Betting On Me https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ Live Your Purpose Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:47:36 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: What Higher Education Must Build Around AI https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-higher-education-must-build-around-ai/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-higher-education-must-build-around-ai/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:46:08 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7202 Two questions run beneath this week's AI signals: whether institutions can keep assessment standards consistent, and whether their faculty, curriculum, and computing infrastructure are ready for the work AI now demands.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-higher-education-must-build-around-ai/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: When a Polished Product No Longer Proves Learning https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-when-a-polished-product-no-longer-proves/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-when-a-polished-product-no-longer-proves/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:47:16 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7245 As AI makes finished products weaker proof of learning, institutions are redesigning assessment around evidence of thinking, while AI fluency spreads well beyond computer science.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-when-a-polished-product-no-longer-proves/feed/ 0 Some Things Still Require Humans: The Judgment Behind Saying Yes https://www.lynnfaustin.com/some-things-still-require-humans-what-my-first-pd-summit-presentation-taught-me/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/some-things-still-require-humans-what-my-first-pd-summit-presentation-taught-me/#respond Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7214 Fresh off finishing my doctorate and busier than ever, I said yes to my first faculty PD summit presentation anyway. Here's what that decision, and C-Man and Sir Claude a-lot, taught me about the judgment AI still can't do for us.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/some-things-still-require-humans-what-my-first-pd-summit-presentation-taught-me/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: What Counts as Proof of Learning Now https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-detectors-assessment-redesign/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-detectors-assessment-redesign/#respond Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:00:26 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7195 As faculty prepare for a new academic year, higher education is retiring AI detectors and facing a harder question: how to prove students actually learned. This edition covers the shift from detection to evidence of learning, OpenAI's new role-specific education plugins, and the widening gap between AI adoption and governance.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-detectors-assessment-redesign/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: What a Degree Is Worth Now https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-a-degree-is-worth-now/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-a-degree-is-worth-now/#respond Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:00:59 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7165 Two tensions defined the week in higher education and AI: a sharpening question about what a degree is worth, and a widening gap between AI access and the governance, faculty preparation, and assessment design needed to use it well. This edition covers the Ithaka S+R value brief, a 156,135-student study on AI and grades, and new AI degree programs from Chicago to South Dakota.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-education-global-brief-what-a-degree-is-worth-now/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: The ROI Reality: Measuring Enterprise Impact https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-amp-higher-education-global-brief-july-19-2026-the-roi-reality-measuring/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-amp-higher-education-global-brief-july-19-2026-the-roi-reality-measuring/#respond Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:10:00 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=7156 The era of AI experimentation in higher education is over. The conversation now is about ROI. This week's brief looks at why institutions are shifting to enterprise-wide metrics, how AI pedagogical agents are increasing STEM retention by 14 percent, and what the new EDUCAUSE framework means for campus strategy.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-amp-higher-education-global-brief-july-19-2026-the-roi-reality-measuring/feed/ 0 Preparing to Teach with AI: Six Faculty Roles for Reimagining Creative Teaching https://www.lynnfaustin.com/preparing-to-teach-with-ai-six-faculty-roles/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/preparing-to-teach-with-ai-six-faculty-roles/#respond Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:21:36 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=6935 Lead author Dr. Lynn F. Austin and co-authors offer six adaptable faculty roles for integrating AI into the classroom with purpose, integrity, and a student-centered mindset. Published in The Teaching Professor, August 2025.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/preparing-to-teach-with-ai-six-faculty-roles/feed/ 0 Strategic Workforce Readiness Before AI Scale https://www.lynnfaustin.com/strategic-workforce-readiness-before-ai-scale/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/strategic-workforce-readiness-before-ai-scale/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:03:57 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=6898 Scaling AI responsibly requires leaders to sense the right opportunities, seize them through coordinated investment, and transform the organization's work and capabilities.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/strategic-workforce-readiness-before-ai-scale/feed/ 0 AI Governance and Human Judgment https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-governance-and-human-judgment/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-governance-and-human-judgment/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:02:57 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=6896 Governance should not remove people from the decision. It should make clear where human judgment must be exercised, documented, and accountable.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-governance-and-human-judgment/feed/ 0 Preparing Knowledge-Service Organizations for AI https://www.lynnfaustin.com/preparing-knowledge-service-organizations-for-ai/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/preparing-knowledge-service-organizations-for-ai/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:02:02 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=6894 Organizations built on expertise and professional judgment need an AI readiness approach that protects the human capabilities on which their value depends.

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