Higher education is, by nature, very slow to change. So it is with embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI). Yet, when it finally comes, the changes will come in an avalanche. Large scale integration will take about two years of careful consideration, planning and preparation. Meanwhile enrollments will decline, revenues will drop and a range of forms of competition will ramp-up. Then, likely in 2027-28, major changes will come all of a sudden to many universities. The changes will not be uniform across institutions, but they will be pervasive, impacting policies, practices and people.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The Ivory Tower’s Glass Jaw: How Generative AI Shattered the Illusion of Higher Education Assessment - Maya Perez, Web Pro News
For decades, the modern university has operated on a tacit agreement between faculty and student: the former assigns the essay as a proxy for critical thought, and the latter produces it to demonstrate comprehension. This compact, however, was fraying long before the public release of ChatGPT. The arrival of large language models did not act as a battering ram against a fortified castle of learning; rather, it was the gentle push that toppled a structure already hollowed out by grade inflation, administrative bloat, and a transactional view of credentialing. As academia scrambles to rewrite integrity policies, a deeper, more uncomfortable truth is emerging from the faculty lounge to the dean’s office: the crisis is not technological, but pedagogical.
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Improving digital literacy in older adults is now a health imperative: report - Kimberly Bonvissuto, McKnight's Senior Living
GetSetUp, a virtual learning platform for older adults, recently released its 2025 Active Aging Report, which found older adults eager to learn, connect and take charge of their health and independence. But digital literacy remains a barrier — and an opportunity — for health providers and others, they said. The report shares insights gleaned from a national survey that GetSetUp conducted in 2024 among 465 older adults to explore digital confidence and technology adoption, health habits and wellness priorities, financial concerns and work readiness, emotional well-being and social connectedness, and attitudes toward aging in place.
AI is coming for your job, here’s the one move you need to make to stay employable and relevant in the job market - Manu Kaushik, Economic Times
Hart, who previously served as a technical advisor to Jeff Bezos at Amazon and took over as president and CEO of Coursera in February 2025, told CNBC Make It that students need to go beyond traditional degrees to stay viable in a rapidly changing employment landscape. “The advice that I give to my sons... is one of the best things that you can do is to augment your university degree with micro credentials specifically,” he said according to CNBC website. Micro credentials, short, targeted courses that certify specific skills, are gaining traction as companies deploy AI to handle more tasks traditionally assigned to junior employees. Hart said these add-ons are becoming critical as firms increasingly cite AI when laying off workers. Amazon cut 14,000 jobs this year as it doubled down on AI development. Salesforce eliminated 4,000 customer support roles, saying AI can handle roughly 40 percent of tasks performed at the company.
Monday, December 08, 2025
Not degrees, Coursera CEO Greg Hart's advice to his sons to survive AI-era careers — Have micro credentials - Jocelyn Fernandez, Live Mint
Telling the channel that he shares this advice with his own sons, Hart said he believes only have a college degree is no longer enough. “The advice that I give to my sons... is one of the best things that you can do is to augment your university degree with micro credentials specifically,” he said. He further said that these credentials take far less time to complete compared to a traditional college degree or diploma. “It’s become increasingly important to supplement degrees with additional certifications, as graduate jobs are at risk of being replaced by AI.”
How will AI transform teaching and learning at universities? - NAXN — nic newman, Medium
Robots will replace teachers by 2027. That’s the bold claim British education expert Anthony Seldon made in 2018. He may have been the first to put a date on it, but plenty of others are doubling down on the principle, such as Bill Gates, who believes that AI-powered chatbots will become as good as any human tutor, and Khan Academy’s founder Sal Khan, who opened his 2023 Ted Talk by arguing ‘we’re at the cusp of using AI for probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen’. When ChatGPT made its public debut two years ago, the CEO of OpenAI predicted that it ‘will eclipse the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, the Internet revolution all put together’.
Sunday, December 07, 2025
AI is coming for your work, expert warns university staff - Nic Mitchell, University World News
With management consultants predicting that up to one-third of work done today will be automated in the next five years – and universities under pressure to cut costs and do more with less – artificial intelligence offers a cheaper and more efficient way to keep higher education institutions running smoothly, claims an international higher education strategy expert. Instead of trying to fight to protect traditional roles and jobs, Dr Ant Bagshaw, deputy chief executive of the Australian Public Policy Institute in Canberra, Australia, urges universities to embrace the unstoppable march of generative AI and accept that it is “more harmful to keep people in jobs that could be done better by robots”.
Change is changing: How to meet the challenge of radical reinvention - McKinsey
The core task of leadership is managing change—seeing new realities and driving adaptation. To reinvent the organization, leaders must rethink traditional tools and master a more complex level of change. When change becomes “everything, everywhere, all at once,” it’s not surprising that employees feel worn out. The average employee now experiences ten planned change programs a year, a fivefold increase from a decade ago.1 At the same time, engagement and health measures have fallen, support for change programs has dropped, and employee disconnect with leaders has grown (Exhibit 1). But the pace of change is not going to slow down; in fact, it is likely to accelerate. Driven by geopolitical, societal, technological, and financial shifts, the changes hitting most companies today are far reaching, often creating ripple effects that bring even more change.
Saturday, December 06, 2025
Poll: In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost - Ben Kamisar, NBC
Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream. Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade. Just 33% agree a four-year college degree is “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime,” while 63% agree more with the concept that it’s “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off.”
OpenAI Unveils Group Chats to Bring People Into the Same Conversation - IBL News
OpenAI is rolling out the group chats feature globally, allowing people to collaborate with ChatGPT in a single shared conversation. Up to 20 people can participate in a group chat. The company’s goal is to make ChatGPT more social by turning it into a shared space for collaboration and interaction with others. Friends, family members, and co-workers can share space to plan, make decisions, or work through ideas and content together. Group chats are separate from private conversations, and users’ personal ChatGPT memory is not shared. To start a group chat, the user taps the people icon in the top right corner of any new or existing chat. When adding someone to an existing chat, ChatGPT creates a copy of the conversation as a new group chat, keeping the original conversation separate. Users can invite others by sharing a link with one to twenty people, and anyone in the group can share that link to bring others in.
Friday, December 05, 2025
Morgan State could one day run entirely on AI - Ellie Wolfe, The Banner
Grading assignments. Advising students. Sorting through important files. These tasks, and countless more, might not have to be done by employees at Morgan State University anymore. That’s thanks to Obsidian, a new secure artificial intelligence system created by leaders at the Northeast Baltimore university. “The university will learn from itself,” said Timothy Summers, Morgan State’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer. “It’ll adapt in real time and make smarter decisions at every level.”
Exploring trust in generative AI for higher education institutions: a systematic literature review focused on educators - Ana Lelescu, et al; Nature
Although Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) offers transformative opportunities for higher education, its adoption by educators remains limited, primarily due to trust concerns. This systematic literature review aims to synthesise peer-reviewed research conducted between 2019 and August 2024 on the factors influencing educators’ trust in GenAI within higher education institutions. Using PRISMA 2020 guidelines, this study identified 37 articles at the intersection of trust factors, technology adoption, and GenAI impact in higher education from educators’ perspectives. Our analysis reveals that existing AI trust frameworks fail to capture the pedagogical and institutional dimensions specific to higher education contexts. We propose a new conceptual model focused on three dimensions affecting educators’ trust: (1) individual factors (demographics, pedagogical beliefs, sense of control, and emotional experience), (2) institutional strategies (leadership support, policies, and training support), and (3) the socio-ethical context of their interaction. Our findings reveal a significant gap in institutional leadership support, whereas professional development and training were the most frequently mentioned strategies.
