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9 mai 2019

How to prepare students for the rise of artificial intelligence in the workforce

The future impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on society and the labour force have been studied and reported extensively. In a recent book, AI Superpowers, Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China, wrote that 40 to 50 per cent of current jobs will be technically and economically viable with AI and automation over the next 15 years. More...

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9 mai 2019

Zombie Jesus and the Running Person

By Eboo Patel. Some thoughts on language, gender identity and religion.
It took me less than a nanosecond to get comfortable with gender fluid pronouns. Perhaps counterintuitively, there’s a religion story behind this. More...

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9 mai 2019

Should Woke People Watch Dave Chappelle?

By Eboo Patel. If diversity progressives believe that speech is violence, and that language that hypersexualizes women and stereotypes minority men as violent is pernicious, why are they (we) such avid consumers of cultural forms that unabashedly do both. More...

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9 mai 2019

What Do We Really Mean When We Say We Are Hiring For Identity

By Eboo Patel. The danger that hiring for identity poses to minorities.
After professor-provocateur Camille Paglia made some especially offensive comments, student activists at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia demanded that she be dismissed (or put on the academic equivalent of ‘administrative duty’) and replaced by a queer person of color. More...

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9 mai 2019

Knewton Is Gone. The Larger Threat Remains

By John Warner. The digital "snake oil" didn't sell. Will we ever see an end of personalized learning hype?
Knewton, once hailed as a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky,” is no more, having been sold for parts to publisher John Wiley & Sons. More...

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9 mai 2019

A Moving Read About the Adjunct Underclass

By John Warner. Normally the only contingent faculty career that could bring me to tears was my own, but the latter stages of The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission by Herb Childress had my eyes filling sometimes with sadness, sometimes tinged with anger. More...

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9 mai 2019

Leading from the Middle

Gen-Xers, that is those of us born between the years of 1961 and 1981 (Strauss, 2009), are now by many considered to be "mid-career." Spanning in age from approximately 38 - 58, the majority of us have changed jobs at least three times since completing our formal education. Most of us have had at least some leadership experience at this point in our lives. More...

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9 mai 2019

What Indian Elections Could Mean for Higher Ed

Lots in store for the Indian higher education in 2019. The higher education environment may appear normal on the surface, but many academics are worried. More...

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9 mai 2019

Breadth of Quality vs. Concentrations of Excellence

Most of the various “excellence schemes” adopted all over the world in the first years of this century have made precious little difference in terms of shaking up the global academic hierarchy. More...

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9 mai 2019

Responsive Teaching

By Joshua Kim. On building flexibility into your course preparation.
It’s been 10 semesters since I took over as the instructor of record in my first college class. During that time, I’ve made quite a few changes to my teaching, rethinking how I approach assessment and responses to student work, integrating “humanities lab” elements in my courses, and streamlining my grading. More...

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