Category Archives: automation

Launching my new book, Peak Higher Ed

Greetings from the darkest week of the year in the northern hemisphere. As winter solstice draws nigh I’m preparing some end-of-year posts.  But first, this month Johns Hopkins University Press is publishing my new book, Peak Higher Ed: How to … Continue reading →

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Another jobs projection: support for the Health Care Nation scenario

Which academics fields are growing, and for what reasons?  Which are shrinking, and why? I’ve been exploring these questions for years.  Today I came across a recent federal report which might give some insights. One answer is that health care … Continue reading →

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Starting my AI and higher education seminar

Greetings from early September, when fall classes have begun.  Today I’d like to share information about one of my seminars as part of my long-running practice of being open about my teaching. It’s in Georgetown University’s Learning, Design, and Technology … Continue reading →

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Peak higher education: seeing what AI makes of recent enrollment data

(This is an experimental crossover post for both my blog and Substack, since the topic applied to each of them.) As I write my new book, Peak Higher Education, I research a good amount of statistics.  Enrollment data, publication numbers, … Continue reading →

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Some critical readings on AI for my graduate students: an updated reading list

Earlier this month I blogged about finding good readings about AI for one of my graduate seminars.  I listed a few, then blegged for more. In response, folks were very generous.  Suggestions flooded in through the comments, then also by … Continue reading →

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What should my grad students read about emerging AI?

I have a seminar meeting coming up for my technology and innovation class, and I’m not sure what readings I should assign. The subject is AI, and I have many thoughts but no conclusions.  So today I’m asking for readers’ … Continue reading →

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Starting my future of higher education seminar at Georgetown

Today I’m holding the first class for my Georgetown University Learning, Design, and Technology future of higher education class.  It’s one I created from scratch and am enormously fond of. I’ve taught it several times, and am keeping the majority … Continue reading →

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What are campuses doing about AI this fall semester?

NB: I’ve updated this post several times with more examples, mostly recently 7/25/2023. As fall classes draw nigh, I wonder (among other things) what colleges and universities are doing to do about generative AI. I haven’t seen many completed institutional … Continue reading →

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AI, higher education, and the future: launching a Substack

What might new developments in artificial intelligence mean for higher education? I’ve been exploring this topic for years, and now would like to announce a new project about it.  I’m launching a Substack newsletter, AI and Academia, with the goal … Continue reading →

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Some large-scale decisions we can make about AI in 2023

In my current work on forecasting the intersection of AI and higher ed, I’ve been running into an interesting problem.  Well, several, but today I’d like to share a structural one, caught between futures thinking and where AI is right … Continue reading →

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