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Data from more than 3 million online exams show that more than 6 percent of proctored exams contain evidence of attempted or actual cheating
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A growing number of community college students want online courses going forward, according to a new report from Bay View Analytics and Cengage. Across all current learning modes, 76% of community college students surveyed in spring 2022 want the option to take some courses fully online in the future, up from 68% who said the same in fall 2021.
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AI tools are available today that can write compelling university level essays. Taking an example of sample essay produced by the GPT-3 transformer, Mike Sharples discusses the implications of this technology for higher education and argues that they should be used to enhance pedagogy, rather than accelerating an ongoing arms race between increasingly sophisticated fraudsters and fraud detectors.
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Is education moving to a “tri-brid” model that flows between in-person, online and simulated environments?
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has been pushing for the country to be known as Türkiye.
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An NYU study tested whether the NewsGuard credibility rating extension steered people towards more high-quality news sources.
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The state of Maryland recently announced that it would no longer require a bachelor’s degree in the hiring process for nearly half of its jobs, joining a growing number of companies and other employers.
A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, explored Maryland’s decision to look beyond the four-year degree and the implications for higher education. Bridgette Gray, chief customer officer at the nonprofit group Opportunity@Work, which is helping Maryland identify nondegreed workers to fill jobs in technology, administration and customer service, describes the market conditions that prompted the state’s decision and why equity was a primary factor behind its move.
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Diving into a magnified human cell. Studying stars from the surface of the moon. Tossing a Frisbee on the quad with a classmate who lives 700 miles away.
These scenarios are far-fetched for most college students. Yet a new virtual reality experiment aims to make them possible. Ten higher education institutions across the U.S. have signed up to create digital versions of themselves that look 3D and feel immersive when accessed by students wearing VR headsets. Drawing on lingo that has gained popularity among tech entrepreneurs, these online simulations of colleges are being called “metaversities.”
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Anand emphasized that technology’s educational role is as “an enabler. Pedagogy is at the heart of what makes the magic in classrooms.” That said, faculty members suddenly learned a great deal about what actually works when their courses transitioned from the classroom to Zoom.
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We invest in AI, AR, VR and other technologies with the understanding, however, that their development will not solve the pressing issues facing our sector. On their own, new technologies will not drive down costs, increase access or advance the quality of learning.
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April 24, 2022 11:00 PM
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This archive list links to previous daily APOD pages from the current date through January 1, 2015. FULL ARCHIVE SINCE 1995 IS HERE Other interesting Astronomy sites: Hubble Heritage HubbleSite HubbleSite News Center Amazing Space Down to Earth Astronomy The Starburst Galaxies Science Initiative The Digitized Sky Survey The Guidestar Photometric Catalog The Starview software site The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) The Multimission Archive at STScI (MAST) Space Telescope Science Institute Library
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The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association: “Book challenges have been a hot topic in news and politics lately. The American Library Association (ALA) Executive Board and eight divisions recently released a statement affirming its opposition to widespread efforts to censor books in U.S. Schools. OIF has tracked 155 unique censorship incidents between June 1, 2021 and September 30, 2021. With the high volume of challenges right now, OIF has made available a clearinghouse of resources on its Fight Censorship page. The page is organized by different aspects of addressing censorship. First are resources for preparing and responding to challenges. This involves looping in ALA so that they can draw attention to the harms of censorship in addition to helping protect against challenges before they happen. For example, pertinent to recent censorship attempts there is a guide from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) on maintain LGBTQ+ materials in school libraries. There are also resources on the rights of schools and students/minors, in addition to general guidelines on how to respond to challenges and concerns about resources. This includes suggested responses to informal complaints and verbal concerns. One of the biggest factors in fighting censorship is one’s community. There are various resources on working with the public. These include how to respond to questions about youth and access to library resources, tips for addressing challenges during a public meeting, and working with community leaders. The number of people that belong to a said community is increasing, mainly due to social media’s ability to further connect people. Fortunately, there is a guide on using social media, which includes toolkits for creating live streams and advocating via social media….”
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Teacher who once championed phones in the classroom changes his stance
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Teachers can help pupils to think critically about the truth and reliability of claims in the media. Media literacy is considered a key competence in teaching pupils how to deal with media and information. It means both the competence to find correct information and to evaluate the nature of information critically.
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Most online learning platforms installed tracking technologies that trailed children outside of their virtual classrooms and across the internet, over time. Some invisibly tagged and fingerprinted children in ways that were impossible to avoid or get rid of—even if children, their parents, and teachers had been aware and had the desire and digital literacy to do so—without throwing the device away in the trash.
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Shortly after leaving high school as a student, I was bantering with some friends about our teachers and someone remarked about Stan, a gnarly old poetry teacher. The comment was that Stan had “really taught them how to think”.
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Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.
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The College Payoff: More Education Doesn’t Always Mean More Earnings explores how lifetime earnings vary by education level, field of study, occupation, industry, gender, race and ethnicity, and location. The lifetime earnings of a full-time full-year worker with a high school diploma are $1.6 million, while workers with an associate’s degree earn $2 million. However, at least one quarter of high school graduates earn more than an associate’s degree holder. Bachelor’s degree holders earn a median of $2.8 million during their career, 75% more than if they had only a high school diploma. Master’s degree holders earn a median of $3.2 million over their lifetimes, while doctoral degree holders earn $4 million and professional degree holders earn $4.7 million. However, one quarter of workers with a bachelor’s degree earn more than half of workers with a master’s or a doctoral degree.
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Essentially, sketchnoting is visual note-taking. It is turning notes from simple words on a page into something more visually appealing. Sketchnotes might include doodles, colors, and shapes, but really there is no hard and fast rule. It’s not about creating a piece of art. It’s about creating a piece of thinking. It’s about ideas.
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Teachers can help pupils to think critically about the truth and reliability of claims in the media. Media literacy is considered a key competence in teaching pupils how to deal with media and information. It means both the competence to find correct information and to evaluate the nature of information critically.
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A good portion of learners today are taking course content primarily online. In fact, in the United States, there are some states that mandate grade school students take some portion of their studies in an virtual environment. In other words, elearning is more than here to stay – it is practically required! Taking an online course is different than a classroom setting. Learners are often left to their own devices when it comes to learning retention. For courses that require successful passing of a final exam, it becomes even more critical that students find ways to solidify the course content.
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The OER Degree Initiative will create degree programs that utilize openly licensed learning materials, eliminating the purchase of expensive textbooks and saving community college students thousands of dollars.
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When the stakes are high, some students will find a way to cheat. Why not turn exams into learning opportunities by allowing students to use the textbook? It may be the first time they actually read and understand the material.
Better yet, consider project-based assessments where students are able to demonstrate what they know and can do. The more authentic the assessment, the more students will internalize the material.