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The Floating University

Last week I promised you we’d have Isak Froumin on to talk about post-Soviet higher education, but for technical reasons we’ve had to delay that broadcast until next week. Instead, today, we’re going to be taking a trip down memory lane – to 1926, and a rather remarkable educational experiment that originated at New York University. It was called – the Floating University. It was the brainchild of NYU’s James E. Lough—a professor and educational reformer with an entrepreneurial spirit.

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November 23, 2023 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Nov. 17th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, Today, we share a series of recommendations on how institutions should respond to AI, and missteps they should avoid. You will also find a publication by editors sharing recommendations on the responsible use of GenAI in scholarly journal publishing. We hope these resources are helpful! Consult our AI Observatory Next Roundtable Meeting Date: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 Time: 12h00-1h00PM ET Join us next Tuesday, on November 21st, from 12:00PM to 1:00PM ET, for our next AI

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November 17, 2023 No Comments

Chile: A Decade of Gratuidad

Hi. I’m Alex Usher and the is the World of Higher Education podcast. One of the biggest events of the last two decades in global higher education was the wave of student protests that hit Chile in 2011 and lasted for well over a year. They were not the most coherent of protests: the range of issues being discussed included financing of higher education, its quality, its governance, its admissions systems: and of course mass protests inevitably brought out others with unrelated

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November 16, 2023 No Comments

Reconstruction?

Something on a lot of people’s minds in higher education– at least, among the more internationally-minded types – is how higher education institutions in North America and Europe can contribute to the rebuilding of Ukrainian higher education.  North American responses to the Ukraine crisis have mostly about sheltering individuals and – in the short-term – providing access to higher education at concessionary rates.  But over in Europe, more attention is being paid to helping institutions survive and rebuild.  The European

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November 13, 2023 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Nov. 10th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, In today’s newsletter, you can read about the UK Department of Education’s policy paper on GenAI in education; reflect on how GenAI tools can be used as assistive technologies to help students with disabilities; consult the results of surveys assessing both institutional leaders’ and students’ perspectives on GenAI tools; and discover new ways in which GenAI tools can be used by students, instructors and institutions to improve outcomes. Consult our AI Observatory Next Roundtable Meeting Date:

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November 10, 2023 No Comments

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