1+ hour, 29+ min ago  (362+ words) University educators have a duty to prepare students for an AI-enabled world. This can be challenging, given the plethora of tools available; the temptation to try every shiny new one is common, but doing so without careful consideration may raise…...

3+ day, 30+ min ago  (251+ words) Two big questions are swirling around higher education: how do institutions increase their relevance for students and society? And how will generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) impact learning? This critical time reveals the value of what universities have always been…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (745+ words) Today's careers rarely follow predictable paths. Artificial intelligence, automation and shifting organisational structures mean that professionals increasingly move between roles, sectors and technologies throughout their working lives. Education can no longer be confined to a single stage of life. Universities…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (373+ words) I have worked in and around the research sector for nearly 30years, starting at a time when the "leaky pipeline" of STEM research was just beginning to receive wider attention. Ihave been a mother for 20 of those years. To combine caring…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (548+ words) A student's attitude to artificial intelligence (AI) depends heavily on what subject they study, recent research has shown. The variation between these fields is wide enough that a single institutional framework cannot meaningfully address all three. What works is guidance…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (286+ words) The challenge is that AI literacy is unevenly distributed across institutions in ways that create compounding disadvantage. Departments with early adopters pull ahead; those without them fall further behind. The result is a capability asymmetry that widens each semester, shaping…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (253+ words) When we "shop" for information on the internet, similar tactics are at play. Nowadays, a standard query in Google frequently foregrounds a Gen AI-generated summary before listing traditional links. The Gen AI response is positioned as the first and most…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (593+ words) For much of higher education's modern history, assessment has followed a familiar formula: a midterm and a final exam, with a heavy emphasis on whether students can retain and reproduce information. That model made sense in a world where knowledge…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (268+ words) Never before have our students been so diluted within the aggregated voice of the machine, or their independent thought been so readily discarded. Our intrinsic, human capacity for learning is being subsumed by prediction, where personal articulation becomes statistical residue....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (323+ words) In my undergraduate music theory teaching, the most impactful uses of AI have to do with how I structure learning " and how accessible that structure is to the full range of students I encounter. For years, my discipline relied heavily…...