Thursday, December 04, 2025
Agentic AI explained: When machines don’t just chat, but act - McKinsey
Three McKinsey experts explain how agentic AI could reshape workflows, decision-making, and how humans and machines collaborate. Agentic AI - the latest wave of artificial intelligence—doesn’t just generate text or code. It takes action. Whereas early large language models (LLMs) could answer questions or summarize information, agentic systems can now perform complex tasks independently, autonomously trigger workflows, and collaborate with other agents. These new capabilities mark an important milestone in AI’s evolution—one that, according to McKinsey senior fellow Michael Chui, could see it fade into the background of everyday life, much like the internet has. “Maybe within 12 or 24 months we’re actually going to stop talking about AI, and not because it won’t exist anymore,” Chui says. “It’ll just be a capability that we expect machines to do.”
Oregon State’s new AI fundamentals microcredentials prepare learners for an AI-driven future - Tyler Hansen, Educational Ventures Oregon State
Oregon State University is turning artificial intelligence breakthroughs into accessible, short-form learning opportunities through the launch of its AI fundamentals microcredentials, a new collection of interdisciplinary credentials available to all OSU students and learners everywhere. These offerings bridge Oregon State’s strengths in research, applied learning and ethics, empowering learners to understand, question and apply AI in a subject of interest in ways that are technically sound and socially responsible.
Wednesday, December 03, 2025
A leader’s guide to the future of learning at work - McKinsey
The race to embrace AI in the corporate world means that people at all levels of an organization urgently need to build new tech skills and knowledge. In turn, many companies are accelerating their learning and development programs to help executives and employees keep up with the pace of change. This dynamic landscape presents an opportunity for chief learning officers (CLOs) to reimagine the future of learning in the workplace. This week, we look at how CLOs can help organizations make learning a more fundamental part of the work experience and create cultures of continuous development.
How AI and data analytics are transforming higher education in 2025 - AZ Big Media
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how universities teach, assess, and operate. Imagine a classroom where every student receives personalized lessons, where educators can predict challenges before exams, and where every academic decision is driven by data. For decades, higher education relied on intuition and tradition. But as digital learning expands, institutions are turning to AI and data analytics to make education more efficient, inclusive, and results-driven. These technologies aren’t replacing educators; they’re empowering them to teach smarter and support students in new, impactful ways.
Tuesday, December 02, 2025
The more that people use AI, the more likely they are to overestimate their own abilities - Drew Turney Live Science
Researchers found that AI flattens the bell curve of a common principle in human psychology, known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, giving us all the illusion of competence. When asked to evaluate how good we are at something, we tend to get that estimation completely wrong. It's a universal human tendency, with the effect seen most strongly in those with lower levels of ability. Called the Dunning-Kruger effect, after the psychologists who first studied it, this phenomenon means people who aren't very good at a given task are overconfident, while people with high ability tend to underestimate their skills. It's often revealed by cognitive tests — which contain problems to assess attention, decision-making, judgment and language.
But now, scientists at Finland's Aalto University (together with collaborators in Germany and Canada) have found that using artificial intelligence (AI) all but removes the Dunning-Kruger effect — in fact, it almost reverses it.
5 McKinsey insights on how agentic AI is reshaping industries - McKinsey
Nearly eight in ten companies report using gen AI—yet, paradoxically, just as many report no significant bottom-line impact. Now, with the rapid rise of agentic AI, organizations must continue to upskill their workforces, adapt their tech infrastructure, and deploy agent-specific governance mechanisms. “AI agents offer a way to break out of the gen AI paradox,” write McKinsey Senior Partners Alexander Sukharevsky, Klemens Hjartar, Lari Hämäläinen, Stéphane Bout, and coauthors. “That’s because agents have the potential to automate complex business processes—combining autonomy, planning, memory, and integration—to shift gen AI from a reactive tool to a proactive, goal-driven virtual collaborator.”
Monday, December 01, 2025
Beyond the Hype: Transforming Academic Excellence and Leadership Culture in the Age of AI - Joe Sallustio, Campus Technology
While most higher education leaders focus on AI's operational benefits — and rightfully so — the deeper transformation lies in how artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping what it means to learn, teach, and lead in the 21st century. The question isn't just whether institutions can keep pace operationally; the real challenge is whether we can maintain academic rigor and cultivate critical thinking in an AI-enhanced world while fostering the leadership culture necessary for sustainable transformation. In the Educause 2024 AI Landscape study, approximately 64% of students indicated regular use of generative AI tools as part of their coursework. This isn't a future trend — it's today's reality. Advanced AI tutoring systems can now offer formative feedback that encourages deeper critical analysis beyond mere surface editing, helping both students and faculty engage more meaningfully in learning.
Immersive AI and VR Experiences Bridge the Skills Gap in Higher Education - Greg Henderson, EdTech
Higher education IT decision-makers often talk about hardware specs, endpoint security and the networking backbone that keeps digital classrooms running smoothly. But the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s immersive learning environment, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR), was more than a proof of concept. It focused on building students’ skills to prepare them for professional success. Last year, the Joseph M. Bryan School for Business and Economics at UNC Greensboro was the first university in the state of North Carolina to receive $1 million in grant funding and wraparound support from Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund. Part of Google.org, the tech giant’s philanthropic arm, the funding is part of a larger $25 million collaboration with the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics.
Sunday, November 30, 2025
No, the Pre-AI Era Was Not That Great - Zach Justus and Nik Janos, Inside Higher Ed
There are dozens of examples we could pull together here, and we could dive much deeper into the historical archive to find professors complaining about study/reading/writing habits, but the point is clear enough. What we are interested in is, what are the impacts of being overly nostalgic about pre-AI/pandemic education? First, it allows us to blame everything wrong with education on generative AI rather than acknowledge deep and justifiable concerns we have had for a while. The current technology serves as a convenient scapegoat for problems we may have been aware of but decided to live with. Course Hero, Chegg and other providers had industrialized academic dishonesty before ChatGPT was launched. We decided not to deal with that and, rather than face up to our past oversights, we have simply forgotten.
U launches ChatGPT Edu, a university-centered generative AI tool for campus use - Office of Artificial Intelligence, University of Utah
The University of Utah has launched OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu, a version of the revolutionary generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool specifically designed for higher education and securely deployed for university use. Students, faculty and staff can request access to the tool via University IT’s Service Catalog and they’ll receive an email with login instructions. “We’ve been steadily building a foundation for responsible AI across campus, and ChatGPT Edu represents a major leap forward,” Chief AI Officer Manish Parashar said. “The U is at the forefront of reimagining how we teach, learn and research in the age of generative AI, and ChatGPT Edu will help us maintain an edge. We’re excited for our community to use this tool in a way that’s secure, optimized for academic work and aligned with our values.” As the university vets and deploys AI-powered tools for university work, protecting data is a top priority. With ChatGPT Edu, no university data is used to train the tool, and university-wide security measures make it safer to use than personal accounts.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws - Robert Hart and Dominic Preston, the Verge
After years of staring down the world’s biggest tech companies and setting the bar for tough regulation worldwide, Europe has blinked. Under intense pressure from industry and the US government, Brussels is stripping protections from its flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — including simplifying its infamous cookie permission pop-ups — and relaxing or delaying landmark AI rules in an effort to cut red tape and revive sluggish economic growth. The changes, proposed by the European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, changes core elements of the GDPR, making it easier for companies to share anonymized and pseudonymized personal datasets. They would allow AI companies to legally use personal data to train AI models, so long as that training complies with other GDPR requirements.
AI in the Ivory Tower: A Necessary Evolution or a Threat to Academic Integrity? - TokenRing AI, WRAL
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into higher education has ignited a fervent debate across campuses worldwide. Far from being a fleeting trend, AI presents a fundamental paradigm shift, challenging traditional pedagogical approaches, redefining academic integrity, and promising to reshape the very essence of a college degree. As universities grapple with the profound implications of this technology, the central question remains: do institutions need to embrace more AI, or less, to safeguard the future of education and the integrity of their credentials? This discourse is not merely theoretical; it's actively unfolding as institutions navigate the transformative potential of AI to personalize learning, streamline administration, and enhance research, while simultaneously confronting critical concerns about academic dishonesty, algorithmic bias, and the potential erosion of essential human skills. The immediate significance is clear: AI is poised to either revolutionize higher education for the better or fundamentally undermine its foundational principles, making the decisions made today crucial for generations to come.
