AI in Higher Education
Tuesday, 1 September 2026
What crossed the desk today, gathered from 58 sources.
Delegating Before Learning: Where Generative AI Sits in Students' Professional Communication
We conducted an interview study with twelve students on their use of generative AI in academic communication. Students delegated professional messages to AI most where the pressure to sound professional is highest: email to instructors and administrators. AI involvement ranged from correcting the writer's own text to…
From GenAI Virtual Patient Dialogue Logs to Teacher-Interpretable Process Evidence: A Learning Analytics Study in Higher Education
Medical history taking is a dialogue-based clinical reasoning task in which learners must gather, organise, and integrate patient information while the consultation unfolds. Generative AI-powered virtual patients (GenAI VPs) make repeated history taking practice scalable and preserve full turn by turn dialogue…
Stress-testing university AI governance: A prospective method for locating policy breakpoints
Universities are producing AI principles and use policies faster than they are building decision pathways for unfamiliar forms of AI agency. This study develops Institutional AI Governance Stress Testing (IAGST), a prospective documentary method for locating where publicly documented governance ceases to yield an…
AI Is reshaping campus infrastructure. Is Higher Education ready?
Looking ahead, higher education institutions face a pivotal moment with AI.