A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

Nussbaum: “The Humanities Are Alive And Well In Utah”

“I did not look forward to my visit to Utah Valley University in the fall of 2023… I had been invited to lecture to students in the philosophy course that is required of all undergraduates at this huge (more than 43,000 students), open-enrollment public university… How wrong, in retrospect, my reluctance was. In Orem, Utah, […]

On Competence, And How A.I. Changes How We Must Grade Writing

“Combating grade inflation, however difficult in practice, is actually the easier of the two existing problems ChatGPT has exacerbated. More difficult is coming to agreement on what exactly we are evaluating in student papers. It seems to me that every discipline will have to engage in their own process of discerning what they want from […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

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Peter Nilsson

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