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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Feb. 16th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  In today’s newsletter, we share articles covering a broad range of topics – from taking a whole institution approach to GenAI, to using GenAI in research. Some also cover how GenAI might impact assessments and feedback, and particular considerations related to using GenAI in creative work and work-based learning. Also, ICYMI – HESA recently launched its AI Advisory Services. If your institution is struggling to develop its response to this new technology, or is simply in search

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February 16, 2024 No Comments

Ball State vs. Stanford

When higher education wants to talk about itself in positive terms, the story it likes to tell is a story like the one of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. You can read about Stanford’s history in books like Annalee Saxenian’s Regional Advantage and to a lesser extent Rebecca Lowen’s Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford. The story goes something like this: “we do lots of great scientific work here, and businesses interested in our Intellectual Property

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February 14, 2024 2 Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Feb. 9th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,    In today’s newsletter, we share multiple resources and articles focusing on GenAI in research. If this topic is of interest to you, make sure to attend our upcoming AI Roundtable on research integrity (see below for more details).    Also, ICYMI – HESA recently launched its AI Advisory Services. If your institution is struggling to develop its response to this new technology, or is simply in search of an extra hand, we might be able to help. Reach

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February 9, 2024 No Comments

The New Model University

You may have heard once or twice about Arizona State University and how innovative it is. You probably don’t know the half of it. Today I am going to rectify that because it may be the institution from which Canadian universities need to learn the most over the next few years. A lot of the initial attention to what ASU was doing differently focused on the way that faculties got rearranged in the early 2000s. The university still runs traditional

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February 7, 2024 5 Comments

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

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  Last Tuesday, we officially kicked off our 2024 series of AI Roundtables. If you missed it, make sure to catch the recording of the first session here. At the end of the session, we mentioned that we are planning a “community poster” session for our Pedagogy and Curriculum roundtable in April. During this “community poster” session, we’ll welcome faculty members, instructional designers, and others who want to share, in a short 8- or 10-min presentation (1

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February 2, 2024 No Comments

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