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There is no shortage of opinions or perspectives on AI and its impact on education. As we get more granular in our understanding of risks and possibilities, new possibilities and risks emerge. Not even necessarily new, but more defined. As I write this, I realize the first paragraph isn’t great.
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"Teachers in the U.S. spend an average of seven hours per week on lesson planning alone, plus another three for students with diverse needs. That’s before grading, parent emails, IEP documentation, and the administrative overhead that has made teaching among the highest-burnout professions in the country."
"AI is saving teachers meaningful time. Whether that eases burnout depends on where the time goes."
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May 21, 10:57 AM
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The rise of artificial intelligence is prompting college students to second-guess their career paths
"College students are switching majors in due to AI concerns, with roughly 70% viewing the technology as a threat to their job prospects. Many are pivoting toward majors emphasizing critical thinking and interpersonal skills."
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May 21, 10:53 AM
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AI won't fix a broken L&D system. High-maturity teams succeed by fixing content architecture and operating models first.
"AI In Learning Is Not A Tool Upgrade But A System Shift...AI doesn't transform a broken system. It exposes and accelerates its limitations."
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May 21, 10:49 AM
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If we continue to prioritise memorisation in an age of wall-to-wall information, we send the wrong message to our students and employers. Michelle Seref offers advice on assessment that builds critical thinking skills
"The rapid rise of generative AI hasn’t made assessment obsolete, but it has made its misalignment impossible to ignore. The real question is no longer what students know, but how they think, decide, adapt and apply judgement. Yet many assessments still measure recall rather than application."
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May 20, 11:25 AM
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A comprehensive guide to online teaching strategies covering preparation, procedures, communication, and practices for effective online learning.
"By preparing to teach, and through planning and preparation, we can implement procedures and practices that build and strengthen online relationships and facilitate student success."
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May 20, 11:19 AM
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"Keri Rodrigues, a mother of five boys, knows the value of screens. For her boys, four of whom receive school accommodations, screens serve a practical purpose at school."
"Fueled by distress over the mental health impacts of too much screen time, lawmakers have begun to pass device bans and other restrictions for schools, in a rising “techlash” across state capitols."
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These strategies have helped me get consistent work as an adjunct professor.
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May 19, 11:07 AM
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How to design governance that is serious and protective without becoming brittle or performative.
"The challenge is not simply that AI is changing quickly. It is that institutions are being asked to govern systems they do not fully understand, in environments that keep changing, under political and market pressure, with uneven information and limited administrative capacity."
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May 19, 11:00 AM
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Without a coordinated strategy that involves multiple academic and administrative units across the entire campus, colleges risk wasting resources, duplicating efforts, and ultimately failing to deliver on the promise of deploying technology to improve learning and operations.
"[E]ducation has the highest AI usage rate of any industry, with nearly nine in 10 education institutions globally reporting that students, instructors, and campus leaders are using generative AI."
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May 19, 10:54 AM
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This article redefines what true eLearning engagement for meaningful digital learning means, and offers tips on building it.
"Real engagement starts long before a learner ever opens a course. It starts in how that course is built."
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May 19, 10:51 AM
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"Across higher education, artificial intelligence is now embedded in everyday academic work, from early research to final drafts. For many students, it has become a default starting point.
The urgent question is not whether students use AI, but how they use it—specifically, whether these tools are reinforcing learning or bypassing the cognitive work that leads to it."
"As artificial intelligence reshapes how we learn, work and create, the essential skills students need are not disappearing—they are evolving"
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The 2026 EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Horizon Report highlights how artificial intelligence, enrollment pressures, policy shifts, and sustainability
"AI increasingly complicates traditional assessments; institutions are moving toward authentic, process‑based demonstrations of learning."
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May 21, 11:09 AM
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"Simmering student fear and anxiety over how artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the job market—and humanity—came to a boiling point during some commencement ceremonies this month."
"Nearly one-third of colleges students feel “nervous” or “anxious” about AI’s impact on their future career."
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May 21, 11:06 AM
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Evidence from Florida, home of the first statewide mandate
"70 percent of school principals—and 81 percent of middle and high school principals—believe cellphone bans have a positive impact on school climate. However, bans are less popular with students."
