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‘Metaversities’ Face Virtual Learning’s Financial Realities
Faculty and students are taking to learning in the metaverse, but universities wonder how they will pay for it once Meta’s two-year pilot program ends.
AI Has a Language Diversity Problem. Humans Do, Too.
AI writing tools sometimes “correct” students’ dialects. But fixing the tech’s shortcomings may be easier than addressing human language biases.
Phone-Free Experiences Offer Students a Digital Detox
In the age of AI, mobile internet and the metaverse, some classes and colleges are charting a simpler path, offering phone-free environments to help students destress and build community.
Building the AI Talent Pipeline
Industry partnerships, stackable credentials, two new centers, AI across the curriculum: Madeline Pumariega writes how one college is responding to the need for an AI-trained workforce.
Online Learning Still in High Demand at Community Colleges
Some colleges are still offering half or the majority of their classes online in response to student demand.
More Academics Take Flight From Twitter as Restrictions, Alternatives Grow
Elon Musk’s new limits on viewing tweets have more academics rethinking Twitter just as Meta’s new Twitter competitor debuts.
Harvard Taps AI to Help Teach Computer Science Course
Artificial intelligence powered by ChatGPT is helping Harvard’s beginner computer science students understand and improve their work creating and fixing code.
The ChatGPT Commencement Address
Wells College president Jonathan Gibralter is among the higher ed leaders who used ChatGPT to craft a graduation speech this year. But the administrative potential of such tools remains largely untapped.