The Dickinsonian

Modernizing the digital blackboard: faculty and students adapt to Brightspace

This year, Dickinson College delivered on the promise of a new comprehensive technology transformation aimed at updating campus systems and improving efficiency, with three main projects: the Learning ...
Entrepreneur

Here’s How People Are Actually Using ChatGPT, According to OpenAI

OpenAI released a new study about how people are using ChatGPT, based on more than one million messages sent to the chatbot. OpenAI researchers released a report on ChatGPT use on Monday, the largest ...
MIT Technology Review

Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.

Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process. Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been ...
Idaho State Bengal

Farewell Moodle: ISU Officially Rolls out Canvas Following State Board’s Push

A skyview of Idaho State University campus. Photo courtesy of ISU Marketing and Communications Department . After approximately three years of debate, Idaho State University officially rolled out ...
Wall Street Journal

What Are Passkeys—and What Do You Need to Know About Using Them?

For those who hate repeatedly entering usernames and passwords, some of the biggest online companies are pushing an alternative: passkeys. Passkeys work by using a pair of unique mathematical values—a ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

How Are Students Really Using AI?

After two and a half years we have enough data to form a clearer picture about who is using AI, what they are using it for, what they think about it, and what it means for learning. What do students ...
GitHub

Replace deprecated get_all_user_name_fields with \core_user\fields::get_name_fields in Moodle 4.5.x

We are using Moodle version 4.5.4+ (Build: 20250502) with plugin version 2024051300, and we’ve noticed that the plugin uses the deprecated function get_all_user_name_fields() in multiple places. As of ...
TechCrunch

X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content

Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform’s content to train large language models. In an update on Wednesday, the company added a line ...
The New York Times

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs. By Kashmir Hill In February, ...
Teen Vogue

How Are Students Using ChatGPT? For Therapy, Breakups, and Even Texting Friends

ChatGPT has earned a reputation as an educational cheating device that students lean on to revise or entirely write assignments and essays, answer questions on tests, solve math problems — all to ...
Frontiers

Higher-order thinking skills in e-learning contexts in higher education: a phenomenological study

Teaching and learning activities are primarily conducted through in-person classes and assessed by periodic examinations, with little emphasis on developing higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) in ...
GitHub

Javascript Errors after upgrading to Moodle 5

We have a moodle site running 4.4.6 that we upgraded to Moodle 5 and experienced these errors on when creating an activity (e.g. Interactive Video > Details > Use) ...