Friday, November 28, 2025
New UK course builds AI skills across every major - Allie Barnes, University of Kentucky News
University of Kentucky students are invited to learn how to thrive in an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven world through a new online course. UK is offering a 100-level, one-credit-hour course — Transdisciplinary Educational Approaches to Advance Kentucky (TEK 100): Collaborative Intelligence — Understanding and Using Modern AI. This rolling, asynchronous course will be offered twice during the Spring 2026 semester, to create multiple opportunities for students to fit this in their schedule. This course will run from Jan. 12 through March 2, and from March 9 through May 8.
Student cheating dominates talk of generative AI in higher ed, but universities and tech companies face ethical issues too - Jeffrey C. Dixon, Times-Union
As a sociologist who teaches about AI and studies the impact of this technology on work, I am well acquainted with research on the rise of AI and its social consequences. And when one looks at ethical questions from multiple perspectives – those of students, higher education institutions and technology companies – it is clear that the burden of responsible AI use should not fall entirely on students’ shoulders. I argue that responsibility, more generally, begins with the companies behind this technology and needs to be shouldered by higher education institutions themselves.
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Faculty are ready for workforce alignment. Institutional leaders must be, too - Justin Louder, University Business
Faculty are focused on preparing students for what comes next. However, new data shows there is a gap to address. Anthology’s 2025 U.S. Faculty Survey reports that only one in five faculty feels very confident their course content aligns with current workforce expectations, and nearly 30% say students question whether their learning connects to real-world goals. The timing of these findings matters. Across industries, employer expectations are shifting, and faculty are feeling that pressure firsthand. Their shared goal remains the same: they want to prepare students for meaningful careers and lives. But the pace of change demands new ways to connect learning to work. Graduates are entering a labor market where skills need constant refreshing, and where the ability to adapt is as important as the degree itself
How new immersive tech is shaping workforce skills - Alcino Donadel, University Business
Career simulation training is gaining a new layer of realism powered by advances in artificial intelligence and virtual reality, which provide students with a more responsive environment to test their technical and soft skills. Since flight simulators first became a staple in aviation training decades ago, simulation technology has expanded into other highly technical fields, such as cybersecurity, law enforcement and healthcare. Simulations expose students to high-stakes situations that require sophisticated care but that occur very rarely. In healthcare, these situations are called “HALO” (high-acuity, low-occurrence) events. New technology provides a low-stakes environment where students practice technical skills, communication and problem-solving
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
The New Cliff Facing Higher Ed and How AI Might Help Solve It - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
There is a new “cliff” in American higher education, and it is not the demographic cliff. Rather, it is the dramatic cliff in math knowledge, skills and abilities. Let me be clear that other discipline deficiencies are found in this new generation of college students, however they are dwarfed by those in math. These have most recently been quantified in a report from the University of California San Diego. The official “Senate-Administration Workgroup on Admissions Final Report” (released November 6, 2025) contains disturbing findings. This widely discussed report revealed that nearly one in eight incoming freshmen couldn’t meet middle school math standards!
As New Federal Research Funding Resumes, China May Already Be Outspending U.S. - Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed
China may have already overtaken the U.S. in research and development spending, ending a half century of American hegemony in financing scientific innovation, according to an American Association for the Advancement of Science researcher. “We’re entering into uncharted territory,” said Alessandra Zimmermann, the association’s R&D budget and policy program project director, during last week’s Association of Public and Land-grant Universities annual conference. In a follow-up interview with Inside Higher Ed this week, Zimmermann said, “No one knows what it looks like when the U.S. is not the dominant spender because there is no analogue.”
Teaching creativity in the age of AI - Fignon Tee Meng Wah, the Star
Educators worldwide are reexamining how creativity can be taught in an age when artificial intelligence (AI) tools are able to generate essays, images and designs in seconds. With the rise of platforms such as ChatGPT, Midjourney and DALL·E, creating content has never been easier. What once required hours of research, sketching or writing can now be completed almost instantly. For students, this development opens new possibilities. For educators, it presents the challenge of ensuring that learning and creativity remain authentic when high-quality output can be produced at the click of a button.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
How Coursera’s latest move shakes up the upskilling movement - Alcino Donadel, University Business
Coursera will charge a 15% fee to colleges and companies that use its online learning platform, starting in 2026. It’s a significant shift in universities’ relationship with third-party online program managers, or OPMs, following the scramble toward digital learning during the pandemic and the MOOC trend of the 2010s. “[Coursera] is not as dependent on their university relationships and is instead relying on industry partners and internal content,” says Brady Colby, head of market research at Validated Insights, a higher education research firm. The shift should alert higher education leaders that they could lose a share of the upskilling industry to other sectors, particularly in artificial intelligence, Colby adds.
College grads face job crisis as artificial intelligence disrupts entry-level market - Jasneet Gill, Seattle Red
A new report from the Burning Glass Institute delivers a sobering assessment of the modern workforce, confirming that a college degree is increasingly becoming a poor investment for young Americans. For the first time in three decades, the unemployment rate for recent college graduates (ages 22-27) has plummeted so drastically that it is virtually equal to that of workers with only a high school diploma. This shocking convergence is the result of the highest unemployment levels for new degree holders in decades. The study notes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is eliminating the very “entry-level” work—like research, drafting, and analysis—that once provided initial on-the-job training. With many of these tasks now handled by AI, the critical opportunities for developing skills are being removed.
Monday, November 24, 2025
Meet The AI Professor: Coming To A Higher Education Campus Near You - Nick Ladany, Forbes
AI professors, in many ways, will be the best versions of the best professors students can have. AI professors will be realistic avatars that go far beyond the simple tutor model based on large language models, and will likely be here before anyone sees it coming. AI professors will: be available 24 hours, 7 days a week; have an exceedingly large bank of knowledge and experience that they can draw from to illustrate concepts; be complex responders to students’ learning styles and neurodivergence thereby providing truly personalized education with evidenced-based effective pedagogy; have the ability to assess and bring students along on any topic about which students desire to learn, thereby increasing access; teach content areas as well as durable skills such as critical thinking; and have updates in real time that fit the expectations and needs of the current workforce. A reasonable concern that has been raised is how to prevent AI professors from hallucinating or providing inaccurate information. One mechanism to guard against this is to ensure that the course and teaching that occur are within a closed system of content and have oversight by human professors.
A Liberal Arts College Goes All In on AI - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
Colby College developed a platform, called Mule Chat, that allows users to explore several large language models, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and LLaMA. The platform provides a safe on-ramp into generative AI usage and relies on student tutors to disseminate information to peers. In the latest episode of Voices of Student Success, host Ashley Mowreader speaks with David Watts, the director of Colby College’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Michael Yankoski, Davis AI research and teaching scientist, to learn about the college’s AI institute and how Mule Chat works.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Opinion: Higher Ed Should Embrace AI as an Opportunity - Kimberly E. Estep, GovTech
Colleges and universities that thrive in the era of artificial intelligence will be those that see AI not as a threat but as an opportunity to advance economic mobility through accessible, personalized education. Many colleges and universities have seen steady decline in enrollment since 2010, exacerbated by the pandemic five years ago and new applications of technological advancements. In a recent report, bestcolleges.com counted 84 colleges that have closed or merged since March 2020, including my own undergraduate alma mater, Judson College in Alabama. Despite this concerning trend, there are colleges and universities that are thriving in this new reality. My accredited online school, Western Governors University, is one of them. The strong University of Georgia network and the 22 colleges that make up the Technical College System of Georgia are a few other examples.
