AI in Higher Education
Monday, 14 September 2026
What crossed the desk today, gathered from 58 sources.
Expanding OER with GenAI
Generative artificial intelligence can expand the reach of open educational resources, but educators and institutions need a clear framework for licensing, disclosure, and responsible use.
Advancing AI Literacy: A Faculty Course Refresh Institute at Indiana Wesleyan University
Redesigning learning experiences, not just adding tools, can build faculty confidence and develop students’ critical, ethical, and applied AI literacy.
The Role of Faculty in the University of the Future
In the age of AI, the true future of higher education lies not in replacing faculty but in freeing them to do what only humans can—build meaningful relationships, cultivate wisdom, and guide students through the ethical and intellectual challenges machines cannot navigate.
When AI Meets Data: The Promise and the Pressure of Bringing AI into Higher Education Systems
The implications of AI for data governance and security don’t often grab the headlines, but the work of incorporating this technology into institutional culture is vital, complex, and illuminating.
The University, the Chatbot, and a Call for a New Mission for Higher Education
In the age of artificial intelligence, higher education institutions must move beyond simply transmitting knowledge and instead prioritize holistic human development, integrating mental health, social-emotional learning, and ethical reasoning into academic structures to prepare students for meaningful lives and…
AI-Powered Pedagogy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Teaching Tools
Accessible artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help educators streamline course development, integrate evidence-based teaching strategies, and optimize workflows for more efficient, individualized instruction.
The Paradox of AI Assistance: Better Results, Worse Thinking
A student reflects on how generative artificial intelligence is reshaping learning and cognitive development, urging colleges and universities to guide students toward responsible uses of AI to preserve critical thinking skills.
Three Years In: Reflections and Considerations for the Next Chapter of AI in Higher Education
Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform higher education by connecting student experiences, improving operations, and enhancing outcomes. But unlocking its full potential will require better data integration, deeper cross-campus collaboration, well-defined ROI measures, increased environmental…
From Personalized to Precision Learning: Unlocking the Next Transformation in Higher Education
Colleges and universities can leapfrog from personalized to N-of-1 precision learning by modernizing their data architecture, building dynamic learner profiles, and adopting computed curriculum. This signals a paradigm shift from the one-size-fits-all model of learning that characterizes most of higher education to an…
Dialogue at Scale: AI, Soft Skills, and the Future of Assessment
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can transform higher education by enabling guided engagement at scale, fostering active and dialogic learning, and expanding access to personalized tutoring. Institutions that harness these capabilities can redesign teaching and assessment to thrive in the age of AI.
2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 #9: AI-Enabled Efficiencies and Growth
It’s time for institutions to find pathways for doing less with less —enabling leaders and staff to pursue their most important work in healthier, more efficient, and more meaningful ways. AI-Enabled Efficiencies and Growth is issue #9 in the 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10.
2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 #5: Knowledge Management for Safer AI
Knowledge management can help institutional teams become more familiar with their enterprise artificial intelligence tools while also restricting those tools' access where needed. Knowledge Management for Safer AI is issue #5 in the 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10.
2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 #2: The Human Edge of AI
Increasingly, artificial intelligence is becoming a competency that rests in the hands of each individual person—an individual capability rather than just, or even primarily, an institutional one. The Human Edge of AI is issue #2 in the 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10.
Beyond Tool or Threat: GenAI and the Challenge It Poses to Higher Education
Generative artificial intelligence isn't just a new tool—it's a catalyst forcing the higher education profession to reimagine its purpose, values, and future.
