You might think that, just because you don’t use Google Chrome or the search engine itself, you steer clear of Google tracking. You’d be wrong.
How learning analytics can finally deliver on its promise
James Hodgkin, Jisc’s head of learning analytics, believes understanding data is more than a dashboard: it can improve data governance across higher education.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/how-learning-analytics-can-finally-deliver-on-its-promise-24-feb-2023…
Ludopedagogy: Design and Learning
Join the Eductive team on March 16th in this bilingual laboratory on ludopedagogy, divided into 3 steps in which, together, we will reflect on the requirements to successfully integrate games into the classroom, as well as their prototyping and their …
ChatGPT and cheating: 5 ways to change how students are graded
While many worry these advanced AI technologies are ushering in a new age of plagiarism and cheating, these technologies also introduce opportunities for educators to rethink assessment practices and engage students in deeper and more meaningful learning that can promote …
Online learning platforms aren’t enough – lecturers need the right technical skills
Universities must do more than just offer online learning: they must make sure lecturers know how to adapt to the technology.
Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design
Rubrics are valuable assessment tools that provide clear and transparent expectations about what constitutes quality work. Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers …
ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence on the Doorstep of College Institutions
How will ChatGPT impact education? Knowing that we cannot completely ban access to ChatGPT, we need to find ways to integrate it into our teaching practices. There is a lot to be said about this topic, but here is some …
Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing
AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient.
https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test…
Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements next month
Microsoft has rebuilt Teams from the ground up to improve its performance on PCs and laptops.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/20/23607037/microsoft-teams-performance-improvements-less-cpu-memory…
6 Chrome Extensions That Let You Listen to the Radio as You Browse
If you want to tune in to the radio while you search the web, you can do so straight from your browser. Here are six Chrome extensions to use.
Turnitin Integrating AI Writing Detector into Its Products
Plagiarism detection company Turnitin announced that the AI writing detection tool it teased in January will be available as a feature of its existing products as soon as April. According to the company, the tool detects ChatGPT- and GPT 3.0-written …
Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research
Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. A group of professors …
Take your privacy back: How to remove your personal data from people search sites
Removing your personal information from people search sites is getting harder but can be done.
ChatGPT creator Sam Altman says the world may not be ‘that far away from potentially scary’ AI and feels ‘regulation will be critical’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI regulation will be critical as the nascent industry forges ahead.
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-world-not-far-potentially-scary-ai-2023-2
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The 10 Best Harvard Courses You Can Take Online for Free
Harvard is one of the most prestigious schools, but did you know it offers some online courses you can take for free? Here are ten of the best.
https://www.makeuseof.com/best-free-harvard-courses-online/…