Though he always expected artificial intelligence to make waves in his field of digital humanities, Johns Hopkins assistant research professor Tom Lippincott said he was caught off guard by how quickly it happened. Gearing up recently for a class teaching computational skills to humanists, Lippincott said, he was prepared to “go into my usual spiel” […]
Even though they are digital natives, students want to interact with instructors and administrators, be part of something outside their dorms and apartments, and feel like they have a place to go when they need help.
In a recent report by Bay View Analytics, 94% of community college students gave their online courses a passing grade, and 58% expressed a desire for more. However, a new study offers a reason for caution: for Black, Hispanic, and low-income community college students, online courses only increase degree attainment when taken in relatively low proportions. […]
The report surveyed over 5,000 students and almost 2,500 college instructors and found that 53% of students are having trouble retaining class material, 55% of undergraduates are struggling to stay interested in their classes, and 66% of instructors find it challenging to keep students engaged.
Increasingly it seems there is nothing that ChatGPT cannot do, even consulting judges in cases and boosting research. Now, the AI chatbot has been found to score at or around the approximately 60 percent passing threshold for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), “with responses that make coherent, internal sense and contain frequent insights.” This is according […]
Declining enrollment is one reason it's more important than ever for institutions to provide the ROI for why today's students should pursue a college degree.
Although institutions are faster to adopt technology today than ever before, the driving force of adoption in recent years was survival. As universities enter a fundamentally different era of competition, the future will belong to institutions that bring strategy and intentionality to digital transformation and use it to enable better student experiences and outcomes. In […]
Every higher education institution shapes the student experience by applying a storied history to its own unique traditions. But there’s one area where every institution must depart from tradition to prepare students for what happens after graduation and for a central factor in the working world—and that’s digital transformation. Digital transformation is a common buzzword […]
