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• The agentic organization: Contours of the next paradigm for the AI era - Alexander Sukharevsky, et al; McKinsey
  AI is bringing the largest organizational paradigm shift since the industrial and digital revolutions (see sidebar, “The evolution of operating models”). This new paradigm unites humans and AI agents—both virtual and physical—to work side by side at scale at near-zero marginal cost. We call it the agentic organization. McKinsey’s experience working with early adopters indicates […]
• ChatGPT Study Mode - Explained By A Learning Coach - Justin Sung, YouTube
  The main issue is that the interaction remains very user-led, as Study Mode struggles to dynamically adjust its teaching to a beginner's exact level or pinpoint the root cause of confusion without specific, targeted input from the student [10:10]. The coach found that a passive learner could be stuck in confusion for 30 minutes, whereas […]
• IDEAS EdTech Digest Special Edition Spotlights Online Learning Best Practices - UMass Amherst
  The UMass Amherst Instructional Design, Engagement, and Support (IDEAS) Group has released a Fall 2025 special edition of its publication, EdTech IDEAS Digest, focusing on online learning best practices for faculty, instructional designers and higher education leaders. The special edition covers a range of topics, including student preferences for classroom technology, using AI to develop […]
• AI magnifies your teams strengths - and weaknesses, Google report finds - David Gewirtz, ZDnet
  According to survey respondents, somewhere between 90 and 95% rely on software development for work. The report mentions 95% in the intro and 90% later in a detail section, but regardless of which number you choose, nearly all coders are now using AI. According to the report, this is a 14% jump from last year. Nearly […]
• The future of work is agentic - McKinsey
  Think about your org chart. Now imagine it features both your current colleagues—humans, if you’re like most of us—and AI agents. That’s not science fiction; it’s happening—and it’s happening relatively quickly, according to McKinsey Senior Partner Jorge Amar. In this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, Jorge joins McKinsey talent leaders Brooke Weddle and Bryan Hancock […]
• Yale students recount Ukraine summer internships organized by nonprofit - Orion Kim & Kristina Petrova, Yale Daily News
  Tetiana Kotelnykova GRD ’25 lived through two major conflicts. The first came when she was displaced in 2014 by Russia’s war in Donetsk, Ukraine, and the second during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine while she was completing her studies in Kyiv. Over the summer, the program ImpactUA — organized by Kotelnykova’s group, Brave Generation — […]
• Factors influencing undergraduates’ ethical use of ChatGPT: a reasoned goal pursuit approach - Radu BogdanToma & Iraya Yánez-Pérez, Interactive Learning Environments
  The widespread use of large language models, such as ChatGPT, has changed the learning behaviours of undergraduate students, raising issues of academic dishonesty. This study investigates the factors that influence the ethical use of ChatGPT among undergraduates using the recently proposed Theory of Reasoned Goal Pursuit. Through a qualitative elicitation procedure, 26 salient beliefs were […]
• Microcredentials Chip Away at Semiconductor Workforce Gap To scale up the workforce, start small with short courses - Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum
  In 2024, McKinsey & Co. estimated a talent gap between 59,000 and 146,000 engineers and technicians before the end of the decade. As the United States invests in reshoring chip manufacturing, the industry faces a dilemma: How can the semiconductor workforce scale to meet the coming demand? To fill the gap, some universities—including UC Santa […]
• Linking digital competence, self-efficacy, and digital stress to perceived interactivity in AI-supported learning contexts - Jiaxin Ren, Juncheng Guo & Huanxi Li, Nature
  As artificial intelligence technologies become more integrated into educational contexts, understanding how learners perceive and interact with such systems remains an important area of inquiry. This study investigated associations between digital competence and learners’ perceived interactivity with artificial intelligence, considering the potential mediating roles of information retrieval self-efficacy and self-efficacy for human–robot interaction, as well […]
• Sans Safeguards, AI in Education Risks Deepening Inequality - Government Technology
  A new UNESCO report cautions that artificial intelligence has the potential to threaten students’ access to quality education. The organization calls for a focus on people, to ensure digital tools enhance education. While AI and other digital technology hold enormous potential to improve education, a new UNESCO report warns they also risk eroding human rights and worsening inequality […]
