EdTech: The New Normal

Colleges are now closing at a pace of one per week. What happens to the students?” Jon Marcus asked in a recent Hechinger Report piece. It’s not a rhetorical question — and it doesn’t have an easy answer. As educators, we’ve read the headlines, seen the numbers, and felt the pressure. Undergraduate enrollment is down. Student confidence is eroding. The enrollment cliff looms. 

Microcredentials have the potential to help workers and employers through an unstable labour market if used intentionally and in partnership with industry.

AI slop–low-quality, often fake AI-generated content – is proliferating at a staggering rate. So what do you and your students need to know to combat it?

A new collection of essays, AI and the Future of Universities (HEPI Report 193) edited by Dr Giles Carden and Josh Freeman, brings together leading voices from universities, industry and policy. The collection comes at a point when Artificial Intelligence (AI) is projected to have a profound and transformative impact on virtually every sector of society and the economy, driving changes that are both beneficial and challenging. The various pieces look at how AI is reshaping higher education – from strategy, teaching and assessment to research and professional services.

Voice-enabled technologies promise to revolutionize learning, yet these systems often fail to understand their primary users – children.

In praise of educational complexity and those who revel in it

Rising educator confidence in CTE and growing urgency for AI tools that build--not bypass--students’ essential skills.

Higher education still holds the potential to combine intellectual depth with career readiness, but traditional approaches to teaching and learning no longer suffice.

So how can ordinary people resist a war fought with invisible weapons? The answer isn’t paranoia. It’s discipline.

When Deloitte consultants outsourced thinking to ChatGPT, they produced a $291,000 disaster. Students will fail the same way unless we teach dialogic engagement with AI.

Interview: philosopher Bas Haring and how he annoyed a lot of people with a provocative recent experiment.

"There's a shift happening in personal computing thanks to the rise of on-device AI. That's comparable to previous computing revolutions including the cloud itself, and mobile computing. Upendra Kulkarni, VP of product management at Qualcomm Technologies Inc ,  likens it to the shift he saw as PCs replaced mainframes."