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  • Author Talks: The biggest misconceptions about leadership - McKinsey
    What if success depends less on talent than on luck, resilience, and your choices when things go wrong? Former Inflection CEO Mike Grossman challenges conventional wisdom about success and leadership.  In this edition of Author Talks, McKinsey’s Artemis Vallianatos speaks with Mike Grossman, six-time Silicon Valley CEO and McKinsey alumnus, about Failure Is An Option: […]
  • Lifelong learning remains central to Mayo Clinic’s mission amid rapid healthcare change - Matthew Brenden, Mayo Clinic
    Healthcare is evolving at an unprecedented pace. Advances in artificial intelligence, precision medicine, digital health and quality improvement are transforming how care is delivered, while new knowledge and evolving professional standards require clinicians to continually adapt. For healthcare organizations, keeping pace is about more than meeting licensure or certification requirements. It requires a workforce prepared to respond to emerging […]
  • One New Thing: Virtual Reality Brings Collaborative Learning to Life - Melissa Morriss-Olson, US News
    Purdue University’s Envision Center has developed CollabXR, an extended reality platform that allows faculty and students to enter the same immersive virtual environment and interact with three-dimensional models together. During a spring 2025 pilot, instructors in disciplines ranging from nursing and aeronautics to the liberal arts used the platform to help students visualize and explore […]
  • From Workshop to Anytime: Bringing Live Training Online - Office of Innovative Technologies (UK)
    Some of the most valuable learning opportunities on campus happen in workshops. Whether they happen in a conference room or over Zoom, they create energy, connection, and opportunities for real-time questions. Workshops support learning and engagement across campus throughout the year. What a single session can’t do is reach everyone who needs it or remain […]
  • How to Leverage Tech to Serve Rural Communities - Catherine Han and Heather Marriott, NCOA
    The MAC, Inc., Maryland Living Well Center of Excellence (LWCE) is using technology to break down barriers for older adults in Smith Island and across Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties. All are regions marked by transportation limitations, health access challenges, and geographic isolation. Yet LWCE has become a beacon of innovation in aging services. […]
  • LSU Launches Free AI Literacy Essentials Course - LSU
    Today, LSU launched AI Literacy Essentials, a free online course that provides a general introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) and how to use it effectively, professionally, and ethically. The course is offered through LSU Online’s professional development program and is available now to LSU students, faculty, and staff, and will open to the general public […]
  • Would You Trust AI for Ethical Advice? - Christian Terwiesch, Gideon Nave, Lennart Meincke; Knowledge at Wharton
    No disrespect to philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, but Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch no longer reads his wildly popular advice column, “The Ethicist.” Terwiesch used to love the long-running column in The New York Times until 2023, when he and two Wharton colleagues conducted an experiment to see whether people could tell the difference between Appiah’s […]
  • A look at trends in college consolidation since 2016 - Higher Ed Dive Team
    We’re tracking major closings, mergers, acquisitions and other consolidation among public and private nonprofit institutions from 2016 to the present. The last few years have been tumultuous for many U.S. colleges. Pressure to lower tuition, stagnating state funding and a shrinking pool of high school graduates has strained many institutions’ bottom lines and questioned their […]
  • Pace of college closings picks up, with more projected - Jon Marcus, Hechinger Report
    Pssst — wanna buy a college campus? There’s a sudden market in abandoned campuses, an outgrowth of the accelerating rate of colleges closing in the face of falling enrollment, rising debt and other problems. More than 440 of the nation’s private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities are now at risk, based on enrollment trends, debt […]
  • What Canvas learned from a massive cyberattack - Alcino Donadel, University Business
    Artificial intelligence has made it easier for cyberattackers to breach college and university systems and steal valuable student and staff data. Canvas, higher education’s most high-profile victim this year, is remodeling its security to prepare for the inevitable next attempt. What experts have learned is that colleges may be sorely underprepared for the next evolution […]
  • Texas State University, Central Texas College announce expanded co-enrollment partnership serving Central Texas - Jayme Blaschke, Texas State University
    Texas State University (TXST) and Central Texas College (CTC) have announced a joint expansion of the TXST Local co-enrollment program, creating new opportunities for students in Central Texas to earn both associate and bachelor’s degrees through a coordinated, affordable pathway while allowing students to remain closer to home.  TXST Local is Texas State’s co-enrollment program, […]
  • The Next Competitive Advantage in Online Education - Adam Fein, 2U
    Adam Fein, Vice President of Academic Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at 2U, reflects on how online education has become an integral part of institution-wide strategies and why alignment and partnership are increasingly important to its success. Online education has always required many parts of a university to work together: admissions, financial aid, academics, advising, career […]
  • Focus on the Quantum Future - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
    While artificial general intelligence and artificial super intelligence will mark significant improvements in AI algorithms, there is not a single clear definition of either of these terms. Therefore, some experts believe that we have already achieved AGI and that ASI is just a year or two away; others say it will be the middle of […]
  • Loss of International Students Could Cost Economy $3.4B - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
    The United States may have as many as 112,000 fewer international students enrolled in higher education this coming academic year, according to new projections that NAFSA: Association of International Educators and JB International published Tuesday. Based on data from the Institute of International Education, the analysis estimates that about 1,057,000 international students will be enrolled […]
  • Focus on the Quantum Future - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
    While artificial general intelligence and artificial super intelligence will mark significant improvements in AI algorithms, there is not a single clear definition of either of these terms. Therefore, some experts believe that we have already achieved AGI and that ASI is just a year or two away; others say it will be the middle of […]
  • Universities would prefer not to. - Hollis Robbins, Hollis Robbins Annectdotal
    Four years after ChatGPT caught so many by surprise, the primary role of higher education seems to be slowing down the public’s transition to the AI era. For many faculty, this is a win. For those focused on the future, this is the biggest institutional failure since the Victorian Post Office, with its monopoly on […]
  • How to Build an Education Platform That Supports People Through Different Stages of Life - Danny Wesley, Hackernoon
    Despite the age difference, people are solving a similar problem: they are trying to move to the next level of what they are capable of. For a school student, that might mean getting into university. For a university student, access to the tools for a first set of professional skills. For an adult, a career […]
  • AI-Enabled Ghost Student Fraud: How IT Leaders Are Fighting Back - Adam Stone, EdTech
    Generative artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in ghost student fraud. Learn how layered identity verification, behavioral analytics and AI-driven pattern detection help higher ed IT leaders stop fraud rings before disbursement. First, there was the zombie college scam. Now it’s “ghost students,” bad actors leveraging artificial intelligence to create fake identities and enroll imaginary […]
  • How instructional design shapes higher-order thinking among higher education students in generative artificial intelligence-supported teaching contexts - Yujia Chen & Jinling Wang, Nature
    Against the backdrop of the widespread integration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) into higher education, previous research has yielded divergent findings regarding its relationship with students’ higher-order thinking (HOT). Moving beyond outcome-oriented discussions of technology use itself, this study examines the association between HOT performance, instructional design elements, and cognitive processes in GAI-supported teaching contexts […]
  • How AI Actually works - Cris Tolomia, Quartz
    This piece is not about whether AI is good or bad. It's about what it actually is: how it learns, how it generates output, where its failures come from, and why the problems that afflict these systems are structural rather than incidental. Understanding these things won't make you a machine learning engineer. It will make […]

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