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Summer 2024 at UTRGV just got better! Grad students can be eligible for up to $2,000! If you've been waiting to start your Master's degree in Educational Technology, here's a great reason for starting this summer. Visit: http://utrgv.edu/edtech Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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"UTRGV is pleased to announce a new incentive program to encourage summer enrollment among new graduate students. Effective immediately, all new graduate students enrolling in summer courses will be eligible for a $2,000 or a $1,000 incentive. This initiative is designed to boost summer enrollment and support our graduate students financially during their studies.
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"Durable skills are not only a real thing but a civilizational shift. AI is not the cause. It's an accelerant and a wake-up call. Particularly when working with AI, I argue that teaching skills are durable skills."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Teaching skills are durable skills that translate quite well to the AI world."
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Online Program Management companies have helped hundreds of colleges build online degree programs, but the sector is showing signs of strain.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"For more than 15 years, a group of companies known as Online Program Management providers, or OPMs, have been helping colleges build online degree programs. And most of them have relied on an unusual arrangement — where the companies put up the financial backing to help colleges launch programs in exchange for a large portion of tuition revenue."
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Leaders across higher education can use this generative AI readiness tool to ensure AI is implemented safely and securely.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive technologies in history, offering higher education institutions the opportunity to re-imagine a world where learning is highly personalized, seamless, and available to everyone... How can we leverage this technology and realize its potential while preparing our institutions, faculty, staff, and students for responsible use?"
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"Instructors may struggle to connect with online students without an intentional focus on instituting social presence strategies. How instructors implement social presence is a key indicator of their involvement in the online classroom. "
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[S]ocial presence is a vital component of success for those who teach and learn in virtual environments."
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Educators must recognize the transformative potential of digital tools and AI in shaping the future of social studies education.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Digital tools and AI can prepare students for active citizenship in a global society"
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Generative artificial intelligence carries the potential for more creative, authentic tests – but also carries significant risk.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
Imagine "taking a math test that is created for you on the spot, the questions written to be responsive to the strengths and weaknesses you’ve displayed in prior answers."
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Google Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is the latest AI tool available to educators
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Understanding what Google Gemini is, how it operates, and how it can be utilized in the educational space, can go a long way in ingratiating AI to educators on a grander scale."
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From the future of higher education to regulating artificial intelligence/AI, Reid Hoffman and Nicholas Dirks had a robust discussion during this Academy event.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The topic of education was an opportunity for Hoffman to turn the tables and ask Dirks about his book. Hoffman asked Dirks how institutions of higher education need to think about themselves as nodes of networks and how they might reinvent themselves to be less siloed."
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Experts at the Higher Learning Commission's annual conference shared strategies to help institutions navigate an increasingly automated world.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"While instructors and administrators weigh if and how to incorporate artificial intelligence into coursework, the emerging technologies pose broader existential questions about the role of higher education."
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In the year since Turnitin launched its AI writing detection tool, the company found students have consistently used the tech in classwork.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI-generated content continues to show up in student work, according to Turnitin, a plagiarism detection platform."
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Institutions ‘got it wrong’ by putting all the attention on assessment when large language models first launched, say experts
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"Institutions ‘got it wrong’ by putting all the attention on assessment when large language models first launched, say experts"
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"COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. A great deal of edtech purchases went unused, equity gaps widened, and teachers and students were burned out. Combined with sobering reports on the persistent lack of strong evidence for edtech, it’s no wonder why the notion of using technology to “fix broken schools” has fallen out of most startup pitch decks and education TED Talks. Yet it seems the reckoning has been cut short."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"We Need to Stop Treating Education Like a Sickness and Edtech Like Medicine."
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Checkout our collection of the best AI Chrome extensions. From checking spelling and grammar errors to generating summaries and outlines, these AI Chrome extensions are the best.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Since Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, made its API public, there have been a number of Chrome extensions developed to take advantage of the AI revolution. These AI-powered browser extensions offer a wide range of features that can help teachers create a more engaging learning environments for their students."
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“We must remember that tech companies want different things for our children from what we do,” writes an English teacher.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Our job should be to question whether generative AI serves our students’ humanity"
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eLearning platforms have emerged as a bright example of innovation in the educational system, revolutionizing personalized learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Personalized learning is not a brand-new idea. Yet, its integration into eLearning strategies has entirely changed the way that education is delivered. Learners are no longer exposed to a one-size-fits-all method. Rather, individuals are met with educational opportunities that adjust to their performances, choices, and pace."
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"In today’s evolving field of learning design and technology (LDT), the ability to create engaging and immersive learning experiences has risen to greater prominence and lies at the heart of what is referred to as learning experience design (LXD)."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This article aims to address the need for greater conceptual clarity surrounding the current state of LXD."
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"The incorporation of AI in learning environments promises to deliver tailored educational experiences that cater to individual student needs, thereby boosting understanding and knowledge assimilation."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI in education is a rapidly growing field. There’s a conspicuous surge in demand for personalized learning experiences, driven by the proliferation of e-learning platforms and online courses that leverage machine learning to adapt to individual students’ needs."
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"Overall, respondents' sentiments toward their institution's strategic planning and readiness were more similar across position and areas of responsibilities than they were different."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"By understanding areas of consensus and divergence, institutional leaders can better decide how to involve stakeholders in AI planning and initiatives and determine what targeted communication and collaborative efforts may be needed as part of this."
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Microcredentials are evolving to help different student groups in higher education demonstrate expertise and capabilities.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Microcredentials help different students in different ways through flexibility and skills demonstration"
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"In two major studies in Denmark, experts in computer science and in the sociology of science are exploring how researchers are using generative AI – and how rapidly evolving AI tools might change ways in which scientific knowledge is produced and diffused."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he aim of the project is to give us all a much clearer picture of the new and unexpected consequences of AI-infused science.”
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Elon University’s Professor Mustafa Akben offers his thoughts on how educators and universities can incorporate AI into the classroom to prepare students for future careers where AI collaboration will likely be the norm.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues its rapid ascent, higher education institutions are pondering strategies for adapting and equipping their students with the skills necessary to thrive in an AI-oriented workforce."
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Administrators share how they’re preparing for a new state law that requires all Tennessee K-12 public schools to adopt an AI use policy by fall.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Officials from Tennessee’s Milan Special School District and Oak Ridge Schools share how they’re navigating their approaches to AI use as the state’s deadline approaches to develop a districtwide policy."
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"The AIAS emerged from discussions with colleagues about the need for a more nuanced approach to integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into assessments. We felt that a simple yes/no to using GenAI would be unsustainable and that we needed a framework that could account for the rapid advancements in the technology while also honouring our students’ integrity and creativity. The AIAS was designed from the start to be flexible, with the understanding that multimodal GenAI will impact all disciplines."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he AIAS offers a practical, flexible, and adaptable framework for integrating GenAI into educational assessments."
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Learning Technologies 2024. Great to see some people, have a hot and sweaty browse round the exhibition and chew the cud over a few bottle
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he best time to ask questions about the future is not during the euphoria of the party, but after. What is actually happening? Where are we going?"
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An article published online by one of the major UK national newspapers caught my attention this week. The headline writers excelled in capturing interest with the title "Online learning has all but destroyed the university experience. If you've spent any time working in online education, you'r
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[I]t is possible to work in online and digital education while recognising both the inherent problems and the benefits and opportunities of digital technologies."
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Ontario's Min of Ed Document Growing Success, 2010 sure helps advise the many ways in which to engage students.