Professional, Continuing, and Online Education Update by UPCEA

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Colleges are giving students ChatGPT. Is it safe? - Rebecca Ruiz and Chase DiBenedetto - Mashable

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This fall, hundreds of thousands of students will get free access to ChatGPT, thanks to a licensing agreement between their school or univer...

We’re introducing GDPval, a new evaluation that measures model performance on economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations. - OpenAI

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We found that today’s best frontier models are already approaching the quality of work produced by industry experts. To test this, we ran bl...

The AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education - Georgia Tech

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(AI-ALOE), led by Georgia Tech and funded by the National Science Foundation, is a multi-institutional research initiative advancing the use...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

How Micro-Credentials Are Shaping The Future Of AI-Driven Learners Forbes Technology Council - Venkatadri Marella, Forbes

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As AI is implemented in industries ranging from finance to healthcare to manufacturing, one thing is for sure: the future belongs to those w...

Operationalize AI Accountability: A Leadership Playbook - Kevin Werbach, Knowledge at Wharton

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Goal Deploy AI systems with confidence by ensuring they are fair, transparent, and accountable — minimizing risk and maximizing long-term va...

We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks. - AI Red Lines

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Some advanced AI systems have already exhibited deceptive and harmful behavior, and yet these systems are being given more autonomy to take ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

AI Hallucinations May Soon Be History - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed

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On Sept. 14, OpenAI researchers published a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper, “Why Language Models Hallucinate,” on arXiv. Gemini 2.5 Flash summa...

AI is changing how Harvard students learn: Professors balance technology with academic integrity - MSN

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AI has quickly become ubiquitous at Harvard. According to The Crimson’s 2025 Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey, nearly 80% of instructors ...

OpEd: Adapting Higher Ed To New AI World - Alfonzo Berumen, LA Business Journal

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Job prospects, even with a degree in hand, aren’t the only aspect of higher education being affected. GenAI has demonstrated the ability to ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

How To Spot A Truly Brilliant Leader —The Psychology Behind Their Edge - Jason Walker, Forbes

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We’ve all seen it. In boardrooms, startups, and corner offices, leaders who consistently elevate everyone around them. They’re not just skil...

Charting the GenAI Blue Ocean: A paradigm shift in business education - Bert Verhoeven, Dr Vishal Rana, Dr Timothy Hor - University of Oxford

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The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) signals not just technological progress but a seismic shift in how industries innovate, compete, and creat...

Making the Case for Technology To Drive Higher Ed Enrollment - Tony Digrazia, Ed Tech

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The past nine months have only worsened the issues higher education is facing, leaving university IT teams with fewer staffers working for l...
Monday, September 29, 2025

College Students’ Test Scores Soared After ChatGPT. Their Writing? Not So Much - Steve Fink, Study Finds

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Exam scores jumped nearly 22 points after ChatGPT’s launch, while writing project marks dropped by about 10. Passing students generally impr...

US faces shortfall of 5.3M college-educated workers by 2032 - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive

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Nursing, teaching and engineering would experience the largest gaps, per a study from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Wo...

Learning analytics-informed teaching strategies: enhancing interactive learning in STEM education - Ying Zheng &Dexian Li, Taylor and Francis Online

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Using a mixed-methods approach, data were collected from 1,483 students and 95 teachers through random and purposive sampling. The findings ...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students - University of Oxford

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The University of Oxford will become the first university in the UK to provide free ChatGPT Edu access to all staff and students, starting t...

Author Talks: The key to ideation? Start with the answer, not the problem - McKinsey

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What do you mean by ‘begin with the answer’? They don’t call it a “creative leap” for nothing. Nobody talks about a series of steps that lea...

Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models - OpenAI

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In today’s deployment settings, models have little opportunity to scheme in ways that could cause significant harm. The most common failures...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

Public views on being human in 2035 - Lee Rainy, Elon University

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This July 2025 survey by the Imagining the Digital Future Center found that American adults expect the changes in many human capacities in t...

Want to future-proof your campus? Start here - Kevin Sanders, University Business

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Higher education is at a crossroads. Our institutions are wrestling with enrollment cliffs, questions of relevance, technological disruption...

The infrastructure moment - Alastair Green, Ishaan Nangia, and Nicola Sandri - McKinsey

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A confluence of global forces is accelerating the need for infrastructure investment. Outdated assets, rapid urbanization, geopolitical shif...
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