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• Smarter Support: How to Use AI in Online Courses and Teach Your Students to Use It Too - Joel Greene, Faculty Focus
  Whether we were ready or not, AI is in the room. And if you’re teaching online, you’ve probably already seen it at work in discussion posts, essays, or that strangely perfect email. Instead of panicking or pretending it’s not happening, we’ve got a better option. We can help students learn how to use AI responsibly, […]
• Forms of synchronous hybrid learning spaces in higher education – A type-building qualitative content analysis - Christina Hümmer, et al; Science Direct
  Synchronous hybrid learning spaces are educational environments in higher education, in which students participate synchronously on-campus and online. To foster well-founded design decisions, this paper undertakes a systematisation of forms of synchronous hybrid learning spaces. To this end, interviews with 20 German lecturers from different higher education institutions and disciplines are analysed. Overall, three forms […]
• Carol Gilbert: A Different Way to Learn - KQED
  Do I think all online learning is bad? Certainly not. Using smart educational software, educators can use student data to develop individualized learning programs that include all of the support that students need to be successful. Future online education is anticipated to evolve in a manner that combines virtual reality, artificial intelligence and global cooperation. […]
• 'This stuff is moving so quickly': Utah Tech leaders discuss AI, unveil new cybersecurity degree - Nick Fiala, St. George News / KSL
  Utah Tech University spent part of its recent Fall Academic Convocation discussing the evolving use of artificial intelligence in both business and academia and how best to implement it in the future. The university also announced on Wednesday that it will be launching a new program this fall for students to acquire a bachelor of […]
• Does GenAI provide the opportunity for creativity to take centre stage? - Ioannis Glinavos, Times Higher Education
  For centuries, universities have delivered scarce expertise. We stacked programmes like layer cakes: first theory, then practice, finally – if there was time – a sprinkle of creativity. Generative AI flips that order. Because routine skills are on tap, the bottleneck shifts upstream to ideation: spotting problems worth solving and framing them so the machine […]
• AI’s Rapid Integration into Higher Education Transforming Student Experiences and Faculty Challenges - SSB Crack News
  A college senior entering the new academic year has experienced nearly their entire undergraduate journey alongside the rise of generative AI. The landscape shifted dramatically with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, coinciding with this student’s freshman year. Faculty and administration at institutions like Washington University in St. Louis have witnessed this rapid transformation. […]
• 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 […]