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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

Faculty Focus

So, educators must continue to shift their thinking and go back to the basics to deliver their online course content in a way that creates a direct relationship with their students (Meyer, 2014). It was clear that while there were many differences in the presentation techniques, seminars were considered of great value to all.

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

Faculty Focus

So, educators must continue to shift their thinking and go back to the basics to deliver their online course content in a way that creates a direct relationship with their students (Meyer, 2014). It was clear that while there were many differences in the presentation techniques, seminars were considered of great value to all.

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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

Three years into the current Artificial Intelligence (AI) hype cycle, catalyzed by the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI continues to profoundly disrupt higher education. While we certainly share these concerns, we do remain relatively optimistic about one aspect of higher education: learning to write.

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Five ways my Humanities degree from a modern university has stood me in good stead

The PIE News

Attending seminars has prepared me for work meetings. My performance in seminars was best when I had prepared. I’m grateful to have been building this skill set since I started my undergraduate Humanities degree. Here are a few snippets of them! Do the reading, have an idea of how you want to contribute.

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Level Up Higher Education Assessments with ChatGPT

Faculty Focus

“ Technology can become the wings that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before – if we allow it (Arledge).” ” ChatGPT has given the field of higher education another opportunity to fly farther and faster. Will we allow it? Every time I use ChatGPT, I am amazed at its capability.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While we know that they bring value to the classroom, they’re very much absent in the classroom as educators, as teachers,” said Strachan, acting chair of the Department of Teacher Education & Leadership at Alabama A&M University. Strachan said she wants to figure out why fewer than 2% of all teachers in the U.S.