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• ChatGPT 5: Release Date, Features & Prices - Niel C. Hughes, Technopedia
  The earliest expected release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5 is early in the summer of 2024. ChatGPT 5 is said to bring improved contextual understanding and AI agents capable of operating autonomously — no humans involved. The GPT-5 model is “materially better”, according to one sneak preview. New developments may include Sora and the AI voice […]
• Students Needing Career Advice Turn to Faculty - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
  Faculty members serve as a critical resource for students charting their career paths, according to a new survey from the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE), with support from the American Association of Colleges and Universities and the National Society of Experiential Education. The study—which included full professors on down to adjunct-level instructors—found 92 […]
• Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems - Karen Weise and Cade Metz, NY Times
  Now tech companies are starting to embrace smaller A.I. technologies that are not as powerful but cost a lot less. And for many customers, that may be a good trade-off. On Tuesday, Microsoft introduced three smaller A.I. models that are part of a technology family the company has named Phi-3. The company said even the […]
• Here are 7 free AI classes you can take online from top tech firms, universities - PRESTON FORE, Fortune
  “AI is providing people with on-demand learning anywhere they are at any time of day on any day,” says Jared Curham, a professor of work and organizational studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Curhan recently launched two new AI-powered courses focused on the world of strategic negotiation and says that the technology is overall […]
• How New Grads Can Find a Job in the Age of AI - Angie Kamath, US News
  So how do students (and their families) navigate this exciting and stressful time when Americans are reading about AI disrupting jobs at every turn? The best advice is to find impactful and purpose-driven work while being attuned to new trends that have emerged as the AI landscape matures. In higher education, enrollment professionals often talk […]
• University of Saint Katherine shuts down after less than 15 years - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  Facing a “steep” cash shortfall, California-based University of Saint Katherine is closing and will file for bankruptcy, President Frank Papatheofanis said in a letter to campus posted on social media last week by one of the institution’s sports teams. Behind the private nonprofit’s crunch in operating cash is “extraordinary inflation,” including salary increases, as well […]
• Wharton’s Ethan Mollick: Co-intelligence and AI in education - Wachira Kigotho, University World News
  Love them or hate them, artificial intelligence technologies are pushing the frontiers of teaching and learning, causing excitement as well as anxiety, and uncertainty as to whether they will eventually replace teachers. However, says education expert Ethan Mollick: “There is no doubt that education will adapt to AI far more effectively than other industries, and […]
• Authentic Assessment in the era of AI - Advance-HE
  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we work and learn. Increasingly sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) tools can competently complete tasks currently the remit of professional roles. Higher Education providers, therefore, need to systematically think about how the increased use of these tools will change their practices. It is easy to get fixated on […]
• 4 Traits That Quickly Identify Someone With Good Leadership Skills - Marcel Schwantes, Inc.
  "Yes, you must deliver results," Davis says, "but people today want generous leaders who will work to see beyond themselves--you must learn to lead with your heart. Being vulnerable with your staff is intimidating, but connecting with your people will not only help you grow as a leader and a person, but will grow your […]
• Should online educational platforms offer courses following a schedule or release them on demand? - Marilyn Stone, Phys.org
  Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pennsylvania have published a new Journal of Marketing study that examines online educational platforms and the question of whether they should release content through a scheduled format that resembles a traditional university course or use an on-demand release strategy. The study is titled "More Likely to Pay […]
• Policies promoting digital education credentials - Sopiko Beriashvili & Michael Trucano, Brookings
  Policymakers, organizations, and practitioners around the world that are attempting to implement digital credentials and LERs at scale have identified three common challenges. Countries do not often consider employers as key stakeholders in the process of developing and implementing policies surrounding digital credentials and LERs. It is often unclear how digital credential and LER programs […]
• No-Code RAG and the Generative AI Knowledge Revolution - BRET KINSELLA, Synthedia
  Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is probably the most referenced acronym in generative AI, aside from LLM. The reason for this is simple. RAG makes LLM-enabled knowledge assistants more accurate by grounding them in a specific dataset. Generative AI is a knowledge assistance revolution. It is unlocking access to information in our vast stores of text […]
• Wells College to close at the end of the spring term - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  Wells College, in New York, announced Monday that it will close at the end of the spring term. The private nonprofit institution said it has faced prolonged financial distress that it was unable to address through fundraising or other measures. Wells also cited demographic challenges, the pandemic, inflation and “an overall negative sentiment towards higher […]
• DeepMind researchers discover impressive learning capabilities in long-context LLMs - Ben Dickson, Venture Beat
  In a few years, large language models (LLMs) have gone from handling a few hundred words of input to several books’ worth of content at the same time. These expanded input capacities, also referred to as the “context window,” are enabling new applications and use cases that were previously impossible without extensive engineering efforts. A […]
• AI has taken over education technology. What will come next? - Pavithra Mohan, Fast Company
  For a time, online learning platforms were ascendant, meeting the moment when workplaces and schools alike went remote (and later, hybrid). With the public debut of ChatGPT in 2022, edtech companies—such as edX, which was one of the first online learning giants to launch a ChatGPT plugin—jumped at the opportunity to integrate generative AI into […]
• 11 Online Learning Trends to Know Now - Sarah Wood, US News
  While hastily planned remote instruction differs from fully planned online college programs, education experts say recent cultural shifts and a desire for flexibility accelerated the growth of online learning. Colleges are now poised to offer more choices in distance learning, but it takes time, expertise and resources to develop quality online degree programs, says Lisa […]
• OpenAI is rumored to be dropping GPT-5 soon — here's what we know about the next-gen model - Ryan Morrison, Tom's Guide
  Chat GPT-5 is very likely going to be multimodal, meaning it can take input from more than just text but to what extent is unclear. Google’s Gemini 1.5 models can understand text, image, video, speech, code, spatial information and even music. GPT-5 is likely to have similar capabilities. One of the biggest changes we might […]
• The best free AI courses (and whether AI 'micro-degrees' and certificates are worth it) - David Gewirtz, ZDnet
  So, do certificates have any value? Yes, but how much value they have depends on your prospective employer's perspective. A certificate says you completed some course of study successfully. That might be something of value to you, as well. You can set a goal to learn a topic, and if you get a credential, you […]
• Confronting the ethical issues of human-like AI - James Thomason, Venture Beat
  As AI output quickly becomes indistinguishable from human behavior, are we prepared to handle the ethical and legal fallout? The practice of designing AI to intentionally mimic human traits, or “pseudoanthropy”, is raising urgent questions about the responsible use of these technologies. Key among these are questions of transparency, trust and the potential for unintended […]
• More than half of U.S. has tried generative AI according to Adobe Analytics - Carl Franzen, Venture Beat
  Just how far has generative AI — the latest tech trend from Silicon Valley, which rocketed to prominence with the November 2022 release of ChatGPT by OpenAI — permeated the mainstream? In the U.S., around 53 percent of people have tried it, according to a new survey of 3,000 participants from Adobe Analytics. By and […]