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Alex Usher on Canadian Higher Education

This is the World of Higher Education podcast. I’m Tiffany MacLennan, one of the producers of the World of Higher Education Podcast, usually a Research Associate at HESA, but currently a full-time master’s student. About two years ago, I pitched the idea of a podcast to Alex to which he said no but after a lot of consistent begging, here we are at season 2 episode 19. So far, I would say we’ve had great success with this project. We

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February 15, 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

Higher Education in France

If you study global higher education, one of the hardest habits to shake is that of assuming isomorphism. That building over there is a university? With departments and faculties? I went to a university with departments and faculties. I therefore know exactly what s going on in there. Except that is not really true, Universities in different countries often behave in quite different ways. There are, sometimes, serious outliers. And no country’s system is more of an outlier than that of France. France have, universities,

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February 8, 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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