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• Would You Trust AI for Ethical Advice? - Christian Terwiesch, Gideon Nave, Lennart Meincke; Knowledge at Wharton
  No disrespect to philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, but Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch no longer reads his wildly popular advice column, “The Ethicist.” Terwiesch used to love the long-running column in The New York Times until 2023, when he and two Wharton colleagues conducted an experiment to see whether people could tell the difference between Appiah’s […]
• A look at trends in college consolidation since 2016 - Higher Ed Dive Team
  We’re tracking major closings, mergers, acquisitions and other consolidation among public and private nonprofit institutions from 2016 to the present. The last few years have been tumultuous for many U.S. colleges. Pressure to lower tuition, stagnating state funding and a shrinking pool of high school graduates has strained many institutions’ bottom lines and questioned their […]
• Pace of college closings picks up, with more projected - Jon Marcus, Hechinger Report
  Pssst — wanna buy a college campus? There’s a sudden market in abandoned campuses, an outgrowth of the accelerating rate of colleges closing in the face of falling enrollment, rising debt and other problems. More than 440 of the nation’s private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities are now at risk, based on enrollment trends, debt […]
• What Canvas learned from a massive cyberattack - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  Artificial intelligence has made it easier for cyberattackers to breach college and university systems and steal valuable student and staff data. Canvas, higher education’s most high-profile victim this year, is remodeling its security to prepare for the inevitable next attempt. What experts have learned is that colleges may be sorely underprepared for the next evolution […]
• Texas State University, Central Texas College announce expanded co-enrollment partnership serving Central Texas - Jayme Blaschke, Texas State University
  Texas State University (TXST) and Central Texas College (CTC) have announced a joint expansion of the TXST Local co-enrollment program, creating new opportunities for students in Central Texas to earn both associate and bachelor’s degrees through a coordinated, affordable pathway while allowing students to remain closer to home.  TXST Local is Texas State’s co-enrollment program, […]
• The Next Competitive Advantage in Online Education - Adam Fein, 2U
  Adam Fein, Vice President of Academic Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at 2U, reflects on how online education has become an integral part of institution-wide strategies and why alignment and partnership are increasingly important to its success. Online education has always required many parts of a university to work together: admissions, financial aid, academics, advising, career […]
• Focus on the Quantum Future - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  While artificial general intelligence and artificial super intelligence will mark significant improvements in AI algorithms, there is not a single clear definition of either of these terms. Therefore, some experts believe that we have already achieved AGI and that ASI is just a year or two away; others say it will be the middle of […]
• Loss of International Students Could Cost Economy $3.4B - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  The United States may have as many as 112,000 fewer international students enrolled in higher education this coming academic year, according to new projections that NAFSA: Association of International Educators and JB International published Tuesday. Based on data from the Institute of International Education, the analysis estimates that about 1,057,000 international students will be enrolled […]
• Focus on the Quantum Future - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  While artificial general intelligence and artificial super intelligence will mark significant improvements in AI algorithms, there is not a single clear definition of either of these terms. Therefore, some experts believe that we have already achieved AGI and that ASI is just a year or two away; others say it will be the middle of […]
• Universities would prefer not to. - Hollis Robbins, Hollis Robbins Annectdotal
  Four years after ChatGPT caught so many by surprise, the primary role of higher education seems to be slowing down the public’s transition to the AI era. For many faculty, this is a win. For those focused on the future, this is the biggest institutional failure since the Victorian Post Office, with its monopoly on […]
• How to Build an Education Platform That Supports People Through Different Stages of Life - Danny Wesley, Hackernoon
  Despite the age difference, people are solving a similar problem: they are trying to move to the next level of what they are capable of. For a school student, that might mean getting into university. For a university student, access to the tools for a first set of professional skills. For an adult, a career […]
• AI-Enabled Ghost Student Fraud: How IT Leaders Are Fighting Back - Adam Stone, EdTech
  Generative artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in ghost student fraud. Learn how layered identity verification, behavioral analytics and AI-driven pattern detection help higher ed IT leaders stop fraud rings before disbursement. First, there was the zombie college scam. Now it’s “ghost students,” bad actors leveraging artificial intelligence to create fake identities and enroll imaginary […]
• How instructional design shapes higher-order thinking among higher education students in generative artificial intelligence-supported teaching contexts - Yujia Chen & Jinling Wang, Nature
  Against the backdrop of the widespread integration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) into higher education, previous research has yielded divergent findings regarding its relationship with students’ higher-order thinking (HOT). Moving beyond outcome-oriented discussions of technology use itself, this study examines the association between HOT performance, instructional design elements, and cognitive processes in GAI-supported teaching contexts […]
• How AI Actually works - Cris Tolomia, Quartz
  This piece is not about whether AI is good or bad. It's about what it actually is: how it learns, how it generates output, where its failures come from, and why the problems that afflict these systems are structural rather than incidental. Understanding these things won't make you a machine learning engineer. It will make […]
• Building expertise in the age of AI: Who trains the next generation? - Bryan Hancock, McKinsey
  For decades, organizations have relied on early-career talent to do the routine, lower-risk work that supports the business and to serve as a training ground for future leaders. Think of Peggy Olson’s trajectory on Mad Men, from novice assistant to Don Draper’s protégé to confident copy chief at an advertising agency—a climb that began because […]
• 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 […]