Expert Insights: Vodcasts and Essays
Welcome to Academic Advance Hub’s section comprising expert insights. Dive into a curated collection of Thought Leadership Vodcasts and Insightful Essays, academia’s luminaries and thought leaders.
Vodcasts: Visual Perspectives
Experience the power of expert opinions in motion. Our Thought Leadership Vodcasts provide a dynamic exploration of cutting-edge ideas, trends, and innovations related to knowledge management and practices in academia and research. .
Essays: Deep Dives into Expertise
For those who prefer the written word, our Insightful Essays offer a profound journey into academia and research experts’ minds. Uncover the depth of analysis, explore thought-provoking perspectives, and stay ahead of the curve with our experts’ written contributions.
Is the Rise of AI Felt in Daily Life?
Is the rise of AI felt in daily life, or is AI gradually taking on a more significant role in our lives? The prospect is intriguing and filled with potential. For a clear understanding, we need to examine a few essential aspects. The emergence of ChatGPT in November 2022 democratized the use of generative AI, […]
The Lure and Allure of Using AI Tools in the Romanian Higher Education
The present contribution is an extended abstract of the chapter with the same title, signed by Dr. Andreea Mitan in the book edited by Alexandra Zbuchea, Florina Pinzaru, and Cristian Vidu – Changing the Game. AI and Education. AI is a game changer. Since ChatGPT, one of the more famous Generative AI tools, became available to […]
ChatGPT AI plagiarism detection
Created by OpenAI and released to the public in November 2022 (Zhai, 2022), ChatGPT is a universal conversational chatbot with the ability to converse naturally and openly on a variety of topics. It is made to produce human-like texts in response to requests or chats – summarizing, translating, paraphrasing, generating content, describing art, composing email […]
Teaching with AI?
At the present moment, teaching with AI is a controversial issue, still. Some countries and organizational institutions have declared against the use of AI in education. I find this unthinkable. For me, it is like trying to stop the use of the Internet or any other technology that was, once, novel but time proved its […]
How AI can reshape the education landscape?
This is an extended abstract of the chapter Artificial Intelligence – from idea to implementation. How AI can reshape the education landscape?, written by Dr. Cătălin Vrabie, for the volume Changing the Game. AI in Education, edited by Alexandra Zbuchea, Florina Pinzaru, and Cristian Vidu. The journey of technological evolution has been marked by the […]
Ethics in academia. Thoughts at the end of a project
Heraclitus of Ephesus stated that we can not go into the same river twice. Each time it is a different river because everything flows (panta rei). This absolutization of becoming is dangerous as it is pointing to relativism and, in consequence, to skepticism: if things are constantly changing, how can we reach the truth? A […]
A study on the perspective of the business environment regarding management research interests
The relationship between academia and business, especially for research advances in economic sciences, represents more than a desiderate. It is, in many cases, the necessary framework for testing new theories and the source of further research progress. University Lecturer Sergiu Stan proposes a desktop research report on these complex interdependencies between academia and the business […]
International networking opportunities. Case study: how to increase the visibility of the interdisciplinary research of a university
In this article, the reader may discover more about how international research networks in the field of Management work. Insights on practices concerning intellectual capital valorization from various universities in Europe are presented. The first part of this study introduces an inventory of relevant academic perspectives on international research networks, focusing on the networks concerned […]
Some reflections on research and researchers
Without intellectual curiosity, research is pure opportunism. I do not conceive research without intellectual curiosity. Social phenomena, the same as the natural ones, simply exist. Researchers do not produce them. A researcher does research because they wonder why a phenomenon occurred, how it manifests itself, which are its consequences, if and how those consequences can […]
Positivism in social research
When conducting research, a thorough explanation of the employed methodology must be made to be deemed scientific and subsequently accepted for publication in a journal following a process of (blind) peer review (which is anonymous). There are two types of methodology: positivist and interpretive (ethnographic). The vast majority of social science journals (whether we refer […]