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AI in Canadian Higher Education-An Update

Good morning. As you probably know, we at HESA have been paying a lot of attention to Generative AI over the past few months.  We launched our AI Observatory during the Summer, have been organizing monthly AI Roundtables with the help of a super group of volunteers from across Canada, and began putting out our Friday AI-focused emails. Today, as we approach the first anniversary of the release of ChatGPT, we wanted to share some observations about the state of play in GenAI

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October 18, 2023 No Comments

That Big Quebec Policy Announcement

Many of you will have seen the stories on Friday concerning a set of policy changes aimed at reducing the number of non-permanent anglophone residents studying in Quebec (see La Presse, The Gazette).  The initial stories were not quite accurate in the sense that what the Government of Quebec announced in this stunningly unhelpful media release did not overtly single out anglophone institutions: they just in practice impact anglophone universities far more than francophone ones.  And what was announced on

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October 16, 2023 9 Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Oct. 13th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon, It has now been 2 months since we launched our AI Observatory and started sending these AI-focused emails. Thanks for tagging along! We’d appreciate if you could take a couple of minutes to fill this short anonymous survey. We’d love to hear from you to gauge if it’s been helpful, and how we could better support your institution moving forward. Thank you! Fill the short survey Next Roundtable Meeting Date: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 Time: 12h00-1h00 PM

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October 13, 2023 No Comments

Canada’s Internationalization Strategy

A couple of months ago, I was invited to participate in a Global Affairs Canada (GAC) stakeholder roundtable on its Strategic Plan for the next five years.  It was very kind of them to invite me and a few others to be part of the consultation.  It was an interesting window into how the federal government thinks about policy and – especially – strategy. It seems to me that GAC is in the education business for three reasons. But instead

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October 11, 2023 2 Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Oct. 6th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, It’s great to see the 1,4k of you that opted-in to receive these AI-focused emails. If you know someone who’d like to receive them, please send them this link. We love to see the numbers growing. Quick update – We recently added a sub-section ‘Recommendations’ under ‘News & Research’ on our AI Observatory, where we gather recommendations on how to respond to GenAI from various types of organizations, including governments, coalitions of higher education institutions, interest-based

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October 6, 2023 No Comments

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