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ED Surge
APRIL 13, 2022
His prophecy was based on the notion that digital alternatives to face-to-face education—in his view, much cheaper and friendlier than conventional instruction—would convince millions of college students to turn their backs on stodgy, old campuses to earn degrees in internet alternatives instead. will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years.”
ED Surge
JUNE 16, 2023
There’s a news story in higher ed that’s not getting enough attention. Under the new agreement , adjunct pay jumps from $6,200 for a four-credit course to $10,400, with increases scaled up over the next four years. Across higher ed, it wasn’t always this way. Online, the adjunct load is even greater.
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ED Surge
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. a far smaller number grant degrees online. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997.
National Science Foundation
MAY 16, 2023
We are both fortunate to engage with and hear from science teachers working in different settings. Educational researchers have been pointing to the potential shortages for many years (Ingersoll & Perda, 2010; Sutcher et al., They often share the joys of the profession, as well as the struggles they encounter.
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. I first met Ed in 1982—on an island in the Caribbean he had bought with money from taking public a tech company he’d founded. An elaborate description of a wild idea.
Stephen Wolfram
MAY 13, 2022
And it’s been interesting to go back into my archives (and, yes, those backup tapes from 30 years ago were hard to read!) I Think I Should Write a Quick Book… In the end it’s about five and a half pounds of paper , 1280 pages, 973 illustrations and 583,313 words. But its creation took more than a decade of my life.
Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 15, 2023
My goal here is to explore some of the science, technology—and philosophy—of what we can expect from AIs. Ultimately, it’s a computational system for generating text that’s been set up to follow the patterns defined by human-written text from billions of webpages, millions of books, etc. What will AIs be able to do?
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