AI in Higher Education
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
What crossed the desk today, gathered from 58 sources.
Teaching Clinical Reasoning in Postgraduate Medical Education: Educational Approaches, Assessment Methods, and the Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence — A Scoping Review
This scoping review aims to map and characterize existing approaches to the teaching and assessment of clinical reasoning in postgraduate medical education, evaluate the outcomes that have been studied, and explore the emerging role of artificial intelligence in clinical reasoning education. The review will include…
NYC schools ban student use of generative AI in classrooms through middle school
According to NYC officials, Mamdani’s moratorium represents “the most expansive student-facing AI moratorium in the nation.”
Artificial intelligence-assisted grading in higher education: Rubric alignment, accuracy, and faculty judgment [White paper].
Generative AI in higher education assessment: "Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Grading in Higher Education: Rubric Alignment, Accuracy, and Faculty Judgment." Drawing from my experiences teaching graduate-level IT and research courses at the University of Houston, this paper examines the crucial gap between an AI's…
USyd workers strike over AI
University of Sydney NTEU branch members will strike for 24 hours today as part of planned industrial action due to stalled enterprise agreement talks regarding job security and the university’s guidelines on AI implementation.
ParaStudent: Closing the Sim2Real Gap in User Simulators for AI Tutor Evaluation
Evaluating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tutor feedback before deployment requires anticipating student engagement, typically assessed through real interaction data. We introduce ParaStudent, a fine-tuning framework for simulating novice programming revisions to support AI tutor evaluation. Compared with prompted…
Now Is the Time to Plan and Prepare Your Students and Colleagues on Workplace AI
Now Is the Time to Plan and Prepare Your Students and Colleagues on Workplace AI jdimaggio@upcea.edu Wed, 09/02/2026 - 03:00 AM If ever there was a most important era in which we must emphasize discourse with our students, it is today. We are in the midst of major changes in our culture and society as a whole…
NYC bans AI use for students until they reach high school
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a new policy today that will ban younger schoolchildren from using AI in classrooms. The one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, will impact about 600,000 public school students in 2-K through eighth grade and is being introduced alongside…
Your institution’s AI strategy needs instructional designers
Higher education institutions are investing significant time in selecting AI tools, developing policies, and encouraging faculty experimentation. Yet one of the most important parts of an institutional AI strategy may be receiving far less attention: the people who help educators connect technology to the realities of…