Teaching in Lebanon - May Mikati's Blog

It seems that AI systems can tell both intentional and unintentional untruths – the latter now referred to by some as “hallucinations”. When...

An interesting article by Sydney Butler, a freelance computer expert, has just caught my attention. Entitled “How to Make ChatGPT Copy Your ...

Today I asked ChatGPT: Aren't you suspected of writing people's blogs for them? It did not deny it; this is the reply received: As a...

Today I am sharing a poem on the power of words: how they can haunt the writer or speaker indefinitely. Written by Canadian farmer and write...

As usual at the end of every year, it is enlightening to look back at the top-rated words worldwide, based on different sources. Interesting...

Has higher education become all carrot and no stick? Are we so tolerant of what some of our learners produce – or don’t produce – that dis...

  T hose of us who have so far been fortunate to escape Covid should be feeling blessed; some survivors have brain damage affecting thought,...

Whether to include blogging under a broad umbrella of journalism has been a matter of debate for a long time. While the difference between b...

The title of AUB’s latest international conference on effective teaching and learning was “Negotiating New Norms of Teaching and Learning in...

 The World Economic Forum recently published an article on “Universities After Covid”, by  Kyungmee Lee, a Senior Lecturer in Technology Enh...

Those who hadn’t heard of hybrid or blended teaching ended up hearing about them during the past year or two. While the two terms were often...

While the 2020 dictionary words of the year revolved around the problem of Covid-19, including pandemic , lockdown , superspreader , and qua...

 If you google teaching post Covid, you will probably find more articles dated 2020 than 2021. A year ago, teachers and administrators were ...

Unsurprisingly, the unusual circumstances of the pandemic have brought to light the need to appreciate the efforts of essential workers such...

Those of us who have kept our blogs going during the Covid-19 pandemic must be wondering how this pandemic has affected other bloggers. One ...

  What is a university? A set of buildings and grounds, or an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills, and share widely? Judging from my ...

Visitors to Lebanon tend to wonder why the country is in a chronic and growing mess despite the high level of education in the country – and...

  The term infodemic ( a blend of information and epidemic ) is not very new. However, it has become popular lately, with the spread of Co...

The term VLE (virtual learning environment) has been with us since at least the 1990s. Back then, academic institutions in the U.S. and the ...

  Unsurprisingly, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is pandemic , a word defining this era, as the dictionary editors put it. It earned t...

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Among the figures of speech used for responses to corona are the usual war ones often borrowed in medicine from the military, as in Trump’...

When news spreads like wildfire on social media, we say it has gone viral . How many of us had ever reflected on the origin of the adjec...

The dictionary words of the year 2018 included many that were environment related, whether as top scoring words or runners up. This past ye...

It is always good to blog out of the blue, spontaneously, even verging on “stream of consciousness”, letting your thoughts flow on the pa...

Inviting guest bloggers with similar interests can add diversity to one’s blog. Guest postings are useful for both the host and the g...