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• Small AI, Big Learning Possibilities - WorldBank
  Small AI is helping teachers strengthen learning and students make more informed choices about education and work. The World Bank Group is working with countries to pilot small AI tools that support teachers, personalize learning, and guide students’ career choices. AI-Coach is an example of small AI: practical, affordable technology designed to address a specific […]
• Building the future of online graduate studies at the U of A - Tracy Raivio, Trish Manns and Jessica Butts Scott, University of Alberta
  Today’s graduate students are balancing ambitious career goals with the pursuit of advanced education. Their learning extends beyond the traditional classroom, taking place in home offices, on morning commutes or in quiet corners of coffee shops, with coursework woven into busy workdays. Working professionals want an education that fits their lives and connects learning to […]
• What is a forward-deployed engineer? - McKinsey
  Interest in forward-deployed engineers, or FDEs, has surged in recent months as companies try to get real value from AI. The term may be a buzzword for a service that consulting firms and technology providers have offered for years: embedding engineers at a client’s company, inside its systems and data, to build software alongside the […]
• The power of feedback to build belonging in online learning - María de Lourdes Gómez Calvo & Estefannía Garza Tamez, Times Higher Education
  As online educators, we have realised that developing belonging is not optional. If we want students to truly engage in the learning process, it is our duty to develop it. We need to communicate the following: “You matter here. I see you.” In online courses, feedback is one of the clearest ways to send this […]
• CMU Introduces 4 New Online Graduate Certificates for Professionals - Alexander Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University is introducing four online graduate certificates designed to help working professionals build graduate-level expertise in artificial intelligence, robotics, software engineering and product management. Built to fit the busy schedules of working professionals, the certificates offer flexible online learning and opportunities to apply new knowledge and skills immediately in the workplace. The programs […]
• A New Home for Nontraditional Students - Joshua Bay, Inside Higher Ed
  More than housing: Eaton is among more than 300 students who can live at 99 Claremont, designed specifically for undergraduates at Columbia’s School of General Studies whose paths to college have included military service, professional careers or time away from school. The facility represents the university’s latest effort to strengthen community among students whose needs […]
• Survey: 48% of Employers Say AI Will Make College Degrees More Important - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  Despite fears that AI will replace many entry-level white collar jobs, new data shows that many employers still want workers with a college degree. According to a survey of 2,500 employers that the Lumina Foundation and Gallup published Tuesday, 48 percent of employers believe artificial intelligence will make college degrees more important over the next […]
• The AI value curve: The economics of applying AI to existing work - McKinsey
  AI is being deployed widely across enterprises, but adoption is being measured far more than value. The AI value curve compares the cost of a task as performed today with the full cost of doing it with AI, revealing a roughly $2.5 trillion annual global opportunity in deploying the technology across certain sectors, regions, and […]
• US university offers cut-price UK degree for international students - Andrew Jack, Financial Times
  Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, said he aimed to expand to an annual intake of up to 4,000 students in the UK in the coming years. A small cohort has begun pilot business, engineering and computer science degrees this autumn on ASU’s new London campus. “We are making this as affordable as possible,” […]
• Assessments in Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  Some faculty members fail to recognize that the world has changed and we must respond to those changes in how and what we do to prepare learners for their careers and personal aspirations. It is frustrating for many to be required to redesign their teaching content and methods in response to the larger worldwide technological […]
• Why Hands-On Training Still Matters in a Digital Age - Michael Burke, Occupational Health and Safety
  Over the last quarter century, computer-based and online learning have become basic components of many emergency and disaster response training programs. But in recent years, more advanced forms of technology such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), serious games and now artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly being explored as immersive tools to integrate into […]
• Indiana Tech gets national recognition for online learning improvements - Ashley Sloboda, The Journal Gazette
  Mary Beth Graham, online learning director, underscored the importance of the initiative, which supports the university’s goal of providing academic programs that prepare students for workforce success. “It is our responsibility to provide our learners with opportunities for success and the support needed to help them succeed,” Graham said in a statement. “This initiative has […]
• AI in the Business Classroom: Building Better Thinkers in Macroeconomics - University of Dayton
  Artificial intelligence is changing how students access information. For Marlon Williams, associate professor of economics, that isn't a challenge. It's an opportunity to help students think more deeply. In ECO 204: Principles of Macroeconomics, Williams uses AI to reinforce learning rather than replace it, reflecting the University of Dayton School of Business Administration's approach to […]
• AI Isn’t the Problem. We Are. - Louis-Francois P. Belanger and Zakiriya H. Gladney, Harvard Crimson
  As students, part of our engagement with our education is externally motivated — and reasonably so. Competitive admissions select for students who treat knowledge as capital, something to acquire and exchange for other goods: we pursue grades, summer programs, and extracurriculars to get into selective universities. Once we get to Harvard, these pressures return as […]
• AI is changing work. Now it has to change the organization - Alexis Krivkovich, Brooke Weddle, Holly Price, and Vik Sohoni, McKinsey
  Agentic AI changes three fundamental constraints that have shaped the modern organization: human capacity, expertise, and coordination. For more than a century, the familiar building blocks of organizational design, from tasks and jobs to teams, management layers, and hierarchies, have reflected those constraints. AI doesn’t remove them entirely, but it alters them enough that leaders […]
• Before HR Automates a Task With AI, Ask What It Used to Teach - Dmitry Zaytsev, SHRM
  That question matters because some work that looks inefficient on a process map is also where employees learn judgment, context, and quality. Early drafts, basic analysis, research summaries, first customer responses, and routine problem solving may be slow. They may need manager review. They may not look strategic. But for many employees, especially early career […]
• A university-branded boot camp promised tech jobs. It delivered only debt - Sarah Butrymowicz, Hechinger Report
  To its critics, including many former students who feel misled by the company, the sudden closure of IronCircle may seem a fitting culmination to its eight years of operation. The company, which had gone through two name changes in that time, regularly charged students as much as $18,900 for classes and then failed to help […]
• Six HBCUs Join Forces To Expand Access To Online Education - RTM Newsroom, Michigan Chronicle
  Six historically Black colleges and universities are working together to make earning a degree or professional credential more accessible through a shared online education platform. The initiative, called eHBCU, allows prospective students to explore and apply for online degree programs, certificates and career preparation opportunities offered by six participating institutions through one centralized application. Launched […]
• Rice launches transformational AI initiative with faculty hiring, new programs and facilities - Jeff Falk, Rice News
  Rice University has launched a transformational universitywide AI initiative to recruit 75 faculty members working across disciplines, invest in a new, state-of-the-art facility that advances research and industry collaboration, and expand AI-related courses and degrees, accelerating the institution’s emergence as a global leader in advanced computing and responsible AI. Rice has already recruited 35 faculty […]
• How Artificial Intelligence Can Help With Critical Thinking - Monideepa Tarafdar, Greater Good Berkley.edu
  Ironically, perhaps, recent research shows that people who interact with generative AI for work tasks can end up not thinking critically. They can surrender to AI’s quick and confident answers, which can lead to speedy but low-quality solutions. Scholars refer to this increasingly prevalent problem as cognitive offloading. And they are showing that it can […]