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Want To Find Highly-Engaged Students at 4-Year Colleges? Look At Transfer Students.
When students transfer from community colleges to four-year universities, there’s often culture shock. But those transfers are often more motivated a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Should Students Chat With AI Versions of Historical Figures?
A new documentary project about Sacagawea, the young woman from the Shoshone tribe who helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition back in 1804, lets…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Effects of Smartwatches on Kids, Schools and Families
Should kids wear smartwatches? Companies market the wearable devices to kids as young as 4 years old, while digital media experts and educators worry…
1 year, 6 months ago
What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?
ChatGPT and other chatbots are modeled after how the human brain works. And one of the pioneers of the technology, Terrence Sejnowski, says that what…
1 year, 7 months ago
How Are School Smartphone Bans Going?
Many school districts and states have enacted new restrictions on smartphones in classrooms during instructional time, in the name of increasing stud…
1 year, 7 months ago
How the Job Market Has Changed for College Grads
College grads are facing a tough job market these days, with experts saying the college degree holds less of a premium in getting hired than in the p…
1 year, 7 months ago
Looking Back on the Long, Bumpy Rise of Online College Courses
When the web was new back in the late 1990s, Robert Ubell was among those pushing for its adoption to help students who couldn’t get to a campus — ov…
1 year, 7 months ago
Inside an Effort to Build an AI Assistant for Designing Course Materials
Over the past few months, a group of educators has been designing and testing a system that uses ChatGPT to serve as an assistant to instructors as t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Rebooting Internet Access Programs to Address the ‘Homework Gap’
As pandemic relief funds run out — which helped many students connect to the internet to keep up with their studies — there’s a danger that the “hom…
1 year, 8 months ago
How Rising Higher Ed Costs Change Student Choices. (Doubting College, Ep. 6)
The high cost of college is changing how high schoolers think about whether or not to go. A new book, “Rethinking College,” argues for changing the n…
1 year, 8 months ago