State leaders have a responsibility to use their data systems to help students seamlessly navigate transitions from high school into college, workforce training programs, the military, and apprenticeships. Many state leaders are meeting this responsibility by establishing initiatives to make enrolling in postsecondary education and workforce…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing and transforming industries around the globe. Through the exploration of various AI applications in teaching, research, and administrative tasks, this article illuminates both the potential and limitations of AI for enhancing faculty productivity while improving their effectiveness and innovation in…

The integration of generative AI tools in higher education presents both significant opportunities and challenges. This paper addresses two key questions: how AI should be incorporated into higher education and what ethical and pedagogical principles should guide its use. While AI enhances creativity, efficiency, and personalized learning, it also…

Amidst discussions about the use of Generative AI (GenAI) for academic research, their potential for doctoral research or literature reviews is an area beginning to be explored. This qualitative study explores doctoral students' perceptions of the value of GenAI tools in the literature review process. The analysis of 26 participants' reflections…

Background/purpose: This study explores the perceptions of Omani pre-service EFL teachers on promoting critical thinking through the ethical use of AI. The rationale of this study is to better understand the perceived strengths and training needs of pre-service teachers regarding the use of AI, which can improve future educational policy and…

The rapid integration of technology into various aspects of society, driven by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, has transformed the field of education. While technology is recognized as an essential component of teaching and learning, not all teachers embrace it with enthusiasm. Technophobia, or the fear of using technology, can hinder teachers…

AI has transformed education by reshaping teaching and learning processes. ChatGPT plays a significant role in enhancing these processes; however, effective educator training is essential for its optimal use. Educators and researchers are increasingly adopting AI chatbots, expecting them to improve learning experiences and reduce teacher workload.…

Consistent with their treatment of individual participants, educational researchers regularly use pseudonyms to reference their study sites. The rationales, strategies, and implications of masking places may differ from those for masking people. However, both practices are so pervasive as to have become unexamined defaults, and they are assumed as…

Through the lens of critical rural scholarship, this methodological paper offers reflections on the theoretical similarities between the qualitative research practice of place anonymization and the neoliberal project of place erasure. Using empirical data from a year-long ethnographic study of a remote rural community in Northern Wisconsin, I…

Resistance to simple narratives in education research comes from the stance that they render findings useless for the political work of understanding contexts of education as they exist today. This paper interrogates three stories of masking choices from a four year postcritical ethnographic study in the rural rustbelt Midwestern United States.…

Technology integration in higher education (HE) has brought immense innovation. While research is investigating the benefits of leveraging, through learning analytics, the data created by the greater presence of technology in HE, it is also analysing the privacy implications of vast universes of data now at the fingertips of HE administrators.…

Federal and institutional policy changes have accelerated the use of telemental health to care for college students distant from their mental health providers during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. Temporary measures have made telemental health more readily available, including relaxing of regulations related to interstate licensure,…

This article explores the mobile and material dimensions of a writing practice we call pocket writing. Emergent in our 6-year ethnographic fieldwork at a public high school, this practice involved adolescents composing and carrying their self-sponsored writing close to their bodies. We consider the pocket both a physical artifact--the place from…

Teachers are increasingly required to enact assessment policies in digitalised spaces, raising ethical issues of privacy and surveillance in the process. Yet, while "policy enactment" has been examined extensively, there remains research uncertainty around the ethical dimensions associated with assessment policy in digitalised settings.…

Eight years of data from Grand Valley State University Libraries show a positive correlation between in-class library instruction and student reenrollment the following fall semester. Using consistent statistical methods over time, controlling for confounding factors, and using a large population (N>16,000 annually) and strict protocols that…