• What's your college's AI policy? Find out here. - Chase DiBenedetto, Mashable
   Part of ChatGPT for Education, OpenAI has announced educational partnerships with Harvard Business School, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton College, Duke, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), UC San Diego, UC Davis, Indiana University, Arizona State University, Mount Sinai's Ichan School of Medicine, and the entire California State University (CSU) System — OpenAI's collaboration with CSU […]
• From Veterans to Caregivers—The Importance of Expanding Remote Education for Women Worldwide - Brittany R. Collins, Ms. Magazine
  Taking the above into consideration, we need to continue normalizing and destigmatizing nontraditional remote learning opportunities as valid, accessible pathways toward women’s realization of their right to an education. This means expanding the number of hybrid and remote learning options available through well-established colleges and universities. It means rethinking the types of technological adaptations deemed […]
• The relationship between online learning self-efficacy and learning engagement: the mediating role of achievement motivation and flow among registered nurses - Tong Zhou, Frontiers Psychology
  Online learning self-efficacy influences RN learning engagement both directly and indirectly, with mediation effects exerted through achievement motivation and flow. These findings highlight the importance of fostering self-efficacy and motivational processes to enhance engagement in online nursing education.https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1629174/full
• Most adults say higher education is important but want colleges to stay out of politics - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  The poll, conducted by Vanderbilt University, comes as institutions are increasingly under fire from the Trump administration. Nearly 4 in 5 surveyed Americans, 78%, said a college education is somewhat or very important to a young person’s success, according to a new poll from researchers at Vanderbilt University. Despite increasing polarization around higher ed, a […]
• What your students are thinking about artificial intelligence - Florencia Moore & Agostina Arbia, Time Higher Eduction
  Students have been quick to adopt and integrate GenAI into their study practices, using it as a virtual assistant to enhance and enrich their learning. At the same time, they sometimes rely on it as a substitute for their own ideas and thinking, since GenAI can complete academic tasks in a matter of seconds. While […]
• Syracuse University adopts Claude for Education - EdScoop
  yracuse University, the private research institution in New York, this week announced that it’s formed a partnership with Anthropic, the company behind the popular Claude chatbot, to provide students, faculty and staff with a version of the software designed for use in higher education. “Expanding access to Claude for all members of our community is […]
• Preparing students for a world shaped by artificial intelligence - the Guardian
  Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney are right to warn that uncritical reliance on artificial intelligence risks bypassing deep learning (Letters, 16 September). But that does not mean large language models have no place in higher education. Used thoughtfully, they can enhance teaching and learning. Graduates will enter a workforce where AI is ubiquitous. To […]
• ChatGPT offers a personalised daily briefing - Rachel Metz, AFR
  OpenAI is rolling out a new ChatGPT feature that sends users a set of personalised news, research and other updates each day based on their prior conversations with the chatbot, an early attempt at making its flagship product more proactive. With ChatGPT Pulse, available to select paid customers on Thursday (Friday AEST), users will receive […]
• Colleges are giving students ChatGPT. Is it safe? - Rebecca Ruiz and Chase DiBenedetto - Mashable
  This fall, hundreds of thousands of students will get free access to ChatGPT, thanks to a licensing agreement between their school or university and the chatbot's maker, OpenAI. When the partnerships in higher education became public earlier this year, they were lauded as a way for universities to help their students familiarize themselves with an […]
• We’re introducing GDPval, a new evaluation that measures model performance on economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations. - OpenAI
  We found that today’s best frontier models are already approaching the quality of work produced by industry experts. To test this, we ran blind evaluations where industry experts compared deliverables from several leading models—GPT‑4o, o4-mini, OpenAI o3, GPT‑5, Claude Opus 4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 4—against human-produced work. Across 220 tasks in the GDPval […]