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• A scaffolded approach to teaching with GenAI - Rena Beatrice Alcalay, Times Higher Education
  As GenAI continues to reshape higher education, this four-phase framework by Rena Beatrice Alcalay offers educators ways to guide students to use these tools critically and ethically, fostering agency, bias awareness and deeper engagement in philosophical writing assignments. This pedagogical stance emphasises agency: students learn to critically assess what to include or exclude from AI-generated […]
• Internships and Beyond: Strengthening Career Value Across Diverse Models of Work-Based Learning -Nichole Torpey-Saboe, Kevin Grubb, Akua Amankwah-Ayeh; Strada
  Colleges and universities recognize that students are looking to them as a launching pad for their future. Eighty percent of freshmen say that “getting a better job” is a very important reason for attending, and 74 percent say “gaining training for a specific career” is very important in their decision to go to college. To […]
• The art of 21st-century leadership: From succession planning to building a leadership factory - McKinsey
  Complicated times demand great leaders. Here’s an overview of traits and practices required to succeed as a leader today and a look at the factory model that can help aspiring managers ascend. Leading a global organization in today’s fragmented world is difficult—perhaps more difficult than ever. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 and the acceleration of […]
• AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work - Anil Ananthaswamy, Wired
  Although AI has not yet led to new discoveries in physics, it’s becoming a powerful tool across the field. Along with helping researchers to design experiments, it can find nontrivial patterns in complex data. For example, AI algorithms have gleaned symmetries of nature from the data collected at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. These […]
• Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations - Anthropic
  We recently gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end conversations in our consumer chat interfaces. This ability is intended for use in rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions. This feature was developed primarily as part of our exploratory work on potential AI welfare, though it has broader relevance […]
• Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink - Julie Bort, Tech Crunch
  Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sources told the Financial Times. The startup is expected to be valued at $850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch […]
• MIT's new AI can teach itself to control robots by watching the world through their eyes — it only needs a single camera News - Tristan Greene, Live Science
  Scientists at MIT have developed a novel vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that can teach itself how to control virtually any robot without the use of sensors or pretraining. The system gathers data about a given robot’s architecture using cameras, in much the same way that humans use their eyes to learn about themselves as […]
• 5 Ways Online MBAs Use What They Learned At Work - Jeff Schmitt, Poets & Quants
  Use it or lose it. That’s the foundation of education. Just consult the Learning Pyramid: people remember 10% of what they read – but 90% of what they use. Practice makes perfect, you could say. That’s one of the big advantages to earning an online MBA. As undergrads, students listen to lectures, write papers, and […]
• Mediating role of online academic emotions between online presence and learning performance in blended learning environments - Xingqiao Li & Yinghua Ye, Nature
  Blended learning has been widely used and popularized in recent years. It was originally designed to create a highly engaging learning experience for students; however, in practice, it often falls short. In particular, online learning within blended learning environments suffers from a lack or inadequacy of online presence, which is likely to trigger students’ negative […]
• Google Pledges $1 Billion to Bring AI Training and Tools to US Colleges - CDO Magazine
  Google has committed $1 billion over the next three years to equip U.S. higher education institutions and nonprofits with artificial intelligence training, research resources, and advanced tools. More than 100 universities, including major public systems like Texas A&M and the University of North Carolina, have already joined the initiative. Participating schools may receive direct funding, […]
• Inside a Network of Fake College Websites - Josh Moody and Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  Dozens of fake college websites, which appear to be connected, are pushing scams. Many of the sites appear to be built with or supplemented by generative AI. “It took me a while to realize it wasn’t an actual institution,” said Aaron Ament, president of the National Student Legal Defense Network and a lawyer who has […]
• Anti-Perfectionist Productivity Coach - There's an AI for That (TAAFT) on Notion
  This prompt turns the AI into a high-empathy, anti-perfectionist productivity coach, someone who doesn’t force rigid systems onto messy lives but instead creates flexible, psychologically safe, adaptive frameworks. It’s designed for people who struggle with traditional productivity advice because of real-life unpredictability, resistance patterns, emotional fluctuations, or perfectionistic paralysis. Instead of treating resistance as a […]
• AI Can Facilitate Mastery Learning in Higher Education - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  What if higher education moved beyond rigid calendars and assembly-line teaching to AI-powered, mastery-based learning where every student truly understands the material before moving forward? I always had an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach when I submitted a C, D or F as a final grade. I felt that I had failed […]
• AI in the Classroom: MIT Study Explores ChatGPT and Critical Thinking - University of Louisiana at LaFayette, Distance Learning
  As instructional designers and technologists within the Office of Distance Learning, one of our goals is to help faculty navigate new and changing technologies in education, including AI. Our website includes a reference bank of generative AI tools and possible uses, as well as guidelines for both encouraging and preventing AI usage. We’re in good […]
• OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work - Will Knight, Wired
  Deep Research is available as part of all paid ChatGPT plans, although most users are capped at 10 queries per month. (People on the $200 ChatGPT Pro plan get 120 queries per month.) It takes a query, such as “Write me a report on the Massachusetts health insurance industry,” or “Tell me about WIRED’s coverage […]
• Indiana U to Launch GenAI 101 Course for Students, Staff - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
  A new, self-paced course at Indiana University teaches students, faculty and staff generative AI skills and expertise. As generative artificial intelligence skills have become more in demand among employers, colleges and universities have expanded opportunities for students to engage with the tools. Indiana University is no exception. It’s developed a free, online course for campus […]
• Gemini just got two of ChatGPT's best features - and they're free - Sabrina Ortiz, ZDnet
  Gemini can now remember chat context for personalized answers. Users can use Temporary Chat for added privacy. Google also added new data control settings you'll want to look at now. You can now reference your past chats with Google's Gemini AI chatbot for more personalized responses, the company said Wednesday. Google also added a Temporary […]
• Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. - Natasha Singer, NY Times
  Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which […]
• Why Faculty Hold The Keys To Higher Ed’s AI Digital Transformation - Aviva Legatt, Forbes
  If the 20th century belonged to the textbook, the 21st belongs to the prompt. In lecture halls from Toronto to San Diego to Ho Chi Minh City, students are already co-writing their education with algorithms. Nearly 80% of undergraduates worldwide are already using generative AI, often daily. What’s missing is not adoption—it’s alignment. While students are […]
• Sydney Uni students will use ChatGPT, so let’s teach them how - Adam Bridgeman and Danny Liu, Financial Review
  We now have a “two-lane approach” to assessments. Lane 1 assessments are secure and measure students’ capabilities in live, in-person environments, such as interactive oral assessments, Q&As or demonstrations, skills observations or, yes, sometimes exams. When these assessments are well-designed and executed, with AI use reliably controlled, they safeguard academic integrity and measure whether learning […]