Category: Institutions

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 29th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, Thanks to those of you who joined us for our AI Roundtable on Pedagogy and curriculum last Tuesday, and for sharing your knowledge and experience in the chat.  It was interesting to learn more about the possibilities of GenAI in developing teaching and learning materials. From drafting learning objectives and lesson plans to building rubrics and drafting quizzes, there are clearly a lot of ways GenAI could support instructors. However, many questions remain, notably with respect

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 22nd, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, If you’ve been reading our AI-focused emails in the past few weeks, you’ll know that we’ve been noting that higher education institutions are mainly focusing their policy efforts on developing guidelines about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in teaching and learning (T&L), while staying relatively silent on how to (or not) integrate AI in business operations. However, the lack of guidance doesn’t mean AI isn’t being increasingly used for operational purposes in institutions. We’ve already shared many

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Education at a Glance 2023

The OECD’s annual Education at a Glance (EAG) report came out last week.  It’s a One Thought tradition to go through this report in detail for the latest international comparisons on institutional income and participation rates, but I’m going to mostly forego that this year.  That’s partially because I have a doozy of a piece coming out on finance in a week or two, but also because this year’s EAG contains some interesting special topics worth looking at, particularly with

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Food: An Aristotelian Strategy

These days, everyone is wondering about how to create more of a feeling of community on campus.  This isn’t just about getting students comfortable within a campus community, which is key to improving completion rates and raising student satisfaction. In many places it’s also about finding ways to get through what a seemingly worsening set of relations between faculty members and administration, Boards and senates, etc.  So how to get more, shall we say, esprit de corps?  I say, read

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 15th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, In the planning of our series of AI Roundtable meetings, we at HESA towers are currently hoping to host a session on student perspectives during the month of November. We’d appreciate your help in connecting us with student leaders from your institutions that would be open to share their views on how AI is impacting higher education. We’re looking for diverse perspectives, including voices from graduate students. Let us know if you think of anyone by

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