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Learn IT, Work IT: Unlock Your Career Potential With Simulations vs. Sandbox Labs

Hands-on experience is essential across critical career fields. Without it, the risks are real — a med student could jeopardize a patient’s life. A programmer might create software filled with bugs. A...

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Fact From Fiction: Three Ways to Help Students Know the Difference and Stay Safe in the AI Age

AI has made a rapid foray into the higher education world in the past few years, evoking a spectrum of reactions among students and faculty that range from intense scrutiny to frenzied...

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Approaches to Learning Design at Cengage

As reviewed in Part I of this series on learning design at Cengage, there are four core principles that direct the pedagogical design of our programs to ensure we create quality projects...

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In the Blink of an AI: Shifting Assessments in a ChatGPT World

The world is entering a golden age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) underpinned by recent breakthroughs such as OpenAI models. ChatGPT could be the powerful impetus needed to shift from understanding assessment...

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3 Higher Ed Trends Helping to Engage Students

Emails, texts, social media, oh my ― distractions, distractions. According to a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 65% of students said they get distracted by digital devices,...

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Top 5 CNOWv2 Features and Tools

Based on our conversations with hundreds of Accounting instructors across the country, it’s clear that online learning needs have dramatically changed for both faculty and students. Students need an online learning...

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Teaching to the Job: 3 Ways to Empower Students as the Workforce Pivots

Workplaces are increasingly dropping degree requisites for many roles that historically were only available to college graduates. Delta, Dell, IBM, and Bank of America have all removed the college degree requirement for...

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Improving Support for Mac Users in Office 365

Melinda Doty is a full-time faculty member at East Carolina University. Sandy Keeter is a Professor in the Information Technology Department at Seminole State College in Florida. Over the years we...

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