AI in higher education Archives - Betting On Me https://www.lynnfaustin.com/tag/ai-in-higher-education/ Live Your Purpose Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:47:36 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 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 AI Can Write the Paper. Can the Student Defend the Thinking? https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-can-write-the-paper-can-the-student-defend-the-thinking/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-can-write-the-paper-can-the-student-defend-the-thinking/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:12:46 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=6757 AI didn't create the assignment problem in higher education—it revealed it. A practical framework for faculty to redesign coursework around judgment, accountability, and visible thinking in an AI-shaped academic environment.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-can-write-the-paper-can-the-student-defend-the-thinking/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: The Polarized Campus — When Students Surge Ahead and Institutions Fall Behind https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-ed-brief-april-30-2026/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-ed-brief-april-30-2026/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:00:03 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=6695 Higher education is living in a polarized AI landscape — students have embraced AI at extraordinary speed while institutions remain inconsistent, under-resourced, and reactive. This week's brief captures AAC&U's AI Week, HEPI's landmark 2026 student survey, ETS's first AI teacher assessment tool, UNESCO's Latin America observatory launch, and a striking new equity dimension in AI adoption.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/ai-higher-ed-brief-april-30-2026/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: Beyond the Gadget Mentality – Governing AI for Whom It Serves https://www.lynnfaustin.com/beyond-the-gadget-mentality-governing-ai-for-whom-it-serves/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/beyond-the-gadget-mentality-governing-ai-for-whom-it-serves/#respond Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:43:38 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=6744 Higher education's AI conversation is shifting from frantic adoption and surveillance toward governance, faculty development, and human-centered design. This week's global evidence—from a 30,000-respondent LATAM survey to a major ethics synthesis—maps what accountable integration now requires.

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]]> https://www.lynnfaustin.com/beyond-the-gadget-mentality-governing-ai-for-whom-it-serves/feed/ 0 AI & Higher Education Global Brief: From Experimentation to Accountability https://www.lynnfaustin.com/from-experimentation-to-accountability/ https://www.lynnfaustin.com/from-experimentation-to-accountability/#respond Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:14:18 +0000 https://www.lynnfaustin.com/?p=6732 Higher education's defining shift this week: from AI experimentation to institutional accountability. A new Science study of 95,513 students calls for assessment reform over detection, HEPI reviews 96 university AI policies, and Berkeley Law takes a restrictive stance.

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