WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

At this year’s WCET Annual Meeting, Brandon Karcher, the Manager of Instructional Technology at Bucknell University, facilitated an unconference session titled “Higher Ed Technology: Innovative or Overwhelming.” What’s Working and What Isn’t?

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Leader of Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

John discusses the future of technology in education, specifically focusing on the impact of AI and the latest developments in Google’s educational tools. Guest Information: Since 2011, John has worked with schools around the world, providing practical, hands-on professional development and technology integration support.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Students Under More Surveillance Than Ever Katherine Knott Fri, 10/25/2024 - 03:00 AM A new book from a Purdue University professor outlines how universities’ embrace of some digital technology tools is reinforcing racial and economic inequities. Byline(s) Katherine Knott

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ACRLog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

With the advancement of technology, changes in libraries should also occur to ensure user needs are met. In Bangladesh especially in academic libraries there is a lot of possibility of applying Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Libraries have always been the centers of knowledge and community.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Now I am no scientist, as will become evident, but technology is a wonderful thing – from the advent of the television in the late 1920s, and the CT scan in the 1970s, to the camera phone in the 2000s. We knew, even when they had booked holiday, that they could not be on holiday. Then 2020 arrived. There was nowhere to go.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Student interest will continue to grow when it comes to virtual courses and remote learning options for live courses, the desire for creating richer academic and on-campus experiences, and new technology options. Yet, on many campuses, technology dollars are limited, with a wide variety of initiatives competing for that funding.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Founded in 2016 with headquarters in Pune, India, student-housing platform, AmberStudent ends the year with a $600 million in gross booking value with 40% net margin. Eyeing 100,000 bookings with a gross value of $1 billion by 2023, the company is looking to solidify their presence in the global real estate market. “We

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The Berkeley Blog

JUNE 21, 2024

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.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Register now Date & Time: Wednesday, October 16 at 12pm ET As technologies, space utilization, and institutional identities evolve at a rapid pace, higher ed libraries are undergoing a fundamental transformation to new modalities, redefining their roles as temples of knowledge and community hubs.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

“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.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I just finished reading Paul LeBlanc’s book Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education. To be clear, this post is neither a book review nor a comprehensive exploration of Competency-Based Education (CBE), although it contains some elements of both. How to read this book. What’s missing.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

copyright law when it digitized countless physical books from four major book publishers and offered them online. million books protected by copyrights, including 33,000 of the publishers’ titles—was swift, landing days after the March 20 hearing. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan wrote.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and preserve the World Wide Web has grown into a vast library of books, musical recordings and television shows, all digitized and available online, with a mission to provide “universal access to all knowledge.” In The Librarian’s Book of Lists ( ALA, 2010 ), George M.

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Campus Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

OverDrive, a provider of digital resources for schools and libraries, has announced an integration with library management provider Ex Libris that will allow academic institutions to discover the former's e-books and audiobooks within the Alma and Primo library services platforms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

She examines such technological approaches as virtual manipulatives and the virtual manipulative-based instructional sequences. Bouck is published in over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and has authored six books and over 30 book chapters.

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University Business

AUGUST 26, 2024

Luckily, a convergence of smart living and building technology is coming to market. In this Ed Talk, an industry expert will highlight the smart living technologies that are reshaping on- and off-campus student living.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 24, 2024

Learn how the use of contemporary university library management technologies is changing the environment, maximizing accessibility, and providing students with all the resources they need to succeed. In addition to searching and reserving books and other resources, members may examine problems, returns, fines, notifications, and reminders.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Name an area of importance to our future—training for the millions of new workers in technology and other fields, the proper role of artificial intelligence, advances in green energy, our response to climate change, the promise of genetic science. No one knows which jobs will be aided—or destroyed—by AI and other technological innovations.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The postdigital engages specifically with our current state of technological development, where digital technologies appear to be both ubiquitous, but also increasingly invisible, as they sink down into the mundane activities of everyday (educational) life.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

On March 28, 2023, Bryan’s new book, Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis (JHU Press), will come out. Bryan’s new book, I predict, will catalyze a postsecondary ecosystem–wide conversation about how colleges and universities are both preparing for and addressing climate change.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. McMillan Cottom’s second book, THICK: And Other Essays, was published in 2019. McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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 PIE News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I love that we’re solving real-world challenges with technological breakthroughs that often feel almost unreal to our customers. It’s a tough equation, but we’ve managed to deliver on both fronts by fully dedicating ourselves to building best-in-class mobile technology. Book or podcast recommendation for others in the sector?

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 27, 2024

Blending technology with teaching and learning in a classroom using digital tools such as laptops, mobile phones, and touchpads not only goes high-tech with digital learning platforms but also provides better communication and interaction between students, which increases their level of interest and curiosity to learn and ask questions.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

” Johnsen’s new book , Public University Systems , guides campus leaders in working with states to advance social and economic mobility, workforce development, affordability and technological innovation. ” James Johnsen, a university advisor and former president, says on “The University Business Podcast.”

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I’ve always loved what some of the big groups that have done well in the technology era – Microsoft, people like Bill Gates and Paul Allen and what they were able to do. Book or podcast recommendation for others in the sector? Spanish might be the number two language behind English but Chinese is spoken all around the world.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

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.

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ACRLog

JUNE 23, 2023

I really enjoy getting to see the thought processes of librarians past, with what books have made it this far and what was purchased when. Additionally, it’s fun to see when a patron clearly had a burst of energy in researching their specific topic when all or many books in that topic have the same return date.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The increasing advancement of cutting-edge technologies such as cloud, mobile, digital, and analytics have transformed the way libraries offer many services. It can be challenging to manage thousands of books, magazines, and stacks of journals, let alone the time and resources needed. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 20:07. Creates a smart library.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

This collaboration even extends to incorporating resources like drone technology for real-time data gathering, enriching the teaching material. Additionally, participants receive free books and online courses on MCAT test preparation. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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HEPI

JUNE 4, 2023

This book review of Paper Belt On Fire by Michael Gibson was authored by Lucy Haire , HEPI’s Director of Partnerships. When books and articles are published that are critical of higher education institutions, whether their curricula, culture, scale, structure or even just their mere existence, the temptation is to be quickly dismissive.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Worst conference food or beverage experience I think some five star hotels have really horrible food, and they should probably use an Irish technology called EcoBurner so the food doesn’t stick to the bottoms of those pans. Book or podcast recommendation for others in the sector? The PIE in Mumbai event… was very focused.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

“It seems like every year we are getting more technologically savvy, and I honestly love it.” Using an app called Ultimate Drill Book has enabled marching band members to more quickly and efficiently learn their parts for the on-field drills they perform during football games.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Dr. Berry is committed to using her research to support practitioners in teaching and leading with technology. Her recent book, “ Creating Inclusive Online Communities : Practices that Support and Engage Diverse Students ” focuses on how to better support college students in online learning environments.

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