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• Universities would prefer not to. - Hollis Robbins, Hollis Robbins Annectdotal
  Four years after ChatGPT caught so many by surprise, the primary role of higher education seems to be slowing down the public’s transition to the AI era. For many faculty, this is a win. For those focused on the future, this is the biggest institutional failure since the Victorian Post Office, with its monopoly on […]
• How to Build an Education Platform That Supports People Through Different Stages of Life - Danny Wesley, Hackernoon
  Despite the age difference, people are solving a similar problem: they are trying to move to the next level of what they are capable of. For a school student, that might mean getting into university. For a university student, access to the tools for a first set of professional skills. For an adult, a career […]
• AI-Enabled Ghost Student Fraud: How IT Leaders Are Fighting Back - Adam Stone, EdTech
  Generative artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in ghost student fraud. Learn how layered identity verification, behavioral analytics and AI-driven pattern detection help higher ed IT leaders stop fraud rings before disbursement. First, there was the zombie college scam. Now it’s “ghost students,” bad actors leveraging artificial intelligence to create fake identities and enroll imaginary […]
• How instructional design shapes higher-order thinking among higher education students in generative artificial intelligence-supported teaching contexts - Yujia Chen & Jinling Wang, Nature
  Against the backdrop of the widespread integration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) into higher education, previous research has yielded divergent findings regarding its relationship with students’ higher-order thinking (HOT). Moving beyond outcome-oriented discussions of technology use itself, this study examines the association between HOT performance, instructional design elements, and cognitive processes in GAI-supported teaching contexts […]
• How AI Actually works - Cris Tolomia, Quartz
  This piece is not about whether AI is good or bad. It's about what it actually is: how it learns, how it generates output, where its failures come from, and why the problems that afflict these systems are structural rather than incidental. Understanding these things won't make you a machine learning engineer. It will make […]
• Building expertise in the age of AI: Who trains the next generation? - Bryan Hancock, McKinsey
  For decades, organizations have relied on early-career talent to do the routine, lower-risk work that supports the business and to serve as a training ground for future leaders. Think of Peggy Olson’s trajectory on Mad Men, from novice assistant to Don Draper’s protégé to confident copy chief at an advertising agency—a climb that began because […]
• How to make your academic work visible to AI - Darshan Vigneswaran, Times Higher Education
  Here is the brutal truth about AI discoverability: it is not replacing citation metrics. It is layering itself on top of them. So, work that is already cited, circulated and sitting inside recognisable debates is likely to become even more visible. The rich get richer, now with a chatbot assistant. If Google Scholar sometimes buries […]
• Lifelong learning in an AI-driven world: assistance, personalization and automation under scrutiny - Gerardo Alfredo Rodríguez, Andres Chiappe, Fabiola Sáez-Delgado, Frontiers in Education
  This scoping review examines the growing intersection between lifelong learning (LLL) and artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on whether the promises of assistance, personalization, and automation are aligned with the broader educational, social, and equity-oriented aims of LLL. The review addresses a central concern: although AI is increasingly promoted as a transformative resource for lifelong education, […]
• Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT‑5.6 Luna for free users - OpenAI
  Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re introducing updates to ChatGPT that improve everyday conversations while expanding access for Free users. For Plus and Pro users, we’re updating GPT‑5.6 Sol in Chat to be more reliable with facts and provide more focused answers. A new slider lets you […]
• Top 10 Online Course Apps and Websites for Learning New Skill - Sekolapedia
  The global education landscape has undergone a permanent shift. Up-skilling, continuous learning, and professional certifications are no longer optional extras—they are essential requirements for navigating an increasingly automated and competitive workforce. Online learning platforms have democratized education, allowing anyone with an internet connection to learn from top university professors, industry practitioners, and subject-matter experts.https://daftarsekolah.spmb.teknokrat.ac.id/2026/08/top-10-online-course-apps-and-websites-for-learning-new-skills/
• Self-directed learning ability and online student engagement among nursing students: the mediating role of information literacy and the moderating role of self-control - Haihong Zhang, et al; NIH National Library of Medicine
  Self-directed learning ability had a significant positive direct effect on online student engagement (β = 0.511, t = 17.586, p < 0.001). Information literacy mediated the relationship between self-directed learning ability and online student engagement, with an indirect effect of 0.346, accounting for 67.7% of the total effect. Self-control negatively moderated the direct effect of […]
• AI won’t kill the college degree, but it will change what it’s for - Colin Gabler, Atlanta Journal Constitution
  In the AI era, the value of college will not be measured by the output students generate, but whether they can form and defend the judgments they make behind it. That shift to artificial intelligence is already changing what counts as evidence of real learning in higher education, how we justify the valuable time and […]
• AI Detectors Are Out, New Assessments Are In - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  “It’s a difficult, delicate moment right now. And I’m not sure we have all the answers,” Kevin Yee, director of the Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning at the University of Central Florida, told Inside Higher Ed. “If faculty had an AI detector that was reliable, that’s what they would use. But many are reluctantly […]
• OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT - The Register
  The House of Altman announced a trio of new education-focused offerings on Tuesday: one for K-12 teachers, another for college educators, and a third for college students. The new plugins, the company explained, will help students and educators make more use of ChatGPT’s agentic capabilities for both studying and teaching. The new features are available […]
• Education Department Approves First Workforce Pell Program - Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed
  Students in an EMT program at Iowa Central Community College will be the first to take advantage of Workforce Pell. The U.S. Department of Education approved its first Workforce Pell program, for training emergency medical technicians at Iowa Central Community College, according to a Tuesday announcement. Students can now access Pell Grants, federal financial aid […]
• Public Colleges Anchor State Workforce Pipelines - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  The type of college a person graduates from is one of the strongest predictors of whether they’ll remain in the state to work after graduation, new data shows. According to a report the Strada Institute for the Future of Work published Thursday, 62 percent of workers between the ages of 20 and 65 who graduated […]
• Fitch: New visa limits could hurt international enrollment and revenue - Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
  The Trump administration’s new rule capping international student visa stays at four years could hurt revenue and decrease enrollment at colleges, particularly those that heavily rely on foreign students, according to a Tuesday analysis from Fitch Ratings. Financial pressure will be greatest on institutions with weaker student demand, limited financial flexibility, and a high reliance […]
• Differential engagement with generative artificial intelligence in higher education: Gender, motivation, and achievement trajectories - uan-Hsuan Lee & Jiun-Yu Wu, International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
  Engagement frequency was shaped by learner differences: female students, those with stronger autonomous motivation, lower prior knowledge, and higher course performance interacted more frequently, while higher-performing students were less likely to abstain from use. Importantly, engagement was not merely a matter of frequency but of inquiry quality and diversity. Growing Achievers (students who began with […]
• Why reinvention is the new responsibility of public higher education - Anthony Graham, Pine Bluss Commercial
  Leadership scholars have long observed that every system is perfectly designed to produce the results it produces. This simple observation carries profound implications for higher education. If our universities are producing outcomes that no longer meet the needs of today’s students, employers, and communities, the answer cannot be to simply work harder within the same […]
• A $40,000-Per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma - Maya Henry, Good Men Project
  An AI-powered, billionaire-backed chain of private schools promises to educate students with two hours of virtual learning a day and entrepreneurship workshops. There are no teachers, and tuition is nearly double the most expensive private school in the state. This is Alpha School and, come August, it’s touching down in Oklahoma. Here’s how it works, […]