Consortium), though my training data only goes through early 2023, so I might not be familiar with the most recent developments. Let’s start at the beginning.
The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. To make history, it's helpful to know history. Recent books have also examined elite universities, state universities, and for-profit colleges and their predatory practices. Much of it has not.
I had to start my research somewhere, and Wikipedia was an easy, familiar way to learn the essentials about a topic before searching the library for books or articles. For libraries, this just means adapting to yet another wave of technological innovation. This struck me as out-of-touch. What does this mean?
Obasogie, a professor of law and bioethics, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Review of Books to launch a two-year, national conversation on the history of eugenics and the ways it still shapes science, medicine and technology. The post The legacy of eugenics appeared first on Berkeley News.
However, these advancements also raise challenges, such as addressing biases in AI systems , improving equitable access to technology, and integrating these tools effectively into established medical curricula. His human-centred approach proposes that technology could enhance, not replace, personal aspects of care.
For me, I find myself picturing main greens and brick buildings, autumnal weather (in my head, it’s always fall on campus), books, book bags, and everyone thinking as they bustle to class. When I read novels that are set in colleges and universities, I project all these memories and associations into the setting of the book.
“No matter how much technology or machines integrate into our culture, we’re all human beings functioning with those machines,” says Jessica Hooten Wilson , the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University’s Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Educational Technology Research and Development, 51 (4), 89102. Basic Books. Basic Books. Business Wire.
We have become familiar with how technology, media, commerce, and forms of human expression are deeply intertwined. Trettien’s book is a diverse collection of assemblages, including religious books that have been spliced together, reimagined works of poetry, and scrapbooks.
On the other hand, this attempt to “rewrite history” by feeding AI primary sources and prompts in order to build a new narrative about the California gold rush is not a healthy way to use NotebookLM: Right away, [Steven] Johnson recognized that she would make a great character.
We have been here before and can recognize the potential of technology tools in the hands of both teachers and students, which promotes more efficient learning, can save time, and focuses on what’s needed. Only affluent universities and technology companies had access to experiment with what AI could mean in the future.
degree in Astronomy, Geometry, Metaphysics, History, Greek, Hebrew and Natural Philosophy. The advances in technology, especially the growth of railways, meant that a formidable phalanx of non-resident M.A.s In 1830 an attempt was made to make a modern history course a requirement of the Oxford Master of Arts course. [13]
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Some may favor, for example, reading a print book outside surrounded by the Northeast Kingdom’s live audio of spring peepers. But its botched announcement, in which “all-digital” is a misnomer, failed to recognize students’ and professors’ emotional attachment to print books.
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The argument presented recently on this blog by representatives of Oxford University decrying the linkage of OA to the REF (which is now proposed to apply to long-form publications such as monographs and book chapters) touches on some valid questions about implementation, but we do not find their arguments convincing.
Later, he closes the book and puts it under his head and falls asleep. The normal thing in recent decades is to interpret the symptoms of acedia as a matter of depression—a tendency reinforced by Andrew Solomon’s widely hailed book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (2001), with its nod to Evagrius in the title.
A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work.
This collaboration even extends to incorporating resources like drone technology for real-time data gathering, enriching the teaching material. KCU faculty members joined the program that includes mentorship, case presentations, curriculum information, how to take a medical history, a suture clinic, and identity workshops.
Writing the book on strategic enrollment planning again Coming in April 2023 SEP is complex enough that you could fill a book with what it entails…which we did when we published the first edition of Strategic Enrollment Planning: A Dynamic Collaboration in 2012. Calculating enrollment impact.
Instead of snapping selfies, a student makes a BookSnap by taking a photo of a passage from a book, article, or other source and adding images and text to interpret and reflect on what they read (Figure 1). In history courses, students can take a picture of a timeline and identify turning points or key events.
The history of these closely related developments over the past 150 years is explained in our forthcoming book , Wealth, Cost and Price in American Higher Education: A Brief History (Johns Hopkins University Press). Even the dramatic tuition hikes during the 1970s were considered justified by stagflation.
In legislatures and courtrooms across the country, attempts to ban books, impose educational gag orders, limit what can be taught and by whom, and defund and discredit diversity, equity, and inclusion work in colleges and universities pose a monumental threat to the nation’s future.
Whenever I check out a library book that has been underlined or annotated, I think about the two anonymous students who aggressively marked up Widener Library’s copy of Rollo May’s Man’s Search for Himself : I hope these two students did in fact meet at some point, although they may have been separated by decades.
Eleven A&P instructors dedicated themselves to the writing process led by Book Sprints’ wholehearted facilitator, Karina Piersig. Their motto is “From zero to book in five days,” so now you know why the word sprint is in the name! Book Sprints wrote a post in their blog with additional details about our sprint process.
Instructors are frantically sharing examples of its outputs and wondering how to cope with the new technology. By resisting technologies like ChatGPT, we can potentially produce the kind of conflict that highlights the importance of what we are teaching and focuses the discussion on the kinds of resources we actually need to teach well.
The students involved were due to take up places at Pures College of Technology , in Scarborough, Ontario – the subject of a public-private partnership with Northern College. Ontario-based Northern College has revoked over 500 acceptance letters it previously sent to international students waiting to study at its partner campus.
Dr. Curtis Byrd, co-author of the 2021 book Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelor’s to the Professoriate. Pipeline and diversity programs in the database are assessed through what Byrd and Mason call the THRIVE Index : Type, History, Research, Inclusion, Identity, Voice and Expectation.
” The passage then goes on to say, “And the Word was made flesh …” These clauses are typically interpreted to mean that a divine plan, divine precepts and injunctions, and divine law preceded and directed human history. But these phrases also allude to words’ immense power.
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Discussions of pedagogy, instructional design, technology integration, and assessment are no longer confined to K-12 teachers. The book begins with a telling fact: That a study of 12,000 classrooms found that instructors took up 89 percent of class time speaking. Engagement Activities.
Author Rie Kudan received a prestigious Japanese literary award for her book, The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, and then disclosed that 5% of her book was written word-for-word by ChatGPT (Choi & Annio, 2024). A Google Docs version history where it appears as though text was copied and pasted in all at once? 2023; Perkins et al.,
Within my discipline, history, the concept of agency is invoked to challenge determinism and assumptions of inevitability and oppose the tendency to regard those who live on society’s margins as passive victims. Few aspects of our collective past have been more thoroughly shaped by popular mythology than the history of Native Americans.
A recent article identified some of those processes: climate change, deglobalization, demographic decline, and digital technologies, to which I’d add, challenges to liberal capitalism, liberal democracy, liberal internationalism, and even liberal education. Let’s begin with the history of American higher education.
Technology enables us to break the barriers of time and space to deliver quality instruction directly to students, when and where they prefer. I was weighed down by the centuries of history that had shaped my place in America, but I was also determined to make a difference. But let’s take a step back from this divisive debate.
For four years, she served as program coordinator for University of Colorado Boulder’s Colorado Diversity Initiative in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). One is the anti-DEI push being made on the field, including book bans at the K-12 level and the targeting of student resources in higher education. students in STEM.
For example, if you are a software developer working in the financial technology sector, your employer may not be open to funding an art history degree. They may, however, consider reimbursing you for master’s programs in cybersecurity, computer science, or related areas.
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