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Higher Ed Has Become ‘An Entrepreneurial and Philanthropic Wild West’

Edsurge

That is both an organizational and an ethical frontier. And what I and several others across the country have been trying to do is to have an ethical conversation that gets out in front of that domain so that when an inevitable data catastrophe happens, we won’t start the ethical conversation from zero. It was my classroom.

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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

Edsurge

College of the Canyons’ history with OER starts before Anagnonson’s dabble, however. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. The campus is home to several longtime advocates of open and free learning materials.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large.

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Using Case Studies to Develop Questioning Skills

Faculty Focus

What ethical issues does this situation present? What histories are important to consider when evaluating this case? If you were advising the individual in this case, what would you tell them? Would some sort of compromise be possible or useful in this case? What are alternative solutions? Where else may we see a similar situation?

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large.

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Using Case Studies to Develop Questioning Skills

Faculty Focus

What ethical issues does this situation present? What histories are important to consider when evaluating this case? If you were advising the individual in this case, what would you tell them? Would some sort of compromise be possible or useful in this case? What are alternative solutions? Where else may we see a similar situation?

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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

Dangerously Irrelevant

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Perfectly preparing a generation for its own history. In that January 2014 blog post I said that. Retention is not a policy unknown.