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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

ED Surge

We talked to: Michelle Cantu-Wilson, director of teaching and learning initiatives and special projects at San Jacinto College. Tyler Roeger, director of the center for the enhancement of teaching and learning at Elgin Community College. Wendy Schatzberg, director for the center of teaching and learning at Utah Tech University.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

ED Surge

He plans to focus on a new effort at Southern New Hampshire to explore how to reshape college teaching through the use of new generative AI tools like ChatGPT. Navy, and you would have adjunct faculty who would drive to the base and they get their pass and they go in and they teach classes. Will you release a white paper, or tools?

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‘Guided play’ benefits kids—but what does that look like for parents?

The Hechinger Report

It doesn’t require sitting down and teaching their child something. Maybe they add differently shaped blocks into their child’s blocks—that doesn’t require too much effort or too much work. But it’s guided play because parents are [supporting] their child’s learning by adding something. There seems to be a shift.

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Will the real Montessori please stand up?

The Hechinger Report

Many parents think a Montessori education encourages creativity and benefits children by providing unique teaching methods aimed at respecting young children and giving kids more control of their learning. Parents were intrigued by the schools, which seemed to offer an alternative to traditional public schools.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

ED Surge

By the end of the interview, Thiel asked him to help him teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy and technology, and he hired him as an analyst at his fund. And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. We talked philosophy,” Gibson remembers.

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MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era

ED Surge

They released a white paper yesterday called “Ideas For Designing An Affordable New Educational Institution,” where they lay out a framework for essentially a new class of university that would take advantage of various trends that have emerged in the past few years.

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