There is increasing talk about microcredentials in higher education. Earlier this week, the federal government announced the first group of courses it is supporting in a microcredential pilot program. Microcredentials have been around in vocational circles for several years but are starting to be offered more widely by universities. The Universities Accord review panel has noted “microcredentials are […] … learn more→

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many different industries in recent years. It gained a lot of attention and popularity with the launch of ChatGPT, a tool capable of writing poems, solving equations and producing articles on different topics. With the fast-paced implementation of AI in different fields, will it take the place of architects and architecture schools […] … learn more→

Every year thousands of students around Australia sit their final high school exams. The performance in these exams will help determine their Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). For many, it will also determine whether they can attend university, which university, and which undergraduate degree they can enrol in. The Universities Accord review team has called for […] … learn more→

Today, everyone talks to machines all day long: from Dragon to Alexa, Siri and voice dictation from your phone, human-machine interaction is more than ever at the heart of our daily lives. . However, this interaction is modulated by many parameters, including how much the machine physically resembles a human. But understanding how we interact with […] … learn more→

SEO courses, which are referred to as search engine optimization courses in full, are educational programs or training sessions designed to teach individuals or businesses about the principles and techniques of optimizing websites for search engines. SEO is the practice of improving a website’s visibility and ranking on search engine results pages to drive organic […] … learn more→

Whenever I tell high school students in classes I visit that I appreciated learning about slavery as a child growing up in the Caribbean, they often look confused. Why, they ask, did I like learning about slavery given that it was so horrible and harsh? How could I value being taught about something that caused […] … learn more→

The academic performance of primary school students is a topic of interest and concern for researchers, teachers and families alike. This stage can have a significant impact on the development of students, and can influence their educational trajectory in the long term. For this reason, it is essential to understand the variables that influence academic performance. Academic […] … learn more→

In 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition. The artist, Jason Allen, had used Midjourney – a generative AI system trained on art scraped from the internet – to create the piece. The process was far from fully automated: Allen went through some 900 iterations over 80 hours to create and […] … learn more→

We live in a society with an excessive tendency to diagnosis and psychological labeling . Putting labels facilitates communication between professionals, but it also entails a series of inconveniences for the person and the social context in which they operate. If we talk about children and adolescents, this situation is complicated, since they depend on the adults and […] … learn more→

The discovery and rescue of four young Indigenous children, 40 days after the aircraft they were travelling in crashed in the remote Colombian rainforest, was hailed in the international press as a “miracle in the jungle”. But as an anthropologist who has spent more than a year living among the Andoque people in the region, conducting ethnographic […] … learn more→