The AI Tsunami Is Here: Reinventing Education for the Age of AI
In the age of artificial intelligence, higher education must move beyond content delivery toward interactionalism—a human-centered approach to learning that fosters collaboration, creativity, adaptability, feedback, and well-being. This article series will explore this system redesign in-depth, beginning with teaching…
Flesh, Algorithm, and a Dialogue: An Autoethnographic Reflexive Inquiry into Knowledge Labour in the Age of AI
This paper reports an autoethnographic reflexive inquiry that treats a real human-AI dialogue as "fieldwork." Using the "cognitive mirror" method—treating the large language model as a statistical reflexive device of human knowledge sedimented in training corpora—the study explores the deep dilemmas of academic…
StarMate Caregiver Feedback Pilot: Feasibility and Measurement Pilot of a Multilingual Survey Evaluating an AI Navigation Tool for the Autism Transition-to-Adulthood Community
PI: Dr. Lu Shi Student Researcher: Julia Kenny
Assessment Instruments for AI Literacy in Nursing Populations and Their Psychometric Properties: A Scoping Review
AI tools are entering nursing practice faster than most nurses and nursing students are prepared for. In response, researchers have begun developing instruments to measure AI literacy and related constructs such as AI competence, AI readiness, AI self-efficacy, and ethical awareness of AI in nursing populations. The…
Artificial Intelligence and Behavioural Approaches to Human Body Donation: A Scoping Review of Determinants, Predictive Methods, Interventions, Policy and Implementation
Human body donation is an important component of medical education, anatomical research and surgical skills training. Cadaveric dissection provides medical students with direct exposure to human anatomy, while donated human bodies may also support postgraduate surgical education and procedural training. Despite its…
Governing Artificial Intelligence in East African Higher Education: A Comparative Policy Readiness Assessment of Eight EAC Partner States
Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is advancing in East African higher education faster than the policy, regulatory, quality-assurance, and institutional systems needed to govern it. This study compares the governance readiness of the eight East African Community (EAC) Partner States and develops an…
Ethical GenAI in TEL Research and Beyond
Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly present across the research cycle, from drafting text to supporting data analysis, peer review, and communication. While a growing body of literature quantifies how researchers use GenAI, little is known about how researchers evaluate its use from an ethical lenses — particularly…
AFT, UFT and Microsoft announce ‘National AI Safety & Privacy Standard’ for schools to protect students, families and educators
AFT President Randi Weingarten, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith today announced a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard” establishing legally enforceable protections to ensure the safety of students, families and educators. The post AFT, UFT…
The Impact of Robotics, Digital Ecosystems and Artificial Intelligence on Physician Assistant Practice: A Scoping Review Protocol of Practice Implications and Educational Strategies
This project is a scoping review examining how robotics, digital health ecosystems, and artificial intelligence are influencing Physician Assistant practice. It will map current evidence on changes to clinical roles, workflows, competencies, professional responsibilities, and leadership opportunities across healthcare…
The Agentic Professor: Exploring GenAI-Supported Futures in Higher Education
The Agentic Professor is a construct that helps colleges and universities explore how scalable, long-term personalized instructional support could reshape teaching, assessment, and the role of faculty.
Beyond Alignment: Regulatory Curriculum Coherence in Rwanda’s Reforming Higher Education System
Higher-education curricula are increasingly expected to reconcile disciplinary knowledge, employability, measurable competencies, quality assurance, digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), professional relevance, and wider public purposes. Yet these demands are commonly regulated through separate policy…
Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative AI: Developing a Quality Assurance Framework for Rwandan Higher Education
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) unsettles a central quality-assurance assumption in higher education: that a submitted artefact is a sufficiently trustworthy proxy for the knowledge, judgement and capability attributed to the student who submits it. This original framework-development study reconceptualises…
AI may be denting computer science graduates’ job prospects, UK data shows
Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in finance AI may be warping the job prospects for students in the previously high-demand subjects of computer science and economics, according to a detailed look into the careers of recent UK graduates. Data obtained for the…
Hubungan AI Attachment dengan Social Loneliness pada Mahasiswa Pengguna Voice Chat AI
This project examines the relationship between AI attachment and social loneliness among university students who use voice chat AI. It focuses on understanding how psychological attachment to AI may be associated with students’ experiences of social loneliness, particularly in the context of AI companionship.
The landscape of gateway STEM student success and teaching practices at R1 institutions in the United States post-COVID and post-AI
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Beyond Academic Support, Artificial Intelligence as a Coping Resource Among University Students–A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Psychological Distress, AI Attachment, and AI Dependency
This registration documents a cross-sectional study examining the associations between psychological distress, AI attachment, and AI dependency among university students. The study included 497 students who completed an online survey assessing psychological distress, AI attachment, AI dependency, and patterns of AI…
Scaffolded Guidance in AI-Assisted Python Learning: A Cluster Quasi-Experimental Field Study on Prompt Guidance Strength in Medical Students' Data Science Education
Anonymized dataset and analysis scripts for a cluster quasi-experimental field study examining the effects of AI guidance intensity (free inquiry vs. structured collaboration vs. guided scaffolding) in AI-assisted Python learning among medical students.
Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree?
Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdouts Futureproofing your career with an AI-resistant degree is a tough ask, says Charlie Ball, an expert on graduate employment for Jisc, the UK’s higher education digital, data and technology…