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May 21, 10:55 AM
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As AI becomes a bigger part of the learning experience, institutions are challenged, not just to train students, but to develop learning systems around it.
"Much of higher education remains organized around assumptions that are increasingly misaligned with how learning occurs or capability is demonstrated."
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May 21, 10:50 AM
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This article explores the three roles in L&D, and why modern professionals need to think across all three to create meaningful impact.
"One of the biggest limitations in modern L&D is not a lack of tools or technology. It is the tendency to approach learning from only one perspective."
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May 21, 10:46 AM
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In this week’s Voices of Student Success episode, The Rithm Project’s Alison Lee explores whether AI is filling critical gaps in student support—or deepening isolation on college campuses. As institutions nationwide struggle to meet growing mental health needs, more students are turning to AI for comfort, connection and advice. Now, colleges and universities are being forced to confront a once-unthinkable question: What happens when students begin opening up to AI chatbots instead of people?
"[W]hen we asked about what we call the gateway moment—the moment they started talking to AI about emotional or relational support—every single time it was about an acute moment of need."
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A BBC investigation revealed a simple way to get AI chatbots to spit out misinformation. Google and other AI companies are now trying to fix the problem.
"Last week, Google updated its spam policies to officially confirm that attempts to manipulate AI responses are against the company's rules."
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May 20, 11:17 AM
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A new report ranks Gen Z's top 100 dream colleges, preferred employers, and the values shaping their career decisions--including views on AI.
"The percentage of students “not using AI at all” decreased from 36 percent in 2024 to 6 percent in 2026. Half (49 percent) use it on a daily or weekly basis."
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"We’ve all lived a version of this story. You start small — asking AI to refine an email. Then something a little harder, like writing a function in a language you barely know. Then a whole feature. Eventually you give it access to your files, your calendar, your codebase. At first it feels like an intern. Then it feels like a colleague. At some point, it even feels like the expert in the room. At first, this feels incredible. A month of work compresses into a few days."
"We’ve been focusing a lot on how to make AI better. We should also talk about the other side: is there a way to make users better through interactions with AI."
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AI usage has reached 17.8% among the world's working-age population, while adoption remains far higher in developed economies than in the Global South.
"The growing gap between developed and developing economies shows that AI's benefits are not spreading evenly, according to the company's data. Microsoft found a 12.1 percentage point difference in adoption between the Global North and Global South, a divide that appears to be widening as infrastructure, language support and economic barriers continue to shape who can use these tools."
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What are the differences between a quiz vs. test vs. exam in eLearning? Read this guide to explore when you should use each method.
"One of the most common mistakes is using quizzes, tests, and exams as if they serve the same purpose...Each assessment type should match a specific learning objective."
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"Micro-credentials — short, skills-focused programs granting a verified certificate or digital badge — are gaining ground in fast-changing sectors like tech, digital marketing, AI, cybersecurity, and data analytics."
"As technologies evolve faster than universities can adapt, workers and employers want cheaper, targeted ways to build job-ready skills"
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"At the end of 2025, almost nine in ten organizations surveyed by McKinsey in The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation reported using AI in at least one business function. Ninety-four percent reported they were not yet seeing significant value from those investments.
That gap, examined in “Where AI will create value and where it won’t” in the April 2026 issue of McKinsey Quarterly, is not an adoption problem. It is a framing problem. Most companies are using AI to do their existing work faster, when the durable returns require a different kind of work entirely."
"Productivity is the floor of AI’s value, not the ceiling. New McKinsey research on where the durable returns actually live, and what that means for teams deciding what to build."
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Training providers are under enormous pressure to integrate AI, but sometimes getting it right means slowing down and asking, why?
"For workforce organizations on their own AI implementation journeys, our main advice is this: don’t wait for the perfect tool or the perfect study. Start with a clear theory of change, measure what you can, take adoption seriously, and create the conditions for honest learning."
"Faced with generative AI in our classrooms, the obvious response for us is to influence students to adopt the helpful uses of AI while persuading them to avoid the harmful ones. Our problem is that we don’t know how to do that."