Category: HESA’s AI Observatory

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (June 2nd, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  This coming week, HESA will be at the QS EduData Summit “AI and Digitally Empowered Education”, in Washington DC. If you are attending the event, come say hi! Next Roundtable Meeting Date: Thursday, June 20th, 2024Time: 12h00-1h30PM ET Online Book Club: “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI” by Ethan Mollick Although we officially completed our Winter 2024 series of AI Roundtables last week, we are coming back to you with a special summer event!  Inspired by

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (May 24th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  Today’s newsletter includes various articles about the impacts of AI on research and science.  Also, here’s your last chance to register to our AI Roundtable on decolonization, which will take place next Tuesday. See details below. Next Roundtable Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024Time: 12h00-1h00PM ET Join us next Tuesday, May 28th, from 12:00PM to 1:00PM ET, for our next AI Roundtable, which will focus on Decolonization. In this session, we will have the pleasure to

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (May 19th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  The highlight of today’s newsletter – we share a research paper that proposes an Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale to integrate GenAI in educational assessment. You’ll also learn about the new version of ChatGPT – GPT-4o. Read below! Next Roundtable Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024Time: 12h00-1h00PM ET Join us Tuesday, May 28th, from 12:00PM to 1:00PM ET, for our next AI Roundtable, which will focus on Decolonization. In this session, we will have the pleasure to

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (May 12th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  In today’s newsletter, you’ll find articles about US community colleges’ responses to AI, recommendations on where educators should focus their attention with respect to this technology, and reflections on the future of higher ed and critical thinking.  If you’ve missed our latest One Thought to Start Your Day blog on AI, you can read it here.  Finally, don’t miss out on the last AI Roundtable of our 2024 Winter series, focusing on Decolonization. See below for

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Are We Lacking AI-mbition?

If you’ve been following the latest developments on artificial intelligence (AI) in recent months, you’ve probably seen that higher education institutions all around the world are more and more aggressively starting to incorporate GenAI into their ways of doing. We’ve all seen Arizona State University announce its partnership with OpenAI at the beginning of 2024. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, on its end, has started to invite artificially generated ‘academics’ to teach to students in between lectures from real-life instructors, and

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