Recently, UGA Online shared a powerful & innovative example of “AI in the middle” of teaching. The shared how an AI Course Starter they built can take a faculty member’s syllabus, rubrics, and course documents and auto-build a course shell in the LMS in about 10–15 minutes. Here’s what their system does: Crucially, it doesn’t […]
When AI Can Build the Course in 15 Minutes, What’s Left for Faculty? Read More »
I asked AI to rank the best AI in higher education resources, and told it to be brutally honest. It lead to this… The flood of “AI in Education” guidance is a firehose of noise. Every university, consultant, and think tank is churning out webinars, white papers, and articles, each making big promises about AI
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Let’s run a quick experiment. Imagine giving the following prompt to a student as a final capstone project for a business degree—a project that would typically take an entire semester, a team of four students, and dozens of hours of work. Prompt: “Act as a junior strategy consultant. Our client is a mid-sized, family-owned winery
The AI Intern is Here. Your Entire Curriculum is Now Obsolete. Read More »
Let’s hold a moment of silence for one of our favorite tools: the five-page essay on a classic text, assigned on Monday and due in a week (or maybe at another point in the semester). For decades, this assignment was a reliable workhorse. It was a decent proxy for whether a student did the reading,
The Assignment is Dead. Long Live the Assignment. Read More »
Another email from the Provost’s office or some well-meaning soul in central administration. Subject: “Updated Guidance on Responsible AI Use.” How many does that make this year? You open it with a sigh. It’s three pages long, written in a dialect of corporate-speak that only exists in university administration (or drafted from GenAI, as though
The University Is Drowning in AI Memos. Faculty Need a Lifeline. Read More »
Somewhere on your campus, in a sterile, beige conference room, the “Presidential Blue-Ribbon AI Task Force” is meeting for the third time this month. Around the table sits the CIO, a lawyer from the General Counsel’s office, the head of university communications, and a well-meaning Dean who’s been tasked with herding the cats. They’re looking
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Imagine your entire faculty has just completed a mandatory First Aid certification. They can all define “aneurysm,” apply a tourniquet, and perform CPR on a dummy. They are, in a word, literate in emergency medical care. Now, ask one of them to perform open-heart surgery. The absurdity of that request is the exact situation facing
AI Literacy is First Aid. Your University Needs Surgeons. Read More »
