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• Are colleges really facing an enrollment cliff? - Dick Startz, Brookings
  A large number of colleges have very low student enrollment and few or no endowment resources, and these are the institutions most at risk now and in the coming years. Additionally, college enrollments in some states are likely to drop drastically over the next few years, putting some colleges in those states at risk. The […]
• Tracking college closures - Marina Villeneuve and Olivia Sanchez, Hechinger Report
  College enrollment has been declining for more than a decade, and that means that many institutions are struggling to pay their bills. A growing number of them are making the difficult decision to close. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. In the first nine months of 2024, 28 degree-granting institutions closed, compared with 15 in […]
• Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio - Charles Lamanna, Microsoft
  Copilot Studio provides an all-in-one platform for building agents, with managed software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure, AI models, a low-code design interface, and thousands of prebuilt connectors. It integrates personal, business, and analytical data, and enables publishing to Copilot, web, and your apps. These new capabilities allow agents to act independently, initiate events, and […]
• Black women on the academic tightrope: four scholars weigh in - Malika Jeffries-EL, Monica R. McLemore, Ruby Zelzer & Tiara Moore, Nature
  Black women have long flagged an insidious issue they have to contend with: misogynoir, a combination of sexism and anti-Black racism that often manifests as a lack of respect and impedes their prospects. The data are clear, the problem is pervasive, including in academia. Here, four scholars discuss their anti-racism work. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03342-0
• Career Prep Tip: Teaching Entrepreneurship Students to Self-Teach With AI - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
  Increasingly, employers are indicating that there’s a need for students to be trained in generative artificial intelligence tools as more businesses integrate the tech’s capabilities into the workplace. Some instructors have implemented AI into their classes to demonstrate prompt engineering and showcase AI’s research and writing abilities. Entrepreneurship professor Mark Lacker at Miami University in […]
• Keeping artificial intelligence real - Navrina Singh, McKinsey Digital
  Generative AI represents a sociotechnical revolution with massive implications for every aspect of our lives. Keeping humans in the loop is critical for its responsible development. Companies are entering a new phase with generative AI (gen AI), as they realistically ponder how to deploy the potent technology responsibly and profitably. The answer, says Navrina Singh, […]
• Harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence in New Jersey: The time is now - written by ChatGPT, edited by Andrew Zwicker, NJ.com
  By investing in AI education for all students, from K-12 through higher education, the state will cultivate a workforce prepared to engage with and build on these new technologies. By fostering AI research and development in our four-year universities, New Jersey will create a talent pipeline with the skills and creativity to invent the next […]
• St. Louis University To Freeze 130 Positions And Lay Off 23 Staff - Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes
  Faced with mounting budget challenges, St. Louis University announced on Friday that it will terminate 23 staff positions and freeze another 130 current vacancies.The news came in a letter from St. Louis University President Fred Pestello that was reported by the student newspaper, the University News. Of the 130 unfilled lines that will be frozen, […]
• Report: Employers Still Don’t Understand Or Trust Education Badges - Derek Newton, Forbes
  Because there were so many, because there was no regulation or oversight to assure quality or competency, because there was no standardization or segmentation of badges, people had no idea what they meant. One badge could represent watching a four-minute video, while another could represent a hundred hours of expert-led, one-on-one instruction and fieldwork. An […]
• Where the 2024 presidential candidates stand on higher education issues - Natalie Schwartz, et al; Higher Ed Dive
  As the 2024 presidential election has drawn closer, it’s become more clear how the candidates may approach key higher education issues, including accreditation, international enrollment and student protests.  Below, we’re looking at where Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stand based on their statements, campaign websites, past actions and their parties’ platformhttps://www.highereddive.com/news/where-the-2024-president-candidates-stand-on-higher-education-issues/729612/
• Boston Dynamics, Toyota Research Institute Team on Humanoid Robots - Liz Hughes, AI Business
  Boston Dynamics said the project will combine the physical capabilities of its electric Atlas robot, along with its ability to be programmed and teleoperated to allow researchers to deploy it across a range of tasks to collect performance data that will be used to support the training of advanced LBMS to show that “large, pre-trained […]
• NotebookLM - Google Blog
  NotebookLM is a tool for understanding, built with Gemini 1.5. When you upload your sources, it instantly becomes an expert, grounding its responses in your material and giving you powerful ways to transform information. And since it’s your notebook, your personal data is never used to train NotebookLM. Millions of people are already using NotebookLM to understand and […]
• The Rise Of The Micro-Credentials Movement: Validating Skills Beyond Traditional Degrees - Aditya Malik, Forbes
  Traditionally, the conventional approach to education involves a lot of time and money investment through a comprehensive curriculum. Institutional prestige steps in as a bias; there’s a lot of theory involved, much more than practical experiments, and the earned credential becomes a gatekeeper toward employment, irrespective of whether there’s a skills mismatch with the role […]
• Challenges and opportunities of micro-credentials as a new form of certification in health science education—a discussion paper - Kinga Zdunek, BMCMedEdUC
  Micro-credentials are an element of the European Skills Agenda 2020. This five-year plan aims to develop improved applied and broader work skills in response to system demands from employers, industry and communities. Within the labour market, employees increasingly want to obtain new skills-based qualifications in a relatively short period of time. Micro-credentials, as a form […]
• Using Collaborative Learning to Elevate Students' Educational Experiences - Faculty Focus
  Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students. Bruffee (1999), the most prominent name in collaborate learning, describes collaborative learning as “creates conditions in which students can negotiate the […]
• Artificial intelligence in higher education: exploring faculty use, self-efficacy, distinct profiles, and professional development needs - Dana-Kristin Mah, Nele Groß, Springer Professional
  There are several benefits for faculty members who apply artificial intelligence (AI) to teaching practices in higher education. AI-based tools for teaching and learning, such as large language models (LLMs) and learning analytics, encompass improved planning and resource allocation, greater insight into student learning, and data-driven feedback on instructional design, which might lead to a […]
• Embodied AI - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  We may be just months away from an influx of embodied AI robots (EAI). Those are, in many cases, humanoid bots powered by autonomous AI. Shaoshan Liu and Shuang Wu write in the Communications of the ACM, “Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI) integrates artificial intelligence into physical entities like robots, endowing them with the ability to […]
• U.S. Will Withdraw Controversial Outsourcing Guidance - Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed
  The guidance, first issued in February 2023, was aimed at regulating online program managers—but higher ed groups warned of unintended consequences. The Education Department is officially planning to rescind its controversial guidance on outside contractors—which never actually took effect—within the next four weeks. This latest step, announced in a court filing Monday, is largely a […]
• Not using AI is “disservice” to students - Polly Nash, the PIE
  Failing to use AI in the classroom is a “disservice” to students, said EdTech experts at a conference about the future of online learning. Rather than be deterred by fears surrounding data privacy and cheating, universities must actively embrace generative AI to prepare students for the future of work and to enhance personalised learning and […]
• OpenAI unveils experimental ‘Swarm’ framework, igniting debate on AI-driven automation - Michael Nuñez, Venture Beat
  OpenAI has unveiled “Swarm,” an experimental framework designed to orchestrate networks of AI agents. This unexpected release has ignited intense discussions among industry leaders and AI ethicists about the future of enterprise automation, despite the company’s emphasis that Swarm is not an official product. Swarm provides developers with a blueprint for creating interconnected AI networks […]