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  • Delightful Progress: Kuali's Legacy of Community and Leadership

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    CEO Joel Dehlin updates us on Kuali today, and how it has thrived as a software company that succeeds in the tech marketplace while maintaining the community values envisioned in higher education years ago.

  • Qualified Free Access to Advanced Compute Resources with NSF's Jetstream2 and ACCESS

    Free access to advanced computing and HPC resources for your researchers and education programs? Check out NSF's Jetstream2 and ACCESS.

  • Learning Engineering: New Profession or Transformational Process?

    Learning engineering combines theories from the learning sciences with problem-solving approaches from engineering, to create a process that can transform research results into learning action. Here, Ellen Wagner guides an exploration of this transformational process.

  • AI: Familiar Territory or Alien World?

    Sometimes we feel right at home with AI; sometimes it seems like an alien world. Here, Mark Frydenberg shares some practical advice to help educators find familiar ground as they guide their institutions through AI's disruptive technology changes.

  • Internet2's CLASS: Helping Researchers Move Forward with the Cloud

    CT asks Amanda Tan, the research engagement program manager for Internet2’s Cloud Learning & Skills Sessions program, how CLASS helps the research and education community learn to navigate the quickly changing cloud knowledge base.

  • Toward a Human-Centered Digital Ecosystem: NJIT

    The New Jersey Institute of Technology just published its 2030 strategic plan, outlining human-centered technology strategies that will build NJIT's unique values into its broader digital transformation.

  • A Fresh Look and a New Home: FLEXspace Joins with HETMA and Readies Its Portal Version 3.0

    FLEXspace, the Flexible Learning Environments eXchange will move under the management of HETMA, the Higher Education Technology Managers Alliance, so that both can benefit from synergies between the two nonprofit, community-based organizations. FLEXspace will continue as a free service and release its 3.0 portal version in early spring.

  • Creating Guidelines for the Use of Gen AI Across Campus

    The University of Kentucky has taken a transdisciplinary approach to developing guidelines and recommendations around generative AI, incorporating input from stakeholders across all areas of the institution. Here, the director of UK's Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching breaks down the structure and thinking behind that process.

  • Presence and Integrity in Online Learning

    At their best, synchronous online courses are shared experiences, and students are fully present to boost each other's learning. But in the virtual world it takes more than webcams to get us there. Here, Gardner Campbell explains his concept of integrity in online learning and how it can make your students true learning colleagues.

  • From Career Upskilling to Lifelong Learning: A Q&A with 2U's Anant Agarwal

    CT asks Anant Agarwal about lifelong learning and how edX connects individuals to education whatever their career or life stage.

  • It's Not Kansas Anymore: It's Cinematic Thinking

    Gardner Campbell explores "cinematic thinking" and the pathways that lead to it.

  • UTRGV and ORNL: Boosting Research While Building a STEM Talent Pipeline

    The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has signed an MOU with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to strengthen their research collaborations and establish a program for undergraduate research and education. Here, CT asks UTRGV Senior Vice President for Research Can (John) Saygin how the MOU will be carried out and what its impact may be.

  • 7 Questions with REN-ISAC's Anthony Newman

    We asked the Research and Education Networks Information Sharing and Analysis Center's recently appointed executive director about today's biggest cybersecurity challenges and his goals for REN-ISAC moving forward.

  • Thinking with Colleagues: AI in Education

    How will educators cope with the sometimes overwhelming progression of AI in higher education? Drawing from a recent meeting she and her colleagues organized, Ellen Wagner reminds us how brainstorming with colleagues can be one of the most powerful sense-making tools an educator has.

  • 7 Questions with Dr. Cristi Ford, VP of Academic Affairs at D2L

    In the Wild West of generative AI, educators and institutions are working out how best to use the technology for learning. How can institutions define AI guidelines that allow for experimentation while providing students with consistent guidance on appropriate use of AI tools? To find out, we spoke with Dr. Cristi Ford, vice president of academic affairs at D2L.