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The Evolution of the Humanities

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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How will technology change education in the future?

HEPI

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. But now in 2023, Italy felt the need (briefly) to ban ChatGPT (due to data protection fears) and some universities, including here in the UK, have tried to bar their students from using it.

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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AI ‘not yet ready’ for language testing without humans

The PIE News

English language testing providers are using Artificial Intelligence to enhance the experience of students, but maintaining a human touch within exams is still important as technology develops. But other providers also maintain a reliance on humans within testing.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. These values run contrary to systemic oppression.

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Riding the wave of technological change to enable transformative learning for all

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Ian Pickup , Pro Vice Chancellor, Students, at The Open University, and builds on opening and closing remarks made at a recent HEPI round table event. Thinking through the implications of the advance of Generative AI-powered technologies for universities has been a cause for personal reflection.

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Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues 

Faculty Focus

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. Independent of software applications, there may be other signals that distinguish independent student work from that of AI.