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Small Language Models (SLMs): A Cost-Effective, Sustainable Option for Higher Education

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Small language models, known as SLMs, create intriguing possibilities for higher education leaders looking to take advantage of artificial intelligence and machine learning. SLMs are miniaturized versions of the large language models (LLMs) that spawned ChatGPT and other flavors of generative AI.

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EDUCAUSE 2024: Counseling Model Meets Students Where They Are: In the Esports Arena

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Esports has come a long way from its beginnings as a misunderstood, niche extracurricular activity bubbling up on college campuses in the early 21st century. Today, it’s not a question of whether a university should support esports on campus but a matter of how and to what extent.

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Insight Into Diversity Magazine Announces 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Today, Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education, announced the 83 recipients of its 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award. The 2024 recipients will be featured in the September 2024 issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine.

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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I didn’t have enough money at that time to become a subscriber, so I would either sit and read the magazine wherever I found it, or I would take it, read it from cover-to-cover, and then return it to its rightful owner. I grew up reading more magazines than newspapers. The latter plays itself out most powerfully on the front cover.

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Wharton Online and OpenAI launch a new course on Coursera, “AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching”

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Experts at Wharton created this course in collaboration with OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company that pioneered the revolutionary model. Seventy-seven percent of faculty at four-year institutions do not think their university is prepared for AI-related changes.

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3 Foundational Models Shaping Higher Ed IT

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

and focuses on the concept of foundation models. “I Susan Grajek, vice president of partnerships, communities and research at EDUCAUSE, presented the most recent list at the organization’s annual conference in Denver. The report features the input of higher education leaders from the U.S. and the U.K.

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UC Riverside's new policing model includes safety officers

Inside Higher Ed

have begun replicating the CAHOOTS model or something similar. How College Campuses Differ Experts are encouraged to see tiered response models expanding from cities and towns to campuses. In 2017, the team handled 17 percent of the city’s 911 calls, according to The Wall Street Journal. Other cities, including Oakland, Calif.,

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