AI in HE: Assessment at risk or curriculum rethink needed? - Cristina Costa, University World News
In the frenzied attempt to address the impact of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) in higher education, universities have narrowed their concerns to a key question: how to design ‘secure’ assessments that resist the influence of Gen-AI large language models. Such framing implicitly casts students as being at risk of Gen-AI influence. This is evident in institutional memos, working groups and practitioner discussions, which reflect a persistent concern with upholding academic integrity and ensuring that student work reflects their own effort. Yet, conversely, these same institutions champion Gen-AI as a tool for innovation and learning. These inconsistencies are too apparent to be ignored. This contradiction is not just ironic; it is symptomatic of a more profound issue. Gen-AI has come to expose higher education’s long-standing curriculum crisis: the transactional, performative approach to education that has undermined the deeper aims of higher learning, that of fostering meaningful intellectual growth and critical inquiry.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models - Jiayi Geng, et al; arXiv
Language model (LM) assistants are increasingly used in applications such as brainstorming and research. Improvements in memory and context size have allowed these models to become more autonomous, which has also resulted in more text accumulation in their context windows without explicit user intervention. This comes with a latent risk: the belief profiles of models -- their understanding of the world as manifested in their responses or actions -- may silently change as context accumulates. This can lead to subtly inconsistent user experiences, or shifts in behavior that deviate from the original alignment of the models. In this paper, we explore how accumulating context by engaging in interactions and processing text -- talking and reading -- can change the beliefs of language models, as manifested in their responses and behaviors. Our results reveal that models' belief profiles are highly malleable: GPT-5 exhibits a 54.7% shift in its stated beliefs after 10 rounds of discussion about moral dilemmas and queries about safety, while Grok 4 shows a 27.2% shift on political issues after reading texts from the opposing position....Our analysis exposes the hidden risk of belief shift as models undergo extended sessions of talking or reading, rendering their opinions and actions unreliable.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01805?et_rid=508865405&et_cid=5790354
Anthropic’s Claude Takes Control of a Robot Dog - Will Knight, Wired
Anthropic believes AI models will increasingly reach into the physical world. To understand where things are headed, it asked Claude to program a quadruped. In a new study, Anthropic researchers found that Claude was able to automate much of the work involved in programming a robot and getting it to do physical tasks. On one level, their findings show the agentic coding abilities of modern AI models. On another, they hint at how these systems may start to extend into the physical realm as models master more aspects of coding and get better at interacting with software—and physical objects as well.
Friday, November 21, 2025
Author Talks: How AI-powered teams could transform the future of work - McKinsey
Ready to create a customized team of global experts? Harnessing the power of AI, companies can build on-demand teams and rethink their approach to collaboration. In this edition of Author Talks, McKinsey Global Publishing’s Mike Borruso chats with Melissa Valentine, associate professor of management science and engineering, about Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work (MIT Press, October 2025), coauthored with Michael S. Bernstein. Valentine shares how flash teams can optimize team assembly and workflow to provide a new managerial superpower for business leaders. This approach transforms traditional team structures, enables more data-driven decision-making, and drives better project outcomes. An edited version of the conversation follows.
ChatGPT new app integration is redefining AI learning, says Coursera CEO Greg Hart - India Today
The new app integration within ChatGPT now lets users access Coursera directly within the chatbot. Coursera CEO Greg Hart explains how this collaboration between the two companies personalises education and marks a new era for online learning. To understand what this integration means for the future of education and AI, India Today Tech spoke to Greg Hart, CEO of Coursera. As a former Amazon executive who helped build Alexa, Hart’s inputs offer a front-row view of how large language models (LLMs) are reshaping education, not as competitors to online learning, but as useful collaborators.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Unlocking the value of AI in software development - McKinsey
For all of software’s technological advances and world-changing impacts over the past half century, its seismic potential has historically been limited by a shortage of skilled developers, finite coding capacity, and the complexity of coordinating large projects. The emergence of gen AI, and more recently agentic AI, was and is supposed to overcome those obstacles, leading to untold new productivity and value creation. While many organizations are already seeing some positive impact from these tools, a small subset of companies is reaping particularly large gains. That is one of the key findings from a recent McKinsey survey of a wide range of nearly 300 publicly traded companies.
Empowering personalized learning at scale: Loyola Marymount University’s AI course companion - Lorin Miller, Matt Frank, and Brian Drawert, AWS Public Sector Blog
LMU’s mission emphasizes personal connections in learning through a high-touch, individualized approach. With most students turning to generic, off-the-shelf AI tools, the university saw an opportunity. “One of the things that sparked this is, ‘How do we make a better version of what’s currently available?’” said Matt Frank, director of teaching, learning, and research technology at LMU. Brian Drawert, manager of research computing at LMU and the AI Study Companion’s developer, explained the core issue: “AI was already trying to help students with their coursework, but doing it poorly. The challenge was giving them a chat interface that actually answered questions for their class.” Modern learners also juggle complex schedules, including jobs, family commitments, and study abroad programs, making traditional faculty office hours inaccessible to many students. Building a 24/7 solution was particularly important.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
The AI Tool EVERYONE Should Be Using - Futurepedia, YouTube
NotebookLM is more than just the viral AI podcast feature. It's the best tool I've found for actually understanding and retaining information - not just collecting it. In this video, I'll show you every NotebookLM feature and explain what makes it so powerful: how it handles 260x more content than ChatGPT using RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), why it has such low hallucination rates, and how to use all the different output formats - podcasts, videos, mind maps, study guides, flashcards, and more. Whether you're a student, researcher, or just drowning in bookmarked articles and saved videos, this tutorial will show you how to turn scattered information into actual knowledge. [Also RAG retrieval augmented generation is explained - If you have not been using NotebookLM, I encourage you view this podcast to get up to speed on this great learning tool! - ray]
A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 - Sundar Pichai, et al; the Keyword
It’s state-of-the-art in reasoning, built to grasp depth and nuance — whether it’s perceiving the subtle clues in a creative idea, or peeling apart the overlapping layers of a difficult problem. Gemini 3 is also much better at figuring out the context and intent behind your request, so you get what you need with less prompting. It’s amazing to think that in just two years, AI has evolved from simply reading text and images to reading the room. And starting today, we’re shipping Gemini at the scale of Google. That includes Gemini 3 in AI Mode in Search with more complex reasoning and new dynamic experiences. This is the first time we are shipping Gemini in Search on day one. Gemini 3 is also coming today to the Gemini app, to developers in AI Studio and Vertex AI, and in our new agentic development platform, Google Antigravity — more below.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Preparing for tomorrow’s agentic workforce - McKinsey Podcast
The time is now to focus on AI infrastructure, which will enable companies to scale AI and build a future where humans and multiple AI agents successfully work together. To effectively compete, companies must take a hard look at what they can do to support an AI infrastructure. On this episode of the At the Edge podcast, SambaNova Systems cofounder and CEO Rodrigo Liang joins host and McKinsey Senior Partner Lareina Yee to discuss agentic AI, the S-curve of AI value, and why businesses must adopt a hybrid AI model.
The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation - McKinsey
Almost all survey respondents say their organizations are using AI, and many have begun to use AI agents. Most organizations are still in the experimentation or piloting phase: Nearly two-thirds of respondents say their organizations have not yet begun scaling AI across the enterprise. High curiosity in AI agents: Sixty-two percent of survey respondents say their organizations are at least experimenting with AI agents. Positive leading indicators on impact of AI: Respondents report use-case-level cost and revenue benefits, and 64 percent say that AI is enabling their innovation. However, just 39 percent report EBIT impact at the enterprise level. High performers use AI to drive growth, innovation, and cost: Eighty percent of respondents say their companies set efficiency as an objective of their AI initiatives, but the companies seeing the most value from AI often set growth or innovation as additional objectives. Redesigning workflows is a key success factor: Half of those AI high performers intend to use AI to transform their businesses, and most are redesigning workflows. Differing perspectives on employment impact: Respondents vary in their expectations of AI’s impact on the overall workforce size of their organizations in the coming year: 32 percent expect decreases, 43 percent no change, and 13 percent increases.
