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• How to make your academic work visible to AI - Darshan Vigneswaran, Times Higher Education
  Here is the brutal truth about AI discoverability: it is not replacing citation metrics. It is layering itself on top of them. So, work that is already cited, circulated and sitting inside recognisable debates is likely to become even more visible. The rich get richer, now with a chatbot assistant. If Google Scholar sometimes buries […]
• Lifelong learning in an AI-driven world: assistance, personalization and automation under scrutiny - Gerardo Alfredo Rodríguez, Andres Chiappe, Fabiola Sáez-Delgado, Frontiers in Education
  This scoping review examines the growing intersection between lifelong learning (LLL) and artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on whether the promises of assistance, personalization, and automation are aligned with the broader educational, social, and equity-oriented aims of LLL. The review addresses a central concern: although AI is increasingly promoted as a transformative resource for lifelong education, […]
• Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT‑5.6 Luna for free users - OpenAI
  Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re introducing updates to ChatGPT that improve everyday conversations while expanding access for Free users. For Plus and Pro users, we’re updating GPT‑5.6 Sol in Chat to be more reliable with facts and provide more focused answers. A new slider lets you […]
• Top 10 Online Course Apps and Websites for Learning New Skill - Sekolapedia
  The global education landscape has undergone a permanent shift. Up-skilling, continuous learning, and professional certifications are no longer optional extras—they are essential requirements for navigating an increasingly automated and competitive workforce. Online learning platforms have democratized education, allowing anyone with an internet connection to learn from top university professors, industry practitioners, and subject-matter experts.https://daftarsekolah.spmb.teknokrat.ac.id/2026/08/top-10-online-course-apps-and-websites-for-learning-new-skills/
• Self-directed learning ability and online student engagement among nursing students: the mediating role of information literacy and the moderating role of self-control - Haihong Zhang, et al; NIH National Library of Medicine
  Self-directed learning ability had a significant positive direct effect on online student engagement (β = 0.511, t = 17.586, p < 0.001). Information literacy mediated the relationship between self-directed learning ability and online student engagement, with an indirect effect of 0.346, accounting for 67.7% of the total effect. Self-control negatively moderated the direct effect of […]
• AI won’t kill the college degree, but it will change what it’s for - Colin Gabler, Atlanta Journal Constitution
  In the AI era, the value of college will not be measured by the output students generate, but whether they can form and defend the judgments they make behind it. That shift to artificial intelligence is already changing what counts as evidence of real learning in higher education, how we justify the valuable time and […]
• AI Detectors Are Out, New Assessments Are In - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  “It’s a difficult, delicate moment right now. And I’m not sure we have all the answers,” Kevin Yee, director of the Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning at the University of Central Florida, told Inside Higher Ed. “If faculty had an AI detector that was reliable, that’s what they would use. But many are reluctantly […]
• OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT - The Register
  The House of Altman announced a trio of new education-focused offerings on Tuesday: one for K-12 teachers, another for college educators, and a third for college students. The new plugins, the company explained, will help students and educators make more use of ChatGPT’s agentic capabilities for both studying and teaching. The new features are available […]
• Education Department Approves First Workforce Pell Program - Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed
  Students in an EMT program at Iowa Central Community College will be the first to take advantage of Workforce Pell. The U.S. Department of Education approved its first Workforce Pell program, for training emergency medical technicians at Iowa Central Community College, according to a Tuesday announcement. Students can now access Pell Grants, federal financial aid […]
• Public Colleges Anchor State Workforce Pipelines - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  The type of college a person graduates from is one of the strongest predictors of whether they’ll remain in the state to work after graduation, new data shows. According to a report the Strada Institute for the Future of Work published Thursday, 62 percent of workers between the ages of 20 and 65 who graduated […]
• Fitch: New visa limits could hurt international enrollment and revenue - Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
  The Trump administration’s new rule capping international student visa stays at four years could hurt revenue and decrease enrollment at colleges, particularly those that heavily rely on foreign students, according to a Tuesday analysis from Fitch Ratings. Financial pressure will be greatest on institutions with weaker student demand, limited financial flexibility, and a high reliance […]
• Differential engagement with generative artificial intelligence in higher education: Gender, motivation, and achievement trajectories - uan-Hsuan Lee & Jiun-Yu Wu, International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
  Engagement frequency was shaped by learner differences: female students, those with stronger autonomous motivation, lower prior knowledge, and higher course performance interacted more frequently, while higher-performing students were less likely to abstain from use. Importantly, engagement was not merely a matter of frequency but of inquiry quality and diversity. Growing Achievers (students who began with […]
• Why reinvention is the new responsibility of public higher education - Anthony Graham, Pine Bluss Commercial
  Leadership scholars have long observed that every system is perfectly designed to produce the results it produces. This simple observation carries profound implications for higher education. If our universities are producing outcomes that no longer meet the needs of today’s students, employers, and communities, the answer cannot be to simply work harder within the same […]
• A $40,000-Per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma - Maya Henry, Good Men Project
  An AI-powered, billionaire-backed chain of private schools promises to educate students with two hours of virtual learning a day and entrepreneurship workshops. There are no teachers, and tuition is nearly double the most expensive private school in the state. This is Alpha School and, come August, it’s touching down in Oklahoma. Here’s how it works, […]
• AI use mirrors student schedules in study of 77,000 online learners - André Adler, Phys.org
  This makes it the world's largest empirical analysis to date of the actual use of a dedicated AI learning assistant in a higher education context. Syntea is currently available to more than 80,000 online students at IU International University of Applied Sciences, as well as around 5,000 learners at IU Academy. Among other findings, the analysis […]
• Montana Tech Names First Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer in Montana University System - Amanda Badovinac, Montana Tech
  Recognizing the transformative impact of emerging technologies on higher education and industry, Montana Technological University has appointed Professor Chad Okrusch, Ph.D. to serve as the university’s first chief artificial intelligence officer. The position is the first of its kind in the Montana University System (MUS). As chief artificial intelligence officer, Okrusch will lead Montana Tech’s […]
• Public health courses provide opportunities for international collaboration and learning - Mellissa Withers, Keck School of Medicine, USC
  Both of these courses are delivered online to facilitate international collaboration and participation across partner institutions, and are open to USC students in any modality or concentration. Students from outside of the MPH program are also welcome to enroll.https://keck.usc.edu/news/public-health-courses-provide-opportunities-for-international-collaboration-and-learning/
• Illinois Institute of Technology cuts 160 faculty and staff just before fall semester - Lisa Kurian Philip, Chicago Sun time
  The Illinois Institute of Technology has laid off approximately 160 faculty and staff just before the start of the fall semester, a university spokesperson said in a written statement. According to an email shared with WBEZ, the university’s president said Illinois Tech is facing research funding cuts and “severe restrictions on international students.” “The university […]
• How to set up an effective internship program - Roopa Venkatesh, et al; Journal of Accountancy
  Learn what practitioners can do to attract stronger internship candidates and build a robust on-ramp for long-term accounting careers. Internships are important on-ramps into the accounting profession, but they’re not working equally well for everyone. Students are eager for experience. Many firms are eager for talent. And yet, a surprising number of qualified accounting students […]
• Why outcomes now dominate the college search - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  Students are now turning down Ivy Leagues for institutions that better communicate ROI and affordability, says one leader in the college consulting space. Economic uncertainty, artificial intelligence and affordability have flipped recruitment on its head as today’s learners are far more interested in how a college will help them thrive after graduation than previous generations. […]