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• Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work - Maxwell Zeff, Wired
  OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside ChatGPT in the coming weeks, marking a significant shift for one of the world’s most widely used AI products. The company announced Friday that initial ad tests will roll out in the United States before expanding globally. OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that all […]
• Building leaders in the age of AI - Bob Sternfels, Børge Brende, and Daniel Pacthod, McKinsey
  Artificial intelligence can write, design, code, and complete tasks at breakneck speed. It can help business leaders draft emails, create agendas, and quickly prepare for important meetings and difficult discussions. It can do all of that with just a few voice commands—but it still can’t do the hard work of leadership itself. Generative AI cannot […]
• How course-sharing improved Adrian College’s bottom line - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  Layoffs and program cuts have become a popular strategy to reduce staff size, the most significant expense for many cash-strapped colleges and universities. By sharing courses with other institutions, Adrian has reduced its academic budget by 13% without a layoff, all while launching 38 new academic programs in subjects such as supply chain management to […]
• Affective Intelligence in Artificial Intelligence - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  As we look at artificial intelligence in teaching and learning, we must look beyond facts, figures and formulas to ensure that the skills of perceiving and managing feelings, emotions and personalization are engaged in the process. Some might believe that AI, as a computer-based system, merely addresses the facts, formulas and figures of quantitative learning […]
• Microcredentials Explosion Is Imminent And What It All Means - Neil Wolstenholme, FE News
  A very significant structural shift in British education since the expansion of universities in the 1990s is imminent. While the headlines focus on tuition fees or teacher retention, a more profound revolution is taking place – one that challenges the very monopoly of the three-year degree The imminent explosion of microcredentials is a policy inevitability. […]
• MOOC Market Trends 2025: AI, Micro-Credentials, and Workforce Upskilling - Open PR
  The global MOOC market is witnessing strong double-digit growth, fueled by digital transformation, remote work, and the rising need for continuous skill development.Market Size: Multi-billion-dollar global industryForecast Period: 2025-2032Expected CAGR: ~39.20%The post-pandemic shift toward online and hybrid learning models has permanently changed how individuals and organizations view education, making MOOCs a long-term growth engine.https://www.openpr.com/news/4347430/mooc-market-trends-2025-ai-micro-credentials-and-workforce
• The “Micro-Credential” Boom: Why Degrees Are Losing to Certificates in 2026 - Srabanti Das, Editorialge
  In 2026, the “Paper Ceiling” has not just cracked—it has shattered. With tuition for a four-year degree hitting record highs while the half-life of a technical skill shrinks to just 2.5 years, the math no longer favors the university. This analysis explores why a $300 certificate is currently outperforming a $100,000 diploma in the ROI […]
• Rethinking the community college’s role in the new economy - University Business
  Community colleges have historically served as engines of regional economic development, drawing on strong community integration to translate labor market needs into accessible education. However, rapid technological change and the decline of entry-level jobs now require a recalibration of this mission. Instead, the contemporary economy requires strategic partnerships focused on co-designed curricula and long-term worker […]
• AI’s benefits need to be distributed across all disciplines - Libing Wang and Tianchong Wang, University World News
  AI stands at the forefront of discussions on the future of higher education, igniting both anticipation and concern. Universities are exploring how AI could reshape research, redefine disciplines and transform academic practices. While its impact is most evident in the sciences and engineering, AI is also challenging core concepts in the humanities and social sciences, […]
• Howard Updates AI Curriculum to Align With Workforce - Government Technology
  Howard University is redesigning its Intro to Artificial Intelligence course, teaching the fundamentals of AI-assisted software development that are proving necessary for entry-level roles. The course introduces AI directly into instruction through hands-on, industry-aligned training, according to a news release Tuesday. Developed in partnership with CodePath, the course draws on curriculum originally designed by the […]
• Humanities cuts leave us defenceless in the age of AI - Agnieszka Piotrowska, Time Higher Ed
  There is no shortage of talk about risk in AI, in higher education and beyond. We discuss plagiarism, bias, fairness and governance. These are important challenges. But there are others. How do these systems behave over time, and what do their observable behaviours reveal about their underlying structures and about human responses to them? Engineers […]
• The US wants more apprenticeships. The UK figured out how to make them coveted roles - Kelly Field, Hechinger Report
  Most students here and in the United States wouldn’t get access to expensive equipment like this until graduate school. Goshawk — a 21-year-old undergraduate student and one of 149 “degree apprentices” employed by AstraZeneca across the U.K. — started using them his second week in. “It shows the trust we’ve been given,” said Goshawk, who […]
• Trump Admin. Touts 8,000 Student Visas Revoked - Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed
  The Department of State has revoked 8,000 student visas since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the department shared on the social media site X on Monday, as part of the president’s massive deportation campaign. In total, the administration has revoked 100,000 nonimmigrant visas, the department wrote, which is about double the number […]
• Artificial intelligence at the University of Hawaiʻi: ASAP! - Janis Magin, Hawaiʻi Public Radio
  The University of Hawaiʻi system has made progress in developing artificial intelligence as an area of study — and an asset to use at the school. UH is focusing even more on AI in 2026 with plans to introduce an online AI literacy course. It’s also using technology to make sure more students in Hawaiʻi […]
• AI on Campus: Rethinking the Core Goals of Higher Education - Abby Sourwine, GovTech
  For many professors, teaching has always been about more than delivering subject-specific content. Derek Bruff, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Teaching Excellence, said the core mission of college is to help students develop critical thinking, problem-solving and judgment skills that prepare them for life beyond the classroom. But with artificial intelligence offering […]
• Navigating Higher Ed’s Digital Shift as a Technophobe - Robert Ubell, Evolllution
  Psychologists say that some of us are drawn to behavior we fear because the experience creates an exhilarating rush in a safe, controlled environment, allowing us to feel the excitement in a fight-or-flight response without actually being in danger, leading to feelings of euphoria, heightened alertness and a sense of mastery. Or I may be trapped in […]
• AI Agents in Higher Education: Transforming Student Services and Support - Tom Mangan, EdTech
  Similarly, researchers have noted a host of ways that agentic AI tools can potentially drive improvements in higher education. Agents will be able to gather data from multiple sources to assess a student’s progress across multiple courses. If the student starts falling behind, processes could kick in to help them catch up. Agents can relieve […]
• Evaluating Recent Advances in Affective Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Scoping Review of Educational Impacts and Future Prospects - Jorge Fernández-Herrero, Journal of Education Sciences, MDPI
  Affective intelligent tutoring systems (ATSs) are gaining recognition for their role in personalized learning through adaptive automated education based on students’ affective states. This scoping review evaluates recent advancements and the educational impact of ATSs, following PRISMA guidelines for article selection and analysis. A structured search of the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases […]
• Here are 4 ways AI will impact higher ed in the new year - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  1. Emotionally intelligent AIInstitutions will use technology to drive deeper human connection amid the rapid rise of AI assistants, chatbots and algorithmically tailored content, Researchers from MIT, the University of Pittsburgh and other institutions found that AI use in the classroom lowered brain activity and led to student anxiety and confusion. Teachers also feared losing […]
• The Limits of Artificial Intelligence in Professional Military Education - Matthew Woessner, Real Clear Defense
  The purpose of this paper is not to prescribe how to incorporate AI into specific courses, but rather to highlight potential student vulnerabilities and offer suggestions for how they can be managed within a broad curricular framework across PME. Even as AI is incorporated into PME, faculty must ensure that the technology does not supplant […]