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5 Strategies to Create Inclusive Learning Environments for International Students

Faculty Focus

One of the major challenges international students faces is adapting to a new educational system and culture while striving to integrate seamlessly into their new environment. These experiences highlight the importance of creating environments where international students feel safe, supported, and included.

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AI isn’t a tool, it’s an environment

Wonkhe

There’s a fear that students will use artificial intelligence as “magic button” that cuts out the need for deeper thinking. For Josh Thorpe, another world is possible

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Virtual Reality Technology Enhances Modern Learning Environments

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

This is because youre in a virtual chemistry lab, wearing a virtual reality headset and experimenting in a digital environment that doesnt carry the risks of an actual chemistry lab. But despite this error, no one gets hurt and theres absolutely no threat to others. This is the future of teaching and learning, one higher

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Spatial Computing Tech Gives Students Real-World Experience in Virtual Environments

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In an instant, biology students are transported to Antarctica, where they collect plankton samples. An endless supply of patients with mysterious diseases materializes in front of medical students’ eyes. And in a rhetoric class, a restless audience prepares to mercilessly heckle students who drone on in a monotone as they practice their speeches.

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Technology Initiatives Support Student Mental Health in a Modern Higher Ed Environment

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Mental health has become an increased focus recently for both students and the schools they attend. According to a 2024 U.S. News-Generation Lab report, 70% of students have experienced mental health challenges since starting college.

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What a tough private equity environment could mean for university endowments

Higher Ed Dive

Amid high interest rates and slowed dealmaking, a major source of investments for elite universities could become a liquidity headache, a new analysis finds

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Institutional silos are making it harder to build learning environments for student success

Wonkhe

Everyone wants their learning environment to be flexible, engaging, and supportive. But, as Debbie McVitty finds, getting there means breaking down the silos that hold institutions back