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• Leadership is the scarcest resource: An interview with Bob McDonald - McKinsey
  As a former cabinet secretary of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and CEO of Procter & Gamble, Bob McDonald is one of a handful of leaders who has excelled in both the public and private sectors. Under his leadership at VA, he delivered a significant uplift in service to veterans and organizational culture, […]
• Build-to-last vs. building fast: Avoiding online program pitfalls - Bethany Simunich, University Business
  Demand for online courses continues to grow, with three-quarters of chief online learning officers now reporting an uptick in students requesting more online options. Nearly half of chief online learning officers (COLOs) say that online program enrollment is growing faster than on-campus enrollment.  To help meet demand, COLOs revealed that their top priority for online […]
• Job Interviews Enter a Strange New World With AI That Talks Back - Jo Constantz, Bloomberg
  Startups like Apriora, HeyMilo AI and Ribbon all say they’re seeing swift adoption of their software for conducting real-time AI interviews over video. Job candidates converse with an AI “recruiter” that asks follow-up questions, probes key skills and delivers structured feedback to hiring managers. The idea is to make interviewing more efficient for companies — […]
• These 3 digital accessibility strategies support today’s learners - Amy Lomellini, University Business
  Digital accessibility means designing websites, learning platforms and course content so that all students—across a wide range of abilities, devices and learning environments—can access, navigate, and benefit from them. The World Wide Web Consortium outlines this approach through the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which are built around four principles: content should be perceivable, operable, understandable, […]
• AI Researcher SHOCKING "Singularity in 2025 Prediction" - Wes Roth, YouTube
  This podcast episode discusses Dr. Alan D. Thompson's prediction that the singularity could occur sometime in mid-2025, suggesting we might already be in its early stages due to AI advancements. Dr. Thompson believes we are 94% of the way to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and approaching Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), a point echoed by Arvin […]
• How accreditors are navigating a new, anxious environment under Trump - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  “False claims that accreditors allow institutions to impose ideologies or take advantage of students and taxpayers are not only offensive, but they also blatantly misrepresent the objectives of the accreditation system,” CRAC said in the flyer. To understand what the accreditation system may look like during Trump’s second term, Higher Ed Dive spoke with two […]
• 1 in 4 employers say they’ll eliminate degree requirements by year’s end - Carolyn Crist, Higher Ed Dive
  A quarter of employers surveyed said they will remove bachelor’s degree requirements for some roles by the end of 2025, according to a May 20 report from Resume Templates. In addition, 7 in 10 hiring managers said their company looks at relevant experience over a bachelor’s degree while making hiring decisions. “Over the last five […]
• What College Graduates Need Most in the Age of AI - Michael Serazio, Time
  Intellectual humility demands that education hedge both “with” and “against” AI, because we can’t know which technologies will triumph and which will collect dust. Some become Facebook; others, the Metaverse. While colleges sort out Chat GPT’s precise place in matters curricular, we can double down on delivering what Generation AI equally needs: the experience of […]
• AI is Hurting Gen-Z Jobs. Here’s What Your Company Can Do About It - Kit Eaton, Inc.
  It might seem that exposure to AI in college would ready young people for the rapidly transforming workplace, but the evolving technology may be narrowing their options instead. This disruptive, innovative new technology is impacting Gen-Z workers in a few ways, and may be harming their future job prospects. The trend has bigger implications, since […]
• Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education: Ethical Challenges, Regulatory Frameworks and Educational Quality in a Systematic Review of the Literature Provisionally accepted -Iván Miguel García-LópezIván, Frontiers
  Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is changing how education works, making learning more personalized and teaching more efficient. But it also brings serious questions around ethics, regulation, and educational equity. This study reviews 53 research papers published since 2020 to identify key concerns like data privacy, algorithmic bias, and unequal access, while also exploring how GenAI […]
• The analysis of generative artificial intelligence technology for innovative thinking and strategies in animation teaching - Xu Yao, Yaozhang Zhong & Weiran Cao, Nature
  This work examines the application of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) technology in animation teaching, focusing on its role in enhancing teaching quality and learning efficiency through innovative instructional strategies. A mixed-methods research approach is adopted, integrating quantitative analysis (experimental data and questionnaire surveys) and qualitative analysis (behavioral observations) to systematically assess the educational effectiveness of […]
• OpenAI upgrades the AI model powering its Operator agent - Kyle Wiggers, Tech Crunch
  OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted virtual machine to fulfill users’ requests. Soon, Operator will use a model based on o3, one of the latest in OpenAI’s o series of “reasoning” models. Previously, Operator relied on a […]
• Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath - Jim VandeHei,Mike Allen, Axios
  Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us: AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told […]
• How Science Can Fix Its Trust Problem - Cory Miller & Michael L. Platt, Knowledge at Wharton
  Scientists today seem out of touch with reality. In the past, when a new administration proposed deep cuts to federal research, scientists reflexively girded for battle using a tried-and-true playbook. We circulated petitions, attended protests, fired off angry emails, lauded our accomplishments, and hoped the storm would pass, all while patting ourselves on the back. […]
• Practical Use Cases for Learning With VR In Higher Education - Amy Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
  As virtual reality technology continues to develop, more colleges and universities are integrating it into the student experience inside and outside of the classroom. A recent survey of chief technology officers by Inside Higher Ed and Hanover Research found that 14 percent of respondents said their institutions had made meaningful investments in virtual reality and […]
• AI is ‘breaking’ entry-level jobs that Gen Z workers need to launch careers, LinkedIn exec warns - Jason Ma, Fortune
  “Now it is our office workers who are staring down the same kind of technological and economic disruption,” he wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed. “Breaking first is the bottom rung of the career ladder.” For example, AI tools are doing the types of simple coding and debugging tasks that junior software developers […]
• The people who think AI might become conscious - Pallab Ghosh, BBC
  The "Dreamachine", at Sussex University's Centre for Consciousness Science, is just one of many new research projects across the world investigating human consciousness: the part of our minds that enables us to be self-aware, to think and feel and make independent decisions about the world. By learning the nature of consciousness, researchers hope to better […]
• An existential crisis’: can universities survive ChatGPT? - Louise Eccles and Lottie Hayton, London Times
  As chatbot use becomes ever more widespread, what began as a trickle of issues has evolved into a profound challenge for universities. If vast numbers of students are using chatbots to write, research, code and think for them, what is the purpose of a traditional education? Since that first call in 2023, Palmer has carved […]
• Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation system and decision support system for learning management of higher education online courses - Jiaohuan Yang, Nature
  The current circumstances encompass online learning management for improving learners’ access to study materials at their convenience, anytime, anywhere. Hence, establishing effective teaching and learning management is a primary concern in facilitating academic growth for both students and teachers in HEI2. Therefore, online educational websites must prioritize learning management and pedagogical excellence to meet the […]
• Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce - Jen Stave, Ryan Kurt and John Winsor, Harvard Business Review
  AI agents are fast becoming much more than just sidekicks for human workers. They’re becoming digital teammates—an emerging category of talent. To get the most out of these new teammates, leaders in HR and procurement will need to start developing an operational playbook for integrating them into hybrid teams and a workforce strategy. That strategy […]