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Income-Driven Repayment Overhaul: The Backdoor Student Loan “Forgiveness” the Media Isn’t Talking About

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This week, the Heritage Foundation hosted a panel discussion about the Department of Education’s proposed income-driven repayment overhaul. Lindsey Burke, Director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, moderated the discussion. Panel participants included Preston Cooper, Senior Fellow in Higher Education at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity; Jason Delisle, Nonresident […]

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Tuition Discount Rates at Private Colleges and Universities Top 50 Percent (Again and Again)

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The headline of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) press release noting the findings of their most recent annual tuition discounting study was not as meaningful as the subtitle – “average private college and university tuition discount rates reached new highs this academic year”. The full report is unavailable unless your […]

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The Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023

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Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) issued its sixth annual AI Index Report subtitled Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence in April of 2023. Top takeaways from this year’s AI Index Report include: Industry races ahead of academia. Until 2014, most significant machine learning models were released by academia. In 2022, there were 32 […]

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The 3-Year Bachelor’s Degree – Are We Ready for Change?

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Josh Moody’s recent article in Inside Higher Ed about a dozen colleges working on a three-year bachelor’s degree may have surprised most people in higher education except for the teams from the 12 institutions selected by University of Pennsylvania Professor Emeritus Bob Zemsky and University of Minnesota Rochester Chancellor Lori Carrell. I attended the meeting […]

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Who Will Be the Academic Prompt Engineering Experts?

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As I mentioned in a post a month ago, prompt engineering is the term of art for prompting a generative AI tool like ChatGPT-4 to produce an answer to a question, analysis of a problem, or an essay about a particular topic. As part of my post, I prompted ChatGPT-4 for answers to questions about […]

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How Many of 39 Million Americans With Some College But No Degree Will Return to College?

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I wince whenever I listen to a speech or read about the opportunity to bring many of the 39 million former students back to college for a degree they did not complete. My wince is not because I doubt the veracity of the 39 million number. The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) issued a report in […]

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How Easy Is It/Will It Be to Use AI to Design a Course?

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Last week I received a text message from a friend to check out a March 29th Campus Technology article about French AI startup, Nolej. Nolej (pronounced “Knowledge”) has developed an OpenAI-based instructional content generator for educators called NolejAI. Access to NolejAI is through a browser. Users can upload video, audio, text documents, or a website […]

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A Few Random Updates About ChatGPT-4 and Other Generative AI Tools

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Over the past month, I’ve read the following articles about ChatGPT, language learning models, and generative AI in two magazines that I generally read for other reasons: Wired and The Economist. These may be interesting for educators and edtech leaders. Let the AI Coding Wars Begin! – sources maintain the using AI can make coders […]

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