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Europe/ Canada: Same/ Different

Good morning from the Brussels-to-Paris Eurostar, where I am hanging out with the good folks of the University Vice-Presidents’ Network on our study trip to Belgium and France. We’ve had some excellent meetings, including a really fascinating visit to KU Leuven (one seriously well-run university), and a chance to catch up with some old friends at the European Universities Association. And I just wanted to pass along some of the similarities and differences I am seeing between Europe and Canada right

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May 1, 2024 1 Comment

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (April 19th, 2024)

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

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April 20, 2024 No Comments

EdTech with Phil Hill

In many ways, the biggest stories of the last twenty years in global higher education have been stories about technology. Massive Open Online Courses — also known as MOOCs, the rise and spectacular fall of private on-line higher education, the rise (in the United States at least) of major public-sector online universities, and the rise and controversy over so-called Online Program Management providers — or OPMs. And of course, the great global experiment in remote learning that was COVID. These

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April 18, 2024 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (April 12th, 2024)

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

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April 12, 2024 No Comments

Private Higher Education in India

When we talk about private higher education, our minds obviously rush immediately to the United States, where a mix of world class universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton coexist with a range of low quality for-profits. And almost everything in between. Sometimes we think of places like Korea or Japan — much more heavily regulated, but like the U.S. possessing some very high-quality private institutions. Or like Chile or Brazil, where large numbers of low to middle in quality privates

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April 11, 2024 1 Comment
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