Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

In a white paper published by Claire Liu and colleagues, sponsored by the LEGO Foundation, the authors identify five key characteristics of playful learning which facilitate cognitive development: joy, meaning; active engagement; iteration; and social interaction. Though anecdotal, these results are hopeful to me.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

In a white paper published by Claire Liu and colleagues, sponsored by the LEGO Foundation, the authors identify five key characteristics of playful learning which facilitate cognitive development: joy, meaning; active engagement; iteration; and social interaction. Though anecdotal, these results are hopeful to me.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence group defines artificial intelligence as “a term coined by emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.’ Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Expand the communication conversation beyond English and the humanities . Encouraging better communication within all academic departments ensures students who focus their studies outside English and the humanities don’t miss out on crucial learning opportunities. . Don’t assume students are “digital natives”: Teach the tool .

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eLiterate

MAY 20, 2024

It’s hard-wired into humans. In a recent keynote on AI and durable skills, I argued that our tendency to teach and learn from each other through communications and transportation technologies formed the engine of human civilization’s advancement. Working at design time also puts a human in the loop.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

I am so grateful for the wonderful resources provided by EAB to support this effort, inclusive of the EAB white paper, “Breaking the Advising Stalemate—Building a Consistent Advising Experience to Address Students’ Needs”, 2022.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This opportunity for advancing equity in higher education allows online learning leaders to serve in strategic, cross-functional, university-wide initiatives, advocating for human-centered experiences regardless of modality, and execution of digital transformation through change innovation. Photo by cottonbro from Pexels.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

McCann (2019) has argued that ‘the UK has the greatest spatial inequality in Europe’, a view endorsed by IPPR North (Webb et al, 2022) and by the Levelling Up White Paper (2022 para 1.2.1). Investment in human capital has been mostly ignored. A tertiary system, regionally driven, would offer a valuable complementary effect.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. While the paper contains no groundbreaking new ideas, the gestalt of it is interesting and timely. We list the features of this hypothetical “New Educational Institution,” or NEI, below.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

If we believe that human promise is distributed equally, it’s what has been our lived experience. And when you talk to a business leader about their talent needs, they would say, first and foremost is the human skills, critical thinking, ability to work in teams. What are the barriers that we have to confront?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

7 November · Episode 180 A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This conversation–rooted in the findings of E&Y white paper: How are you balancing the books for a digital future? Now, you guys just brought out this new white paper. it sure does.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Mary Gallagher, professor of democracy, democratization and human rights at the University of Michigan and the director of its International Institute, said that U.S. ” The risks of detainment or punishment extend to American students studying in China through exchange and study abroad programs, as well as on the handful of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Kim wrote to Cochran in his capacity as chair of Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences executive committee. In response to a question about whether the new rule may impact equity negatively, Cocco pointed to a white paper the UC Academic Council drafted during the deliberation.

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Campus Sonar

MARCH 13, 2025

Actions that stop applications for income-driven student loan repayment plans , cut funding to public schools , eliminate Head Start and universal access to quality early childhood education , and limit knowledge of the broad spectrum of the human experience , will be catastrophic for higher education. Download the white paper.

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