The concept of artificial intelligence is hardly new, but the full range of opportunities that exist are just being discovered. In the higher education world, colleges and universities are starting to dabble with AI projects, such as chatbots or aids f…
A few years ago, if higher education institutions wanted to keep teaching and learning operations running with minimal disruptions, remote learning was the only option. Now, as students have returned to campus and business as usual, remnants of remote …
Esports has come a long way from its beginnings as a misunderstood, niche extracurricular activity bubbling up on college campuses in the early 21st century. Today, it’s not a question of whether a university should support esports on campus but a matt…
Remember the days when clicking on all the squares that contained a bicycle used to be proof enough that you were human online and not a bot? Well, the era of CAPTCHA is coming to an end as AI is learning to bypass what once used to be a reliable secur…
At the CBIE conference in Ottawa, educators discuss recent federal policy changes impacting international students. While these measures address concerns about exploitation, the essential contributions of international students to Canada’s economy and …
Self-sovereign identity is a new idea in the world of identity and access management, focusing on giving users more control over their digital identity. The promise of SSI is that it will shift the ownership of digital identity back into the hands of i…
As higher education institutions continue to discover the benefits of hosting data in the cloud, these environments are becoming increasingly complex. According to the 2024 CDW Cloud Computing Research Report, 88% of higher education institutions …
Higher education institutions are using mountains of data to address the many challenges they are facing in 2024 and beyond. In fact, the data-empowered institution is the No. 1 issue on the 2025 EDUCAUSE Top 10 list of technologies and trends in the i…
Some 12,000 colleges closed between 2004 and 2020, with at least 72 more folding since then. But what’s scarier than a school that has died? An undead college, of course — and it’s a lot more than a silly Halloween prank.
Zombie colleges are very real …