Monday, November 17, 2025
EDUCAUSE ’25: How AI Policies Affect Student Mental Health - Abby Sourwine, GovTech
Punitive, fear-driven approaches to rule-making about artificial intelligence in higher education can deepen mistrust, stress and disconnection among students. Alternatively, there are opportunities for teachable moments. As some institutions and instructors respond to the boom of artificial intelligence with bans and automated detection tools, students are worried about being falsely accused of using AI. At the 2025 EDUCAUSE conference, Ashley Dockens, associate provost of digital learning at Lamar University, and Cindy Blackwell, director of academic faculty development at Texas A&M University, warned that higher-education leaders and teachers may be holding students to an unreasonable standard — expecting students to inherently understand when AI use is appropriate and inappropriate and, in the latter case, to keep a perfect track record of resisting temptation.
Penn State Smeal launches comprehensive artificial intelligence initiative - Smeal College of Business
The Penn State Smeal College of Business has announced a comprehensive, college-wide artificial intelligence (AI) initiative. Smeal is integrating AI across its teaching, research and operations — ensuring students, faculty and staff are equipped to lead responsibly in an AI-driven economy. “AI isn’t a future possibility — it’s here, now,” said Corey Phelps, John and Karen Arnold Dean of Smeal. “As a leading business school, we have a responsibility to prepare our students not just to use AI, but to lead with it — with purpose, responsibility and integrity. The future success of our graduates depends on how well we rise to this moment.”
Sunday, November 16, 2025
The rise of micro-credentials in continuing education - BC Business
Learn or be left behind. This is the imperative that’s driving many mid-career (and, increasingly, earlycareer) professionals to gain a competitive advantage in today’s tough employment market through upskilling. “Today, artificial intelligence is not a futuristic concept but a mainstream reality reshaping industries and professions,” says Jo-Anne Clarke, dean of Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Victoria (UVic). “Add the complexities of tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty and economic volatility, and it’s clear that both employers and employees are navigating an increasingly dynamic and unpredictable landscape.” In this context, a person’s initial credentials, degrees or training may not be enough for prospective employers, or for existing employers hiring for a senior role.
https://bcbusiness.ca/industries/education/the-rise-of-micro-credentials-in-continuing-education/
Kelsey Robinson: Reshaping the Marketing Landscape - McKinley Quarterly
Across C-suites, there is growing interest in working hand in hand on everything from ROI and performance measurement to making space for bold ideas that drive growth. There is a lot of interest in the duality of rigor and inspiration. Another topic that’s dominating marketing conversations is agentic AI, autonomous AI systems that work independently to complete tasks. A year ago, marketers were talking about experiments and pilots with gen AI. Now, they’re exploring how to use agentic AI across broad domains in marketing and beyond: creating consumer experiences at scale, enabling hyperpersonalization, rethinking media buying, and unlocking creative development in ways that not only save money but also truly fuel growth. Many CMOs are asking themselves whether they have the right strategies and systems to make this leap.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design - Travis Beals, Google Resarch
Project Suncatcher is a moonshot exploring a new frontier: equipping solar-powered satellite constellations with TPUs and free-space optical links to one day scale machine learning compute in space. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a foundational technology that could reshape our world, driving new scientific discoveries and helping us tackle humanity's greatest challenges. Now, we're asking where we can go to unlock its fullest potential. The Sun is the ultimate energy source in our solar system, emitting more power than 100 trillion times humanity’s total electricity production. In the right orbit, a solar panel can be up to 8 times more productive than on earth, and produce power nearly continuously, reducing the need for batteries. In the future, space may be the best place to scale AI compute. Working backwards from there, our new research moonshot, Project Suncatcher, envisions compact constellations of solar-powered satellites, carrying Google TPUs and connected by free-space optical links. This approach would have tremendous potential for scale, and also minimizes impact on terrestrial resources.
UPenn Expands Educator AI Training Program With Google - Government Technology
A $1 million grant from Google will help scale a one-district pilot program on teaching with artificial intelligence, offered through the University of Pennsylvania, up to five districts and regions. A University of Pennsylvania program training K-12 teachers and administrators on artificial intelligence best practices is scaling up, thanks to a $1 million investment from Google. The funding, announced Oct. 28 by the university’s Graduate School of Education, will allow the university’s Pioneering AI in School Systems (PASS) program to expand to five school districts and regions across Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware beginning in December. Launched in spring 2025, PASS was first piloted in the School District of Philadelphia. It provides professional development to help educators and administrators understand and implement AI responsibly in schools
Friday, November 14, 2025
Use GenAI to slow down and reflect more deeply - Sam Illingworth, Times Higher Education
GenAI is often presented to academics as a tool for acceleration. Marking can be automated, lecture slides summarised in seconds and drafts polished at speed. The message is clear: do the same work, only faster. Yet, this framing risks reinforcing an already unsustainable level of efficiency. What if, instead of speeding up, GenAI could help us slow down? Used thoughtfully, these tools can encourage reflection, deepen dialogue and make space for richer connections between research and teaching. Slowness here is not inefficiency. Instead, it is the deliberate act of reclaiming attention for what matters most: curiosity, questioning and collaboration.
Opinion: Higher education needs to catch up with AI, not run from it - Teresa Butzerin, Willamette Collegian
Given that AI will only become more prevalent in our lives, universities should be taking more formal steps to make sure graduating students are literate in the practical uses of AI and leave college with a well-rounded understanding of the ethical issues surrounding it. While the threat AI poses to academic integrity has caused it to become villainized in higher education, it’s time for universities to prioritize teaching students to use AI as a tool because these large language models are only getting faster, smarter and more omnipresent. A recent study conducted by OpenAI — the company that owns ChatGPT — revealed that over one-third of adults aged 18-24 in the U.S. use the chatbot regularly, and a significant portion of this use is related to the completion of schoolwork.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Teaching with AI: From Prohibition to Partnership for Critical Thinking - Michael Kiener, Faculty Focus
However, banning AI will not prevent students from using it, whether for nefarious or appropriate purposes. Instead, it may deny students a chance to practice and engage with AI in an educational setting where they and faculty can explore its full potential collaboratively. This kind of restrictive thinking is based on two flawed assumptions: that AI cannot support student thinking and that students will only use AI to cheat. The challenge is not to police every use, but to reframe our approach from one of prohibition to one of collaborative partnership. This shift in perspective allows faculty to systematically integrate AI into courses in a developmentally appropriate manner. By centering policies on learning, we can encourage students to take an active, self-regulated approach to their education. This reframes the focus from dishonesty to autonomous learning, emphasizing academic values while scaffolding meaningful assignments that challenge student thinking.
Initiative will help Indiana colleges and universities address AI challenges and opportunities for their institutions and students - Lilly Endowment
Lilly Endowment Inc. is launching a new initiative, Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education (AIHE), to support Indiana colleges and universities in their ongoing efforts to address the implications of a rapidly evolving technology in their institutions and the lives of their students. Through AIHE, the Endowment is allocating a total of up to $500 million in funding to eligible higher education institutions in Indiana. The aim of the initiative is two-fold: to help Indiana colleges and universities 1) consider more fully the challenges and opportunities that artificial intelligence (AI) presents for their institutions and their students, and 2) develop new or enhance existing strategies and programs to improve their students’ education opportunities and outcomes and their preparation to prosper in the workplace and life in a future that will be increasingly shaped by AI.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Transitioning to the Agentic University 2026–27 - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
Most of us in higher education are now familiar with generative AI bots, where you formulate a prompt and get a reply. Yet, we are now beginning the advancement to agentic AI, the autonomous 24-7 project manager. The dramatic enhancement in the capability of AI as it moves from bots to agents will bring about efficiencies and have a far greater impact on the day-to-day operations, strategies and effectiveness of our institutions. We will become less expensive, more personalized and more responsive to students and employers. Those are big claims, so for this column, I turned to my personal assistant, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro on Nov. 1, 2025, to help me with identifying the pathway to those outcomes.
