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- Rice launches transformational AI initiative with faculty hiring, new programs and facilities - Jeff Falk, Rice NewsRice University has launched a transformational universitywide AI initiative to recruit 75 faculty members working across disciplines, invest in a new, state-of-the-art facility that advances research and industry collaboration, and expand AI-related courses and degrees, accelerating the institution’s emergence as a global leader in advanced computing and responsible AI. Rice has already recruited 35 faculty […]
- How Artificial Intelligence Can Help With Critical Thinking - Monideepa Tarafdar, Greater Good Berkley.eduIronically, perhaps, recent research shows that people who interact with generative AI for work tasks can end up not thinking critically. They can surrender to AI’s quick and confident answers, which can lead to speedy but low-quality solutions. Scholars refer to this increasingly prevalent problem as cognitive offloading. And they are showing that it can […]
- You Still Should Go To College In The Age Of AI. Here’s Why. - Jamie Merisotis, ForbesRapid advancements in artificial intelligence have raised uncertainty about jobs and the value of college. According to the Pew Research Center, young adults increasingly worry about AI taking jobs. No job is entirely AI-proof, creating a need for education and training that emphasizes human skills and adaptability. For college to remain valuable, it must become […]
- From feed to access: Official digital media channels, information quality and student engagement orientation in higher education - Reymond C. Dalupang, E-Learning and Digital Media (Sage Journals)Students in higher education increasingly receive academic and co-curricular information through official online pages, groups, and messaging channels. Although these channels are common, less is known about whether students experience them as complete, accurate, and retrievable digital media spaces that support participation in the wider higher education environment. This cross-sectional quantitative study examined 400 students […]
- Rush is on to patch a software vulnerability that could impact 70% of websites worldwide - DAVID MCHUGH and EMMA BURROWS, APGovernments and corporations worked throughout the night on urgent security updates after the AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a programming language vital to 70% of websites globally. Many government sites appeared to be functioning normally Thursday, but outages or limited service continued while security work was under way. The FBI’s cyber division warned on Wednesday […]
- The Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Powered Tutoring and Adaptive Learning Market Is Projected to Hit $20.6 Billion by 2030 - National Law ReviewThe rise of artificial intelligence in education is transforming how learners engage with content and receive personalized support. AI-powered tutoring and adaptive learning technologies are becoming central to this shift, enabling customized educational experiences across various settings. Let’s explore the current market landscape, growth drivers, regional trends, and key factors shaping this rapidly evolving sector. […]
- What Does the Credential Still Certify? Cognitive Stewardship for AI-Mediated Education - Kai Yao, AIES 2026Generative AI is changing a basic premise of educationalassessment: that submitted work can reliably evidence thehuman capacities a credential claims to certify. The chal-lenge is not simply whether students use AI, but what re-mains inferable about learning when some cognitive workhas been delegated to a system. This paper developscogni-tive stewardship, a framework for AI-mediated assessmentthat […]
- Strategies for making online courses more impactful - Heather Gass, Times Higher EducationIn an asynchronous environment, it is easy to hide behind the screen, quietly grade papers and manage the course. Our challenge is to break that barrier and show our students that we are here to support and guide them. Setting up an online presence:Developing your online presence at the beginning of the course is crucial. […]
- Towards Trustworthy Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Nursing Education:Integrating Nurse-Informed Design with a Frugal Neuro-Symbolic Architecture - Nevena K. Dicheva, AAAI/ACM Conference on AIThe design,development,and evaluation of EduNurse, a domain-specific ITS prototype for nursing education.Guided by the CARE-ITS frame-work, this research presents a scenario-based ITS prototype (EduNurse) that translates empirically de-rived learner needs, pedagogical considerations, and framework-guided design principles into a functional educational system. EduNurse does not introduce a new AI technique. Its contribution is how it brings […]
- The Uneven Payoff of Returning to College - Joshua Bay, Inside Higher EdA new report from California Competes, part of its ongoing Degrees of Value research series, examines the return on investment of a college degree among adults who previously stopped out and later graduated. Drawing on interviews with 27 California adult learners who left college and later returned, researchers explored the financial, personal and social benefits […]
