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After transitioning from Fairfield University’s leader of enterprise systems to director of IT strategy and enterprise architecture for the state of Connecticut, Armstrong will return to higher-ed leadership in January. -
To prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to write and do homework for them, many professors are returning to pre-technology assessments and having students finish essays in class.
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A new online course aims to train instructors on how to incorporate a growth mindset into existing teaching practices, as it can positively impact student experience and outcomes.
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Amid the pace and constancy of technological change, it’s easy to overlook how transformational the digital era has been — and how the ability to pause, rewind, record, search and share has revolutionized education.
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As part of a developing innovation district intended to train future generations for technology jobs, ASU is investing heavily in educational and research facilities that will be open to tech industry partners.
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In 2024, California State University, Sacramento will open The National Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Education to train current and future teachers to use the technology ethically and effectively.
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WVU is putting a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education toward a facility where students can practice virtually testing cybersecurity concepts and get hands-on experience with recent threats.
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Southern Methodist University student Trevor Gicheru created an app, Nurovant AI, to generate quizzes, flashcards, summaries and other materials based on audio recordings of his professor's lectures.
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After a semester of allowing his students to use ChatGPT for coursework, political-science professor David Schultz found his students were keenly aware that the tool wasn't generating original thought.
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An informal poll of various IT professionals in education revealed that IT labor shortages and the potential loss of institutional knowledge are keeping CIOs up at night more than artificial intelligence.
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have been using cloud tools and remote-controlled microscopes to give more students access to cortical organoids used in biotechnology research and education.
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The University of Pittsburgh's new master's degree in data science, delivered fully online through Coursera, will teach core computational concepts, data management, programming for analysis and other subjects.
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The State University of New York at Albany will use $1 billion from the state and $9 billion from private spending and investment to build a High NA Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Public-Private Center.
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Community colleges in New Mexico will be host sites for equipment that will connect all public schools to the Statewide Educational Network, extending access to high-speed Internet to smaller districts.
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The digital learning platform Solvably’s new AI Centers of Excellence challenge users to apply AI to academic or real-world problems. The modules can be tailored for K-12, higher education or professional development.
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Research teams at the University of Texas at San Antonio are trying to develop AI models that mirror how the human brain processes information at a fraction of the energy that current AI systems use.
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In order to become “ultra-intelligent institutions” that harness data to improve all aspects of their operations, colleges and universities must make their disparate data sets accessible, searchable and analyzable by AI.
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A 30,000-square-foot, single-story facility on the southeast corner of Clark State's Springfield campus will accommodate academic programs for middle and high school students through the Global Impact STEM Academy.
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A recent study of Generation Z’s attitudes toward STEM found that only 29 percent of them cite STEM jobs as their first career choices, despite 75 percent expressing interest in the subjects academically.
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The new Extended Reality Technology Center will bring together researchers from computer science, engineering, IT, fine arts and humanities departments to create new technology and curricula.
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Instead of only training AI speech-recognition tools on near-perfect diction, researchers at the University of Illinois want to train them to understand people with motor disabilities like Parkinson's disease.
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