Redefining Learning: How Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Education - digitalLEARNING Network
We are living through one of the most profound transformations in the history of education. The industrial model of learning is being replaced by a new paradigm that values experience, adaptability, and creativity. For decades, education has been structured around the transfer of information; now, we are moving toward the cultivation of intelligence itself — human and artificial. The convergence of Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not simply an enhancement of traditional teaching tools. It represents a cognitive revolution. These technologies allow us to simulate reality, model complexity, and personalize learning in ways previously unimaginable. Education is no longer confined to the classroom or the screen; it becomes an immersive journey — emotional, sensory, and experiential.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Can creativity still exist in a world of Artificial Intelligence? - Bailee McLeod, Avondale
Our relationship with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ever evolving. The continual advancement of the technology means our interactions with it can change, almost daily. What started as asking Siri to ‘call mum’ evolved to asking Google to ‘turn down the air conditioning’, to now asking Chat to make an itinerary of our three-week Euro vacation, or craft a work email for us. All time saving tasks, but what are the costs of integrating AI into our lives? We spoke with four leading creatives on Avondale University’s academic staff to explore the effects and impact Artificial Intelligence has on creativity, art and our human experience.
The change agent: Goals, decisions, and implications for CEOs in the agentic age - McKinsey Quarterly
Executives are fond of quoting hockey great Wayne Gretzky, who is credited with saying: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” This is sound business advice at one level. But that puck is moving a whole lot faster than it used to as agentic AI rapidly evolves. Move faster may seem tone deaf as CEOs and their senior teams struggle to see bottom-line value from early gen AI investments. Developing and scaling gen AI use cases have proven frustratingly challenging. Some executives remain unconvinced that AI agents will have a significant impact—at least in the short term—and have stepped back from their investments.1
Monday, November 10, 2025
Opinion: Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions — AI Today and Tomorrow - Jim A. Jorstad, GovTech
To prepare students for a world so saturated with technology, it has arguably never been more important to speculate on the possibilities of our future, and how we can prepare for it. In business, science and education, we are now continually searching for clues about the future of artificial intelligence. In October 2006, I had the opportunity to listen to computer scientist and inventor Ray Kurzweil at the EDUCAUSE conference as he spoke about “The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Education and Society.” The future-facing ideas he shared back then still have relevance to education and our daily lives, and I’d like to highlight some of them.
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities - Rachele Dini, LA Review of Books
The Guardian published “A Machine-Shaped Hand” on March 12, a day after Altman first shared it on X. A callout link at the top of the page directed readers to Jeanette Winterson’s response, “OpenAI’s Metafictional Short Story About Grief Is Beautiful and Moving”—a not-so-subtly titled piece that, while making an unconvincing case for the story’s literary value, provided a solid argument for automating reviews via such gems as “Good writing moves us”; “What is beautiful and moving about this story is its understanding of its lack of understanding”; “AI reads us. Now it’s time for us to read AI”; and “Literature isn’t only entertainment. It is a way of seeing.” The story itself is about an LLM prompted to write an original metafictional literary work about AI and grief.
Sunday, November 09, 2025
EDUCAUSE ’25: 3 Questions to Guide Higher Ed AI Strategy - GovTech
Many colleges and universities see the need for an institutional AI strategy, but there are so many variables involved that it can be hard for IT leaders to know where to begin. Addressing an audience of such leaders at the 2025 EDUCAUSE annual conference in Nashville this week, Managing Director Alexander Brown of technology consulting firm Attain Partners said as a baseline, each project should align with the institution’s mission and consider the different levels of trust among various user groups, their capacity for training and education, and infrastructural capacity to accelerate other projects in line with the rapid pace of emerging technology.
https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/educause-25-3-questions-to-guide-higher-ed-ai-strategy
President Aoun outlines roadmap for higher ed in the age of AI - Cyrus Moulton, Northeastern
Artificial intelligence can do your research and write your term paper. It cannot, however, interpret your professor’s expression when you hand that paper in. Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun said higher education’s role is to teach how to navigate such a situation. “The value of higher education is to raise those questions about the balance between human agency and AI agency,” Aoun said during a keynote address in Toronto on Tuesday. “What’s at stake for us in higher education is to remain relevant in the age of AI.”
Saturday, November 08, 2025
Data Points - McKinsey
How does AI learn to see, hear, and think all at once? As multimodal gen AI models evolve rapidly, they are reshaping how organizations process and generate information—from interpreting complex visuals to answering questions across multiple formats and data types. Costs are dropping, capabilities are multiplying, and the business implications are profound. Think you’re up to speed on multimodal AI? Test yourself with this month’s Data Points questions
In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert - Steve Nadis, Quantum Magazine
Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” Even as large language models such as ChatGPT superficially replicate ordinary speech, researchers want to know if there are specific aspects of human language that simply have no parallels in the communication systems of other animals or artificially intelligent devices. In particular, researchers have been exploring the extent to which language models can reason about language itself. For some in the linguistic community, language models not only don’t have reasoning abilities, they can’t.
Friday, November 07, 2025
Navigating AI Adoption in Higher Ed: College Presidents on Student Learning vs Operational Efficiency - University Business
While generative AI tools like ChatGPT have dominated headlines and sparked urgent conversations about academic integrity and pedagogy, many institutions are simultaneously exploring AI’s potential to revolutionize back-office operations—from enrollment management and advising to financial planning and facilities management. In this candid conversation, three college presidents share how they’re navigating these parallel paths of AI adoption. Should institutions prioritize AI investments that directly impact student learning experiences, or focus on operational efficiencies that can free up resources and improve service delivery? Are these truly competing priorities, or can they be part of a unified strategy?
Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI - David Gewirtz, ZD Net
We live in an astonishing technology-based world, fueled by and dependent on software. That software provides our networks, our security, our financial transactions, our supply chain management, and, of course, the generative AI systems that are top of mind for just about everyone. But where does that digital infrastructure come from? Nearly all of it is based on free and open source software, what the industry calls FOSS. This is code built by enormously collaborative communities, driven by coders who use the fruits of FOSS and who also actively contribute back bug fixes and improvements.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-open-source-may-not-survive-the-rise-of-generative-ai/
Thursday, November 06, 2025
New front door to the internet: Winning in the age of AI search - McKinsey
Half of consumers use AI-powered search today, and it stands to impact $750 billion in revenue by 2028–what is your strategy and activation plan for gen AI engine optimization? Hot on the heels of the ascent of social media as a means of researching and buying products, consumers are quickly defaulting to AI-powered search (through both AI-powered apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and Claude, and Google’s AI Overview) to guide their choices, evaluate brands, and increasingly to discover new ones. About 50 percent of Google searches already have AI summaries, a figure expected to rise to more than 75 percent by 2028, according to trend analysis. Half of consumers polled in a McKinsey survey now intentionally seek out AI-powered search engines, with a majority of users saying it’s the top digital source they use to make buying decisions.
How to shift AI from a shortcut to a learning partner - Rudy Gonzalez, University Business
This creates a significant challenge for universities: how can they integrate AI in ways that support learning rather than replace it? The solution is not simply adding AI tools to coursework. Instead, institutions need a clear strategy, strong governance and ongoing faculty development to guide how AI is used in the classroom. Higher education leaders must also foster a culture of change, one that guides students, faculty, and staff to embrace the transformative power of AI over its perceived threats or challenges.Do you have a chief AI officer? The first step in building a strategic framework involves establishing dedicated leadership to oversee AI implementation and use across campus.
https://universitybusiness.com/how-to-shift-ai-from-a-shortcut-to-a-learning-partner/
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground - Natasha Singer, New York Times
Cal State, the largest U.S. university system with 460,000 students, recently embarked on a public-private campaign — with corporate titans including Amazon, OpenAI and Nvidia — to position the school as the nation’s “first and largest A.I.-empowered” university. One central goal is to make generative A.I. tools, which can produce humanlike texts and images, available across the school’s 22 campuses. Cal State also wants to embed chatbots in teaching and learning, and prepare students for “increasingly A.I.-driven” careers.
