This Was Written By a Human: A Real Educator’s Thoughts on Teaching in the Age of ChatGPT
The well-founded concerns surrounding ChatGPT shouldn’t distract us from considering how it might be useful.
The well-founded concerns surrounding ChatGPT shouldn’t distract us from considering how it might be useful.
We need more than agile methodologies in the higher education IT field. We need personal agile methods.
A recent guidance letter from the U.S. Department of Education applies “Third-Party Servicer” regulations to higher education institutions and to their content, software, systems, and services providers. Given the disruption this would cause, EDUCAUSE has asked the department to rescind the letter, fully consult with institutions and their stakeholders, and revise its guidance.
A survey of college and university websites gives an early indication about the ways institutions are addressing generative AI and what it might mean for higher education.
These ten principles offer guidance on ways to design and facilitate effective and engaging virtual workshops that leave faculty feeling better equipped to implement new edtech tools.
Over the past two years, a working group of the University of California Instructional Design and Faculty Support (IDFS) community of practice has developed a DEI Course Redesign Rubric. The goal is to share the rubric with as many faculty and instructional designers as possible across higher education, so as to foster thoughtful dialogue and careful, DEI-informed improvements to courses and to teaching and learning.
Many higher education leaders are beginning to discern the need to improve IT support for research across the college or university. The creation of a personalized portal for researchers is one way to do so.
The readings suggested here offer practical ways for higher education leaders to thrive. The first installment of the "Leaders Are Readers" series examines the leadership lessons in an article by Katia Passerini and books by Martin Luther King Jr., Will Guidara, and Chip Heath and Dan Heath.
A recent notice from the office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) provides a brief review of the pending changes to the Safeguards Rule and explains how FSA plans to ensure institutional compliance with the new requirements.
How institutions structure their data functions is as imperative as the data itself. To achieve a data-driven culture, and enable data-informed decision-making, some institutions are evolving their structures to adapt to the data and analytics needs of their stakeholders.