Demonstrative training videos are an excellent way to teach new skills that can be hard to learn from written instructions alone.

The Higher Education Generative AI Readiness Assessment is designed to provide a sense of your institution’s preparedness for strategic AI initiatives

From the future of higher education to regulating artificial intelligence/AI, Reid Hoffman and Nicholas Dirks had a robust discussion during this Academy event.

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force

Empirical Nursing: The Art of Evidence-Based Care, (PDF) aims to provide students and practicing nurses with the tools to better understand and engage in scientific arguments to back quality nursing and evidence-based practice.

Empathy is beneficial for nurses and patients alike, but nurses who experience repeated, prolonged exposure to patients' trauma and suffering can develop empathy exhaustion (also known as empathy fatigue or compassion fatigue), which can have serious effects on the nurses' mental, emotional, and physical health.

Empathy is a core component of nursing practice.  In nursing, empathy is commonly defined as recognizing, understanding, and feeling from the patient’s perspective, and experiencing emotions such as care, concern, or distress as a result of being exposed to a patient’s situation. 

Integrating ChatGPT into your eLearning environment transforms traditional learning experiences into engaging and interactive journeys.

Psychological science continues to reveal benefits from social media use, as well as risks and opportunities that certain content, features, and functions present to young social media users

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AI tools can serve as a meaningful asset to both instructors and learners in higher education, but general guidelines, broad accessibility and workforce applicability must be kept at the forefront.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing and evolving field. In recent years, we’ve seen generative AI models such as ChatGPT and Midjourney develop from being the stuff of science fiction to becoming tools that everyone, from office workers to college students, uses as a part of their day-to-day work.

In what is believed to be the first published study of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, a research team co-led by the Yale School of Public Health found a widely used vaccine is highly successful in preventing infections. Residents of such facilities, particularly those in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), have experienced disproportionately high levels of COVID-19–related death and illness since the pandemic first arrived in the United States nearly a year ago.  Despite this, this group was not included in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials and there is limited post-shot vaccine effectiveness data available for members of this population who are typically older, more frail, and have more underlying medical conditions than the general population. For the study, researchers were able to capitalize on the rapid vaccine rollout in Connecticut's nursing homes facilitated by the state Department of Public Health. Specifically, they examined the "real-world" effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine among 463 residents in two nursing homes in Connecticut that were experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks. They found that the vaccine had an estimated effectiveness of 63% against SARS-CoV-2 infection among facility residents after the first dose. This is similar to estimated effectiveness for a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine in adults across a range of age groups in non-congregate settings and strongly suggests that a complete two-dose vaccination offers significant protection for medically frail and older adult residents of SNFs.

"This confirms what we had all hoped: This vaccine is highly effective in perhaps the most at-risk group and can potentially save many lives," said Sunil Parikh, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health and the study's senior author. "Vaccines work in this highly vulnerable population and their implementation should not be delayed." The findings were published March 15 as an "early release" in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The study was a joint collaboration with state and federal partners—the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the CDC—and involved two Ph.D. students at YSPH, Jillian Armstrong and Hanna Ehrlich. "This is a great demonstration of the power of collaboration between applied public health at the local and federal levels and academic public health entities," said Parikh. Since the early days of the pandemic, Connecticut has partnered with Parikh and others at the Yale School of Public Health to conduct enhanced surveillance in all Connecticut nursing homes. This surveillance system enabled the rapid detection of outbreaks.

Research published in  MMWR (March 15, 2021):

http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7011e2 

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination has resulted in excellent protection against fatal disease, including in older adults. However, risk factors for post-vaccination fatal COVID-19 are largely unknown. We comprehensively studied three large nursing home outbreaks (20–35% fatal cases among residents) by combining severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) aerosol monitoring, whole-genome phylogenetic analysis and immunovirological profiling of nasal mucosa by digital nCounter transcriptomics. Phylogenetic investigations indicated that each outbreak stemmed from a single introduction event, although with different variants (Delta, Gamma and Mu). SARS-CoV-2 was detected in aerosol samples up to 52 d after the initial infection.

Combining demographic, immune and viral parameters, the best predictive models for mortality comprised IFNB1 or age, viral ORF7a and ACE2 receptor transcripts. Comparison with published pre-vaccine fatal COVID-19 transcriptomic and genomic signatures uncovered a unique IRF3 low/IRF7 high immune signature in post-vaccine fatal COVID-19 outbreaks. A multi-layered strategy, including environmental sampling, immunomonitoring and early antiviral therapy, should be considered to prevent post-vaccination COVID-19 mortality in nursing homes. Although vaccination drops COVID-19 mortality in older adults, post-vaccine fatal COVID-19 in nursing home outbreaks was linked to Delta, Gamma and Mu variants, persistently detected in aerosols. Mortality was predicted by IFNB1 or age, ORF7a and ACE2 mRNAs.

Published May 22, 2023: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00421-1

AI chatbots show promise in college students but are less effective for K12 and the impact of AI chatbots on learning seems to decrease over time.

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The demographics of AI developers often differ from those of users. For instance, a considerable number of prominent AI companies and the datasets utilized for model training originate from Western nations, thereby reflecting Western perspectives.

This post is written by Becky Keene, an educator, author, and speaker. Becky has been advocating for modern pedagogies in public education around the

Date & Time: Thursday, May 16th at 4 pm ET The landscape of educational technology has transformed dramatically in the last year, exploding with the rise of AI tools for teachers. From streamlining student feedback to creating interactive content tools, AI-powered platforms have become essential for educators. As classrooms increasingly integrate digital tools, understanding these AI tools is crucial for teachers.