Degrees vs. Alternatives? How Will Your Institution Fare?

This week’s SXSWEdu conference in Austin was notable for the relevant panels highlighting traditional versus alternative education. In fact, on the last day of the conference I overheard one traditional university president comment, “this is more about workforce development than it is higher ed.” Silently, I thought “and that’s why your enrollments are shrinking.” With […]

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Prompt Engineering Has a Different Meaning Than You May Think

In my recent post about AI Platforms, I mentioned that I learned about the term prompt engineering which refers to the structured queries designed to maximize the answers from an artificial intelligence tool. I thought I would improve my knowledge and usage of prompt engineering by querying ChatGPT. My queries and answers are written below. […]

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AI Platforms That May Be Useful for Your Job or Your Imagination

I attended a session this week at SXSWEdu titled “Automation, Imagination, & the New Way to Work.” Paula Intravaia and Holly Morey were the instructors. Paula is a course designer and instructor at the University of San Diego and co-founder and Managing Partner at Cloud Club Collective. Holly is a program manager in Universal Transitional […]

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More About the Third-Party Service Dear Colleague Letter

As more commentary surfaced about the recent Department of Education Dear Colleague letter about Third-Party Servicers, it was not surprising to read that the Department delayed the effective date of reporting under the expanded definition of a TPS to September 1, 2023. EdTech consultant and blogger Phil Hill posted another article that eviscerates the Department’s […]

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UC System Bans Online Degrees

I wasn’t surprised when I read about the University of California System implementing a regulation that requires a minimum time of physical residency in order to earn a degree. It doesn’t matter if there are enough online courses available for someone to meet degree requirements without attending classes on campus. The University of California Academic […]

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Is the Department of Education’s Latest “Dear Colleague” Letter Regulatory Overreach?

Access and affordability are two of the biggest issues in higher education. Other than in areas with no internet coverage, it can be argued that online courses and programs have expanded access to higher ed. While there are affordable online degree providers, I believe the expense of marketing online programs reduces opportunities for many colleges […]

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Who Will Dominate the Generative AI Search Market?

Before writing this article, I entered the search term “generative AI” into Google, my search engine of choice. Quickly, links to 77,200,000 articles were listed. The available access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT app has received much recent press and musings from the Twitter, LinkedIn, and blog communities (I’ve written four articles about ChatGPT since January). However, […]

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More about ChatGPT

Last week, I had one of those rare father-daughter moments when I took my 22-year-old daughters out to dinner. Our dinner discussions ranged from work to sports to concerts and maybe a few other topics. Somehow, the topic of ChatGPT surfaced. Both of my daughters graduated from college in 2022, before ChatGPT was widely known. […]

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Best Practices for Building Online College Courses

There are many books and research papers available with concepts and details for building online college courses. Rather than extracting a summary of best practices from any of those books, I queried ChatGPT. The essay below stems from its responses. Designing Online College Courses Start with clear learning objectives: Clearly define what students should be […]

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Subjects of Interest

Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

The Future of Work

Workforce