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• How Rising Higher Ed Costs Change Student Attitudes About College - Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge
   “We have a few people that are going to trade school, we have a few people that are going to the military, a few people who wrote ‘still deciding,’” said Lisa Beckham, a staffer for the counseling center, as she helped hand out markers in May as the school year was winding down. Others, she […]
• The Intelligence Age - Sam Altman
  It won’t happen all at once, but we’ll soon be able to work with AI that helps us accomplish much more than we ever could without AI; eventually we can each have a personal AI team, full of virtual experts in different areas, working together to create almost anything we can imagine. Our children will […]
• States Where Student Loan Delinquency Is Increasing the Most - Adam McCann, WalletHub
  Over the past year, student loan payments have come due with a vengeance (or at least with interest), as students have no longer been able to benefit from the multi-year payment moratorium started during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people have struggled to keep up, and being delinquent on student loans has damaged their credit scores […]
• Addressing evolving challenges to research security in the age of AI - Times Higher Education
  As technology continues to shape research practices, safeguarding research has become increasingly complex. Universities face many emerging challenges, including data security, regulatory changes and concerns around the use of AI. However, technological solutions are also evolving, empowering institutions to address these issues proactively. Times Higher Education hosted a webinar on the topic – in partnership […]
• OpenAI Hires Former Coursera Executive to Expand AI Use in Schools - Shirin Ghaffary, Bloomberg
  OpenAI has hired former Coursera Inc. executive Leah Belsky to be its first general manager of education, leading the artificial intelligence startup’s efforts to bring its products to more schools and classrooms. Belsky, previously the chief revenue officer at the online learning platform, will be tasked with boosting OpenAI’s engagement with instructors and students across […]
• Is AI Really a Threat to Higher Education? - Daniel Graham, Psychology Today
  But it is not just future AI programmers who stand to benefit from honing their cognitive skills in higher ed. It is the whole spectrum of knowledge workers from lawyers and doctors to teachers, managers, marketers, artists, and architects that will still need to use their brains to be creative and think critically. Yes, some […]
• A Near-Future Vision of AI in Higher Ed - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  The state of the art of generative artificial intelligence is changing at lightning speed. Advances come by the hour, not just by the day. How might this play out in higher ed? To effectively envision the near future of generative AI in higher ed, we need to at least briefly consider the context of the […]
• Everything You Need to Know about AI Agents - Peter H. Diamandis interviews Emad Mostaque
  The video talks about AI agents and the concept of AI Atlantis. AI Atlantis is a metaphor for the vast number of AI agents that are being created. These AI agents are like interns or grads who are still under development. They can be trained to do specific tasks such as translation, painting or SEO. […]
• Walmart Says 75% Of Its U.S. Roles Now Don’t Require Degrees—And Plans New Skills Project - Jena McGregor, Forbes
  One thing that was clear from this year’s summit: The two issues chief human resources officers are most focused on right now are the impact of AI on individual jobs, workforces and even humans at large—and how to become more of a skills-based organization. On the latter issue, we spoke exclusively with Walmart’s chief people […]
• How You Become Irreplaceable In The Age Of AI - Forbes
  "The more different our capabilities are from the capabilities of AI, the more we can create value with AI, the more we can create synergies," Bornet explained. By developing these uniquely human traits, we create a complementarity with AI that allows us to generate more value than either humans or AI could alone. Being Change-Ready […]
• How AI and XR hold the key to inclusive STEM learning - Monica Arés, Open Access Government
  Despite its vast potential, higher education has yet to fully harness the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), and spatial computing. These technologies are poised to revolutionise our approach to knowledge, addressing challenges around student disengagement and rigid learning models – both of which pose as barriers to inclusion – by merging human […]
• Survey: When Should College Students Use AI? They’re Not Sure - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
  A May 2024 Student Voice survey from Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab found that, when asked if they know when or how to use generative AI to help with coursework, a large number of undergraduates don’t know or are unsure (31 percent). Among students who did know when to use AI appropriately, that direction […]
• Online classrooms where students run the show: we tested how this unconventional model can work - Matthew Wingfield, Bettina von Lieres, Laurence Piper; the Conversation
  This is a Global Classroom for Democracy Innovation meeting. The initiative was launched in 2020 as the COVID pandemic brought face-to-face learning to a grinding halt all over the world. We were teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on democratic participation and global development at Stellenbosch University (South Africa), the University of Toronto, Scarborough (Canada) […]
• Online learning’s future must balance innovation and values - Mary Hawkins, Nebraska Examiner
  While demand for online education spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, research done through the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) project indicates the market has not yet peaked in the post-secondary space. Considering that only 24% of public and 8% of private four-year schools say they “widely use” online learning, there’s plenty of room for […]
• New certificate program helps students unlock and understand artificial intelligence - Jen Schneider, Boise State News
  A new campus-wide certificate program, Artificial Intelligence for All, managed by the College of Innovation and Design, will equip students with the skills they need to navigate evolving AI technologies, to use them correctly and contend with the ethical dilemmas that arise through this powerful tool. The program, which launched this fall with an AI […]
• Three Artificial Intelligence Bills Endorsed by Federation of American Scientists Advance from the House Committee - Federation of American Scientists
  Three proposed artificial intelligence bills endorsed by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a nonpartisan science think tank, advance forward from a House Science, Space, and Technology Committee markup held on September 11th, 2024. These bills received bipartisan support and will now be reported to the full chamber. The three bills are: H.R. 9403, the […]
• 2025 AI : 10 Things Coming In 2025 (A.I In 2025 Major Predictions) - the AIGrid
  The two most important points are that agents and voice assistants will see significant improvements. Agents are AI systems that can be instructed to do a variety of tasks. In the future, agents will be able to complete more complex tasks, and they will be able to take over user devices to perform actions like […]
• Hungry for more learning? Bite sized PD can whet the appetite - Freya Lucas, the Sector
  While the desire to learn more is strong, time can be poor, particularly in sectors such as early childhood education and care, where the need for hands-on and hyper focused attention is high. Enter microcredentials. Employees want to learn more, employers want highly skilled people, however there is no way to manufacture more time. More […]
• What is digital-twin technology? - McKinsey & Company
  A digital twin is a digital replica of a physical object, person, system, or process, contextualized in a digital version of its environment. Digital twins can help many kinds of organizations simulate real situations and their outcomes, ultimately allowing them to make better decisions. What would you do if you had a copy of yourself? […]
• What College Leaders Want From Harris and Trump - Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed
  The American Council on Education, the chief lobbying group for the higher education industry, wants the next president to repeal the tax on wealthy universities’ endowments and work to increase the Pell Grant to $13,000 from $7,395 as a way of making college more affordable, among other policies. Former president Donald Trump has released few […]