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University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2019

Very few of them had any interest in interdisciplinary programs,” is how he remembers it. Formulating a product, you better know about ethics and understand legal frameworks.” These days a growing number of people are concerned with bringing more talk of ethics into technology.

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New Data Science Standards Are Needed for a Data-Filled World. Here’s What We Propose.

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Although data science is interdisciplinary, one possible home for data science standards is in mathematics standards, as there are important mathematical tools and methods that support data science. Much work still remains in preparing educators to teach data science, setting expectations for parents and securing the required resources.

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Meet The Newest Liberal Art: Coding

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware.

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VR’s Higher-Ed Adoption Starts With Student Creation

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The remaining MET curriculum features three semester-long interdisciplinary team projects. Beebe is currently working as the cinematic producer of an interdisciplinary project called. The best way to use virtual reality in education is to use it as a medium of creation.". We worked weekends, too.”.

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Stanford Calls for Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Ed

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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A Shift Toward Learning Design: What It Isn't, Why It's Needed, and If It's Right for You

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Challenging the assumptions about how we approach instructional design is one of the goals of a new graduate degree program at Georgetown University ; we hope to help students explore new ways of thinking about learning design, educational technology, and integrated and inclusive pedagogies in higher education.

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This Administrator Helped Shape Tech at Colleges For More Than 40 Years. Here’s His Outlook on What’s Next.

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Portland, Oregon —To get to Marty Ringle’s office at Reed College, you have to climb to the top floor of the Educational Technology Center building and get buzzed past a locked door that says “This is a Secure Area.” It felt like I was making a pilgrimage to the digital equivalent of a wise old master on the top of some mountain.

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How I Took the Dread Out of Grading—and Replaced It With Fun

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Perhaps I sensed a tremor from the other side of the educational spectrum—the workforce. The business community knows what they want in their employees: work ethic, the ability to communicate and function as a team, flexible thinking, etc. For a long time, “work ethic” and “agency” were simply other terms for “turned in on time.”

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How Intelligent Tutoring Systems Make Deep Learning Possible

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We have tested learning gains with AutoTutor in a variety of topics—computer literacy, physics, reading comprehension, research ethics, electronics. But now we’re in a knowledge revolution where the workforce needs to have a deeper set of skills and more interdisciplinary and collaborative problem solving. It’s a different world.

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Does Your Company Really Need AI? Stanford Executive Course Aims to Demystify the Hype

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APRIL 17, 2019

Executive education courses are typically offered through graduate business schools to provide non-credit training specifically to executives and managers. If used ethically, [AI] could revolutionize psychological assessment, marketing, recruitment, insurance, and many other industries,” the course description reads. “In

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How Project-Based Learning Helps Students Process Challenging Personal Experiences

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Currently pursuing a gap year program, Thomas is completing an internship on the topic of information ethics at The Millennium Project, a global participatory think tank, with a renewed sense of purpose: to “give everyone access to broad information and not be controlled [by it].” “I and part of the Big Picture Learning network.

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

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AUGUST 28, 2023

The summer before the first school year, she collaborated with other teachers to design interdisciplinary projects relevant to real-world situations. And what are the ethics of testing out new school models on students in real time? It was exciting. It was challenging. The intention is laudable.

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Celebrating 33 women and non-binary people in education

Teach Your Kids

MARCH 8, 2025

33 extraordinary women shaping our world Founders Mickey Revenaugh - Co-founder of Connections Academy, she helped pioneer virtual public schooling, expanding access to high-quality online education for K-12 students. And if you can’t give that, consider giving an hour of your time.

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$1-Billion Effort to Rethink Computer-Science Education at MIT Sparks Interest—and Protests

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But the effort has has also drawn protests by some students and professors, who are questioning how well ethics will be integrated into the effort and are criticizing the influence of a controversial donor. Those mixed feelings were on display this week as the university hosted a three-day celebration of its planned College of Computing.

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