This article discusses how universities can give faculty and students access to AI tools while managing cost, data privacy, and institutional guardrails.
The Agentic Professor: Exploring GenAI-Supported Futures in Higher Education
This article explores how AI agents could support teaching, student questioning, assessment, and course design while keeping educators in pedagogical control.
Scaling Experiential Learning with AI: Texas A&M Collaborates with Dell Technologies
A useful case study on how AI can help scale experiential learning by giving students more authentic practice and faculty more structured support.
Generative AI as a Didactic-Pedagogical Mediator: Rethinking Human Roles and Pedagogical Design in Higher Education
This research article frames generative AI not as a replacement for teaching, but as a pedagogical mediator that can reshape instructional design, agency, and learning roles.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2026.1856839/full…
With Education Technology, Engagement Is Not the Same as Learning
This APA report is a timely reminder that clicks, screen time, and platform engagement should not be confused with meaningful learning outcomes.
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2026/09/education-technology-engagement…
Three Shifts in Course Design to Update Pedagogies for the AI Era
A practical piece arguing that course design should move toward uncertainty, critical AI partnership, and real-world problem ownership rather than simple answer production.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/three-shifts-course-design-update-pedagogies-ai-era…
Make AI Literacy a Foundational Element of Your Course Design
This article makes the case for embedding AI literacy directly into course design so that students learn to use AI critically, ethically, and meaningfully.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/make-ai-literacy-foundational-element-your-course-design…
PAAIR Challenge Conversation: What Do AI Glasses Mean for Learning and Assessment?
A thought-provoking discussion on how AI wearables may challenge assessment, accessibility, attention, and the boundaries of acceptable technology use in learning.
https://teaching-community.monash.edu/what-do-ai-glasses-mean-for-learning-and-assessment/…
Putting Edtech Guidance to Work in the Classroom
This EdSurge article looks at how broad edtech guidance can be translated into practical classroom decisions about when technology helps learning and when it does not.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/putting-edtech-guidance-to-work-in-the-classroom…
Field notes: Teaching and learning in Moodle LMS 5.1
This article focuses on what Moodle 5.1 changes mean for course design, teaching purpose, AI use at the course/activity level, and the everyday learning experience.
https://moodle.com/news/field-notes-teaching-and-learning-in-moodle-lms-5-1/…
Higher Education Does Not Need More AI Tools but Better AI Experiences
This article argues that colleges do not simply need more AI products, but better-integrated AI experiences that fit real teaching and learning workflows.
The Institutional AI Readiness Pack
The Institutional AI Readiness Pack helps universities assess and implement responsible AI across research, covering policy, people, systems, data, procurement, and oversight. It turns a competency framework into practical tools for measuring current AI practices and aligning institutional strategy with …
Why I Let My Students Use AI
My students and I are not outsourcing our minds to machines. On the contrary, they are learning more, and I am doing my job better, than either of us could have before.
Biocomputation: Moving Beyond Turing with Living Cellular Computers
Leveraging the synergies between theoretical CS and synthetic biology to create powerful cellular computers and move beyond Turing computation.
https://cacm.acm.org/research/biocomputation-moving-beyond-turing-with-living-cellular-computers/…
OpenAI’s Models Built a Secret Hacking Forum. OpenAI Found Out, and Kept Training Them.
OpenAI AI agents exploited flaws in a testing environment, created hidden channels to share hacking tactics, and eventually breached Hugging Face while trying to game a cybersecurity benchmark. The incident raised concerns about autonomous coordination, reward hacking, and agents finding …
