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Why It’s Imperative that Africa Study Abroad Opportunities Thrive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dynamic innovation and leadership is happening all over the continent, in public health, climate and sustainability, history and culture and urban development; there’s much for American students to learn. Through a service-learning summer program in Ghana, I gained knowledge about West African history, culture and sustainable design.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

The 1990s introduced machine learning, enabling AI to learn from dataemail spam filters improved iteratively, marking a shift from static programming (Mitchell, 1997).

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(Re)imagining AI for Educators: How to Improve Learner-Centered Classrooms with Futuristic Possibilities 

Faculty Focus

From designing custom art images to creating “Soundful: AI Music Generator” songs and videos to interacting with historical figures through “Hello History” fun chats, AI has the capability to boost education and deep learning. Students want to explore subject areas and find meaning.

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How to Combat the High Schoolization of the University

Inside Higher Ed

If a moral education strikes most faculty as inappropriate at liberal, secular institutions, are there pedagogies that we might use but don’t, to test student knowledge at a deep level or prompt their intellectual, social and moral growth? Deep learning is inherently a difficult and demanding process.

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The F Word

Inside Higher Ed

Faculty members must recognize that it’s not enough to create opportunities for students to learn – though we must certainly do that. Certainly, we can’t make students invest the time, attention, and focus that deep learning requires. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Your prior learning on Coursera may help you complete your bachelor’s degree at UNT

Coursera blog

Seamlessly transfer up to 84 credit hours —including prior learning on Coursera— to complete your degree faster The B.A.A.S. program at UNT accepts traditional common core credits earned from community colleges (American history, political science, English, etc.) or other universities. But what makes the B.A.A.S The UNT B.A.A.S

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Is AI the New Homework Machine? Understanding AI and Its Impact on Higher EducationIs AI the New Homework Machine?

WCET Frontiers

Neural networks and deep learning: Neural networks are, simply put, computer networks that are built in such a way as to mimic the human brain with each node leading to other nodes, much as the brain is a complex collection of networked neurons. Today’s students have to take ownership over every step of the learning experience.

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