- What’s the value of a university education? - Mariianne Mays Wiebe, University of Manitoba TodayWhat is the role of the university in the face of the major societal shift represented by artificial intelligence? Universities should continue to “embrace our role as institutions where students learn how to think, not what to think,” says Hiebert-Murphy. A university education, she suggests, “offers a learning environment in which students develop the skills […]
- AI Is Changing Jobs, Not Eliminating Them - Peter Cappelli, Knowledge at WhartonAgentic AI changes three fundamental constraints that have shaped the modern organization: human capacity, expertise, and coordination. For more than a century, the familiar building blocks of organizational design, from tasks and jobs to teams, management layers, and hierarchies, have reflected those constraints. AI doesn’t remove them entirely, but it alters them enough that leaders […]
- Are communication skills still important in the age of AI? Research says yes - RM Barton, PurdueIn an artificial intelligence (AI)-mediated world, many professionals are seeking skills that will help them weather technological shifts and find career stability. Emerging research suggests that the skills the future job market will demand most are skills that technology cannot replace or replicate: people skills. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the importance of people […]
- As frontier models go rogue, colleges beef up AI cybersecurity education - Eric Geller, Cybersecurity DiveAs the world increasingly recognizes the need for safer and more secure AI, U.S. colleges and universities are trying to meet a growing demand for AI security education that prepares future workers to safeguard businesses’ and governments’ powerful AI systems. AI cybersecurity education programs, from undergraduate and graduate classes to professional certificates, are sprouting up […]
- The AI Invasion Has Come for Mathematics - Ahmed Abbes and Haynes Miller, Inside Higher EdOn Tuesday, OpenAI released hundreds of new mathematical findings, following closely on the resolution by OpenAI’s bots of the Millennium Prize problem addressing the Navier-Stokes equations. This was a true blitz: 10,000 internal agents spent 88 hours and produced a proof apparently satisfying the criteria of this challenge, issued by the Clay Mathematics Institute some […]
- He Helped Create Modern AI. Now the ‘Godfather of AI’ Wants an FDA-Style Approval System for It. - Sherin Shibu, EntrepreneurGeoffrey Hinton is known as the “Godfather of AI” due to his pioneering work in the field.The Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist wants new AI models to be approved like drugs.Hinton’s call for greater oversight arrives as AI industry insiders raise alarms about the technology they are helping build.https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/the-godfather-of-ai-wants-an-fda-style-approval-process
- The Superintelligence Force: A Moment to Reconsider the Pace and Nature of AI - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher EdI am not entirely convinced that the “Superintelligence Force” is the best way to cool down the competition and slow down the race. However, here we are. This is the only available opportunity to cool down the competition and pursue a safer approach to further development. Although higher education was not heavily consulted in the […]
- Workforce in motion: Skills and pathways to future jobs in the United States - María Jesús Ramírez, Kweilin Ellingrud, Tanguy Catlin, Diego Castresana, and Anna Kortis -McKinseyAI, automation, and broader structural trends are accelerating the reallocation of work across the US economy. Capturing its benefits requires developing new professional pathways and skills, and reducing barriers between declining and growing occupations. The US economy could create more jobs in the next decade than will be replaced through automation, but the change may require […]
- Deluge of 377 OpenAI proofs bewilders the math world - Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta MagazineThe technology firm OpenAI has announced the solutions to 377 open questions across nearly every mathematical subdiscipline. The results are spread over 722 papers, which OpenAI has uploaded to the Github code repository. They were achieved by a new, unnamed internal model that the company intends to release publicly in the near future, once they […]
- UW-Stevens Point to host lectures, panels on strategies to navigate AI misinformation - UW Stevens PointThe “Truth, Trust and Technology: Information in the Age of AI” series for the 2026-2027 academic year aims to help people navigate the complexities of information people must evaluate with an abundance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within digital platforms we read and use. This kickoff event, “Technology Brought Us Here, Now What?” features presenter Chad […]
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