How to Turn AI Panic into Institutional Learning
Think about the last AI conversation you were part of on your campus. Was it about a dazzling new tool someone wanted to get up and running immediately? A policy that got bogged down? A student question that made you realize you don’t have the answer? We’re all having those conversations each day, sometimes every […]
Accessibility Isn’t a Compliance Problem. It’s an Organizational Change Problem.
Higher education doesn’t have an accessibility problem. That sentence probably sounds strange coming from someone who spends much of her professional life helping my college prepare for the April 2027 ADA Title II compliance enforcement deadline. Yet after working with faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and accessibility specialists across my institution, I’ve become convinced that accessibility […]
I Can Spot the AI. I Can’t See the Learning.
You’ve been grading discussion posts for half an hour, and they’re all fine. Clean paragraphs, the word “delve” on repeat, an “overall” sentence to wrap things up, a source or two that don’t exist. Then one stops you: it’s a little rough, a little uneven, and it sounds like a person wrote it. That’s what […]
The Invisible Bottleneck: Why Classroom Innovation Collapses at the Funding Cliff
The technology worked. The training happened. The classrooms changed for about 18 months. Then the grant ended, and so did the innovation. Behind those classrooms, a complex web of scheduling, budgets, and leadership support was always determining whether the innovation would last. This isn’t a story about bad technology, unwilling teachers, or insufficient effort. It’s […]
Higher Ed is running into a structural problem regarding science labs
If your institution doesn’t have a meaningful online science lab component, you’re already at a disadvantage. I’ve been teaching science courses and labs for 30+ years, in traditional classrooms (in the US), on overseas military bases, and online. I was there when online education was just getting started. Back then, there were only a handful […]