Education

A new study co-authored by UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Julien Picault shows how scenes from hit shows like “Narcos” and “Stranger Things” can help students grasp complex economic concepts—from cartels and market control to creative destruction […]

Inserting brief quiz questions into an online lecture can boost learning and may reduce racial achievement gaps, even when students are tuning in remotely in a distracting environment.This post was originally published on this site

When summarizing scientific studies, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and DeepSeek produce inaccurate conclusions in up to 73% of cases, according to a study by Uwe Peters (Utrecht University) and Benjamin Chin-Yee (Western University, […]

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is trained on enormous bodies of text, video and images to identify patterns. It then creates new texts, videos and images on the basis of this pattern identification. Thanks to machine […]

Teachers are increasingly using educational tools that leverage large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT for lesson planning, personalized tutoring and more in K-12 classrooms around the world.This post was originally published on this site

In the 1954 essay “The Crisis in Education”, German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that crisis can act as an opportunity to revisit questions that have produced presumed and outdated answers.This post was originally published on […]

A new definition for bullying has been released to better support school pupils and teaching staff, particularly in special educational needs and disability (SEND) settings.This post was originally published on this site

As the nation’s colleges and universities respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “race-neutral” admissions mandates and the Trump administration’s efforts to cut funding to campuses with DEI programs, a UC Riverside education professor has offered […]

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists. This component, referred to as “broader […]

President Donald Trump on April 23, 2025, signed an executive order that aims to change the higher education accreditation process. It asks accrediting agencies to root out “discriminatory ideology” and roll back diversity, equity and […]