Category: Teaching & Learning

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (October 4, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  About a month ago, the U15 released its guidance on the use of AI in academic teaching and learning (finally, dare I say): Navigating AI in Teaching and Learning: Values, Principles and Leading Practices. While nothing in there is truly groundbreaking – which might make one (me, for starters) wonder why it took them so long, two elements caught my eye.  1) The U15 emphasizes the importance of Building trust, saying “As we learn and gain

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (September 6, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  Sandrine Desforges here. I am a Research Associate at HESA and have been leading the work on our AI Observatory since its inception. I’ve had the pleasure of popping into your inbox every Friday or so during the past academic year to share ‘AI in Higher Ed’-related news, as well as hosting our monthly AI Roundtables (if you’re new here, you can catch all the recordings online). After a productive summer break (we have some exciting

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A Research Agenda for Canadian Higher Education, Part 2

Just a note that I am at the CAUBO Conference in Montreal today…if you are attending, do drop by my session today after lunch and say “hi.” Yesterday I sketched out a possible research agenda for Canadian higher education. Today, I am going to sketch out how we can best achieve this. What needs to be done at the National level The most important thing we could do is replace the Youth In Transition Survey. This was a longitudinal survey which followed

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A Research Agenda for Canadian Higher Education, Part 1

There is so much about Canadian higher education that we don’t know. Today, a list of the most important unknowns that I think are most important, organized by broad topic. Who Gets Into Post-Secondary Education: Also, Where and Why and For How Long? Our data on who gets into post-secondary education has got a little bit better in the last little while. For instance, check out this interesting piece by Tomasz Handler, Aneta Bonikowska and Marc Frenette which looks at Bachelor’s degree

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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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