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Sophomores converged on West Virginia University Institute of Technology college campuses for the 31st annual Health Sciences & Technology Academy camp, designed to prepare them for careers in tech and other fields.
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Artificial intelligence places whole term papers and complex mathematical solutions within the grasp of today’s students. Rather than simply banning it, educators must train themselves and provide what it cannot.
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Citing redundancies in the federal government, the Trump administration's new workforce development partnership shifts oversight of adult education and career training programs to the Department of Labor.
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Virtual reality has had a mixed reception in higher education, but few applications have caught on more than in nursing and health-care fields, where the technology is giving students practice with high-risk scenarios.
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Education is poised for a new chapter as generative AI is introduced in classrooms, and while that comes with a healthy amount of concern, it also offers new possibilities that we're only just beginning to uncover.
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A grant from the Steinman Foundation to the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design will support technology and classrooms for a new degree program preparing students to work in the live entertainment industry.
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A survey by Intelligent.com found that about 66 percent of educators are requiring assignments to be handwritten, typed in class without WiFi, or complemented by oral assessments so that students won't rely on ChatGPT.
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A five-year program coordinated by the University of Texas at San Antonio and UT Health San Antonio allows students to work toward a medical degree and a master's in artificial intelligence at the same time.
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University devised a string of code that could unlock ChatGPT and make it do things it was programmed not to. Now they're working on a "mind reader" tool to study how it makes decisions.
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Panelists at the recent AR/VR Policy Conference said AR/VR tools have a unique ability to broaden participation and engagement in STEM courses, provided the tools are created and adopted with accessibility in mind.
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Greg Brockman will have an onstage conversation with UND President Andrew Armacost, to be followed by a panel discussion with faculty from computer science, law, mathematics, entrepreneurship, writing and theater arts.
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The growing scope of a university CIO’s job necessitates a deepening relationship to an institution’s business interests, digital transformation, cybersecurity and development of internal talent.
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Among organizations that reported data leaks since 2019, 56 percent were private companies, and research found small organizations that employed less than 50 workers were more likely to lose client data.
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The University of Kansas is spearheading a technology program that offers a comprehensive array of digital skills training to facilitate the reintegration of incarcerated women into society.
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A Pennsylvania STEM advocacy group gave three grants to an area school district and two businesses, to build out a robotics lab at Millersville University and other local job-shadowing and industry-education programs.
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Though their services are illegal in some countries, companies that combine generative AI and human labor to write essays that are undetectable by anti-cheating software are soliciting clients on TikTok and Meta.
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To append what students learn about AI in school, developers should produce guidelines on how to use their products in a way that’s readily understood by people with varying degrees of “traditional” and digital literacy.
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The Alabama Community College System will make Canvas and other Instructure products available to all students in its 24 public community and technical colleges by fall 2024.
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Amid predictions that careers in science, technology, engineering and math will skyrocket in the next decade, students are increasingly participating in targeted programs to boost their skills.
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The Center for Digital Thriving, which opens next month at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, will conduct research with various universities, mental health professionals, educators and families.
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The pandemic sparked growth in free digital tools for students and teachers. As that trend continues, student privacy protections are gaining more focus — and, it seems, more enforcement.
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