Category: Teaching & Learning

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

Spotlight Good morning all,  In today’s newsletter, you will find a couple of resources focusing on the integration of GenAI in graduate studies and research. We also share some articles that cover the use of GenAI in operations, as well as considerations for integrating GenAI into post-secondary institutions’ governance.  We hope these are useful reads! Policies & Guidelines Developed by Higher Education Institutions University of Alberta’s guidelines Tags: Guidelines, Research, Academic integrity, Canada University of Alberta’s Faculty of Graduate &

Spotlight Good morning all,  We are soon approaching the end of our Winter 2024 series of AI Roundtables. After the one taking place next Tuesday (make sure to register here if you haven’t already), we only have one last session planned, in May. For that last session, we hoped to be able to talk about the important topic of GenAI and decolonization – in other words, how can we make sure that the growing use of GenAI tools don’t hinder

Spotlight Good afternoon all, You might have seen the latest federal government announcement on AI. Too little information is available out there at the moment to be able to assess how this will impact the higher education sector. We will keep an eye out, and keep you posted!  In the meantime, in this week’s newsletter, you will find an example of institutional guidelines for operational use of GenAI, coming from McMaster University. We also share some articles on how universities

Spotlight Good afternoon all, In this week’s AI newsletter, you’ll find articles about the various ways specific institutions and jurisdictions are responding to GenAI in higher education – coming from Canada, the US, Hong Kong and Mauritania. You’ll also find articles about the constant tension between AI technology providers, and academic publishers and scholars. Finally, we included a couple of opinion pieces on what differentiates AI from human skills, and on where AI is headed in the not-so-distant future. We