Use of ChatGPT in nursing education: A mixed method research on student perceptions and experiential practice recommendations - Suna Uysal Yalçın & Yurdanur Dikmen, Science Direct
Our findings revealed three main themes: (1) ‘the importance of the physical environment in education,’ (2) ‘limitations of artificial intelligence -supported education,’ and (3) ‘the supporting role of artificial intelligence and the hybrid learning model.’
Conclusion
The use of artificial intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT, in nursing education had an impact.on students' perceptions and experiences of the learning process, highlighting the absence of elements such as social interaction, motivation and teacher support, which are typically provided through face-to-face education.
Tuesday, November 04, 2025
High-tech meets high-touch: Harnessing AI for the modern university - Joe Sallustio, University Business
Artificial intelligence isn’t just at the gates of higher education—it’s already inside, actively reshaping everything from enrollment processes to student support. The question is no longer whether to adopt AI—that ship has sailed. The real question is whether your institution will lead this transformation or get left behind by competitors who move faster. I’ve interviewed over 400 college/university presidents who validate this sentiment. Here’s the brutal truth I keep hearing from presidents: there’s a massive gap between AI for productivity and AI for learning.
Leading Off [Understanding Data Centers] - Alex Panas & Axel Karlsson, McKinsey
In today’s increasingly digital economy, the need for better, more powerful infrastructure to fuel gen AI, agentic AI, and other emerging tech advancements is growing quickly. Enter data centers, the facilities that house and run critical IT infrastructure such as servers, storage devices, and network equipment. Global demand for more data centers—and their data processing, storage, and distribution capabilities—is already high. This week, we look at how the need for more computing power to fuel innovation is driving a boom in data center development.
Monday, November 03, 2025
Deploying agentic AI with safety and security: A playbook for technology leaders - McKinsey
Autonomous AI agents present a new world of opportunity—and an array of novel and complex risks and vulnerabilities that require attention and action now. While agentic AI has the potential to deliver immense value, the technology also presents an array of new risks—introducing vulnerabilities that could disrupt operations, compromise sensitive data, or erode customer trust. Not only do AI agents provide new external entry points for would-be attackers, but because they are able to make decisions without human oversight, they also introduce novel internal risks. In cybersecurity terms, you might think of AI agents as “digital insiders”—entities that operate within systems with varying levels of privilege and authority. Just like their human counterparts, these digital insiders can cause harm unintentionally, through poor alignment, or deliberately if they become compromised. Already, 80 percent of organizations say they have encountered risky behaviors from AI agents, including improper data exposure and access to systems without authorization.3
Google’s Quantum Chip Just Broke Physics: Scientists Are Freaking Out - Julia McCoy, YouTube
The podcast highlights a monumental breakthrough on October 22nd, 2025, when Google's Willow quantum chip achieved "verifiable quantum advantage" by solving a problem that would take classical supercomputers longer than the age of the universe. More critically, the achievement is described as "breaking physics" because researchers demonstrated that quantum systems could exceed the limits set by the 200-year-old Carnot principle of thermodynamics, even converting quantum correlations into usable energy, which opens the door for molecular motors and medical nanobots. The chip's practical application, using a "quantum echoes algorithm" to analyze complex molecular structures, is expected to exponentially accelerate drug discovery and material science, leading the speaker to conclude that 2025 is the year quantum computing transitions from a scientific experiment into a foundational technology that will reshape every industry and necessitate a global race to adapt to this new era of computation [03:21]. [Summary assistance from Gemini 2.5 Flash]
Sunday, November 02, 2025
AI and Education: 10 ways to support or erode future skills resilience - Michael D. Watkins, IMD
AI can boost critical thinking or undermine it. Educators and talent leaders must learn to navigate this fine line. The use of generative AI among learners has increased by 66% over the last 12 months. More than 90% of young people in higher education are now using ChatGPT and other tools to research, summarize, and complete their work, while educators are increasingly leveraging the same tools to create and assess assignments. AI poses both genuine benefits and very real hazards to the education and development of our future talent. Key to its responsible use is designing AI integration that enhances – without substituting – the development of relevant core and emerging skills; human skills that will be critical to organizations in our AI-powered future.
Bridging the Skills Gap: How Online Training Is Reshaping Workforce Readiness - Stuart Gentle, OnRec
Employers are struggling to find candidates equipped with the practical and technical skills required for modern roles. At the same time, professionals are seeking ways to remain competitive and relevant in evolving job markets. That’s where digital learning platforms come into play, providing flexible, accessible, and industry-aligned training opportunities. For instance, many aspiring professionals turn to AtHomePrep license exam help to prepare for certification exams and career advancement. These programs not only make education more accessible but also help bridge the gap between education and employability in today’s rapidly changing economy.
Saturday, November 01, 2025
AI is a test higher education can’t afford to fail - Sam Dreyfus, University Business
\At its best, AI has the potential to:
Act as a tutor, adapting to each learner’s pace
Support educators by freeing them from routine tasks
Uncover inefficiencies that redirect resources toward students
Prepare graduates for a workforce where AI literacy will be as essential as computer literacy was a generation ago
But potential does not fulfill itself. If we have technology that can increase engagement, strengthen retention and give students a clearer path to success, we have a responsibility to use it.
A generative artificial intelligence-enhanced multiagent approach to empowering collaborative problem solving across different learning domains - Lanqin Zheng, Zhe Shi, Lei Gao -Science Direct
Collaborative problem-solving skills are among the most important skills in the 21st century. However, learners exhibit significant deficiencies in terms of their collaborative problem-solving skills. Emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have given rise to transformative opportunities to facilitate collaborative problem solving through the introduction of adaptive learning mechanisms in educational settings. The results indicated that compared with chatbot-based and traditional approaches, the GenAI-enhanced multiagent approach had more significant effects on learning achievements, knowledge elaboration, and collaborative problem-solving performance and skills. The implications of these findings are discussed in depth with the goal of advancing the use of GenAI to empower collaborative problem solving.
Friday, October 31, 2025
The Big Rethink: An agenda for thriving in the agentic age - Quantum Black by McKinsey
Has there been a technology innovation in recent memory that has engendered more wildly divergent thinking than agentic AI? We’re hard-pressed to think of one. Depending on who you talk to or what you read, AI agents—systems based on gen AI foundation models that can act in the world and execute multistep processes—will lead to a utopia of productivity. Or displace huge swaths of the labor force. Or lead to robots running the world. Or provide everyone with a superpower. Or all of the above. To prepare for this uncertain future, executives will need to strip away the emotion from the conversation. Promises are everywhere; critical thinking, however, is in short supply. The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier: The potential of agentic AI certainly appears significant, especially as the technology continues its torrid pace of improvement. It is poised to transform knowledge work and reshape the nature of competition.
AI-powered teaching and learning for all Microsoft 365 education customers - MikeTholfsen, Microsoft TechCommunity
In our main Microsoft Education blog this morning, we announced the details of how Microsoft Education is bringing even more value to all EDU customers with Microsoft 365, including a new set of capabilities designed for relevant and powerful use by educators and students. These features will be included in all of the academic SKUs (A SKUs) at no additional cost, and many will be rolling out starting today, while others will be rolling out later this year and into early next year.
Topics:
AI for educators at no additional cost
AI for learners at no additional cost
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Microsoft 365 LTI (LMS integration updates)
Microsoft 365 Copilot (add-on required)
Learning Accelerator updates
Learning Zone on the Copilot+ PC – public preview now available
Minecraft EU updates
We’re also introducing an academic offering for Microsoft 365 Copilot in education at $18 (USD) per user per month for educators, staff, and students ages 13 and older starting in December 2025.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Universities at a turning point in an era of AI insecurity - Amber Wang, University World News
As artificial intelligence and global insecurity challenge university leaders worldwide, it is more important than ever for universities to remain true to their fundamental principles, according to the President of the American Council on Education (ACE), Ted Mitchell. “Independence, intellectual inquiry and academic excellence, inclusion, [and] the expectation that education is a good to be consumed by all of our citizens – these are things that we can’t compromise [on],” he said via video link to a conference of global university leaders of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) this week in Seoul, South Korea.
7 skills Harvard says will keep you employed in the age of ChatGPT - Times of India
Generative AI is transforming workplaces. Harvard research highlights seven key human skills that will keep workers valuable. These include critical thinking, AI fluency, complex problem-solving, communication, lifelong learning, ethical judgment and experimentation. Mastering these abilities will allow individuals to effectively leverage AI tools and navigate the evolving job market. Employers will prioritise these durable human capabilities.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Universities Teaching Wisdom Skills 2030 - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
Virtually all aspects and positions at universities will be touched by the AI transformation. The changes will come more rapidly than many of us in higher education are accustomed to or with which we are comfortable. In large part, the speed will be demanded by employers of our learners and by competition among universities. Change will also strike directly at the nature of what and how we teach. The higher-level skills humans will need as described by the Global Skills Development Council are different from many of the career-specific skills that universities now provide in short form certificates and certification programs. Rather, I suggest that these broad, deep skills are ones that we might best describe as “wisdom” skills. They are not vocational, but instead, deeper skills related to overall maturity and sophistication in leadership, vision and insight. They include thinking critically, thinking creatively, applying ethical reasoning, and adaptive collaboration with both humans and agentic AI.
What’s Your AI-dentity? - Bloomberg
The momentous decisions the world faces about AI’s role in our lives offer outcomes that seemingly range from universal enlightenment to mass extinction. How do you see AI shaping our future? More importantly, how do you want it to shape our future? Are you an Accelerationist? A Pragmatist? A Doomer? Take our quiz to find out which one of six different AI-dentities most closely resembles your views, how your answers affected your result and who your real-life fellow travelers might be.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
EDUCAUSE Action Plan Looks 10 Years Ahead at GenAI for Education - Abby Sourwine, GovTech
In a new action plan, EDUCAUSE outlines skills, ethics and collaboration strategies to guide effective use and implementation of generative artificial intelligence on college campuses for the next decade. With artificial intelligence advancing at breakneck speed, a new document from the nonprofit EDUCAUSE aims to give colleges and universities proactive steps to meet an uncertain future of teaching and learning with generative AI, rather than simply reacting to technological change. The report, 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Building Skills and Literacy for Teaching with Generative AI, is the latest in EDUCAUSE’s long-running Horizon series and outlines how educators and administrators can build skills and literacy to teach with generative AI now and in the future.
‘Urgent need’ for more AI literacy in higher education, report says - Anna McKie, Research Professional News
There is an “urgent need” to improve AI literacy among both staff and students at British universities, according to a report from the Higher Education Policy Institute. The report takes a broad view on how AI is reshaping higher education, including institutional strategy, teaching and assessment, research, and professional services. Wendy Hall, an internet pioneer and director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton, and Giles Carden, chief strategy officer at Southampton, state in the report’s foreword that “simply acknowledging AI’s presence is insufficient”. “Active, informed engagement and a structured approach to skill development are paramount to ensure universities remain relevant and effective,” they say.
Monday, October 27, 2025
Realizing the full potential of AI agents - McKinsey
The story of agentic AI is still unfolding. The majority of CEOs have yet to see bottom-line value from AI agents. But there’s no question that the pace and potential scope of change are breathtaking. While we’re waiting for the technology to fully mature, CEOs can take advantage of this “trough of disillusionment” to understand the implications for how their companies operate, make some essential decisions, and get a jump on their competitors. A year into the agentic AI revolution, one lesson is clear: It takes hard work to do it well. We recently dug into more than 50 agentic AI builds we’ve supported, as well as dozens of others in the marketplace. Six lessons have emerged. Here’s one that may surprise you: Agents aren’t always the answer.
https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/email/shortlist/272/2025-10-17b.html
Concern and excitement about AI - Jacob Poushter, Moira Fagan and Manolo Corichi, Pew Research Center
A median of 34% of adults across 25 countries are more concerned than excited about the increased use of artificial intelligence in daily life. A median of 42% are equally concerned and excited, and 16% are more excited than concerned. Older adults, women, people with less education and those who use the internet less often are particularly likely to be more concerned than excited. Roughly half of adults in the U.S., Italy, Australia, Brazil and Greece say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. But in 15 of the 25 countries polled, the largest share of people are equally concerned and excited. In no country surveyed is the largest share more excited than concerned about the increasing use of AI in daily life.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Sharing Resources, Best Practices in AI - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
While generative artificial intelligence tools have proliferated in education and workplace settings, not all tools are free or accessible to students and staff, which can create equity gaps regarding who is able to participate and learn new skills. To address this gap, San Diego State University leaders created an equitable AI alliance in partnership with the University of California, San Diego, and the San Diego Community College District. Together, the institutions work to address affordability and accessibility concerns for AI solutions, as well as share best practices, resources and expertise. In the latest episode of Voices of Student Success, host Ashley Mowreader speaks with James Frazee, San Diego State University’s chief information officer, about the alliance and SDSU’s approach to teaching AI skills to students.
3 Leadership Micro-Credentials Are Redefining The Modern Career Path -Cheryl Robinson, Forbes
Traditional degrees are yielding to skills-based hiring, making micro-credentials crucial for professionals. These short, focused programs, offered by universities and tech platforms, efficiently equip leaders with vital skills like digital fluency and strategic agility. They address the urgent need for reskilling by 2030, enabling continuous learning and proving capabilities without lengthy academic commitments, though standardization is still evolving.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
About 1 in 5 U.S. workers now use AI in their job, up since last year - Luona Lin, Pew Research
As the abilities of artificial intelligence (AI) tools advance rapidly, a growing share of Americans say they are using the technology in their jobs. Today, 21% of U.S. workers say at least some of their work is done with AI, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in September. That share is up from 16% roughly a year ago. Most American workers (65%) still say they don’t use AI much or at all in their job.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Quantum record smashed as scientists build mammoth 6,000-qubit system — and it works at room temperature - Tristan Greene, Live Science
Scientists at Caltech have conducted a record-breaking experiment in which they synchronized 6,100 atoms in a quantum array. This research could lead to more robust, fault-tolerant quantum computers. In the experiment, they used paired neutral atoms as the quantum bits (qubits) in a system and held them in a state of “superposition” to conduct quantum computations. To achieve this, the scientists split a laser beam into 12,000 "laser tweezers" which together held the 6,100 qubits. As described in a new study published Sept. 24 in the journal Nature, the scientists not only set a new record for the number of atomic qubits placed in a single array — they also extended the length of "superposition" coherency.
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Google shares a massive list of 1,000+ generative AI use cases - Aditya Tiwari, Neowin
Generative AI will continue to expand its reach whether you want it or not. While the race was unofficially started by OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google has become one of the leaders in the space with its Gemini-branded products and services. For some, generative AI exposure might still be limited to a chatbot or a tool that converts their image into a video. But the tech has many possibilities, ranging from AI pharmacists, vacation planners, coding agents, and autonomous driving, to AI that can browse the web for you. Google has published a lengthy list of 1001 use cases of generative AI across different sectors like Automotive, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Business, Hospitality, Travel, and Media.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
A systematic review on AI-enhanced pedagogies in higher education in the Global SouthProvisionally accepted - Gloria KhozaNomfundo and Freda Van Der Walt, Frontiers in Education
Artificial intelligence is gaining traction in higher education for its ability to simulate human intelligence and support learning processes. This systematic review investigates how artificial intelligence-enhanced teaching approaches are being applied in higher education institutions across the Global South. The study draws on peer-reviewed literature identified through a structured search of SCOPUS and Web of Science databases, using clearly defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The findings reveal that most applications focus on improving technical efficiency and administrative functions, while pedagogical integration remains limited. Key barriers include inadequate infrastructure, unequal access to digital tools, limited faculty preparedness, and ethical considerations.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1667884/abstract
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