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  • May 5, 2025

    Innovation as Habit: Practicing looking forward in a backward-looking business

    Tom Scheinfeldt offers some strategies for cultivating innovation. Really love the critique of overlying on data: "Data is important and can tell us a lot if we listen to it. But the data available to us contains infinite silences, and those silences, what the data doesn’t say, are as rich and robust as the stories it tells. Because there is infinitely more data in the world than we can ever collect in a spreadsheet, we need to be wary of listening too much to our spreadsheets."

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  • April 30, 2025

    AI as Normal Technology

    An argument for treating AI as a technological tool, even a very important one, but not as a different species.

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  • April 28, 2025

    2025 Educause Teaching & Learning Workforce in Higher Education

    Educause’s big survey of teaching & learning professionals.

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  • April 28, 2025

    Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude

    Interesting disciplinary differences, less surprising revelations about students using Claude for higher-order tasks.

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  • April 14, 2025

    2025 Students and Technology Report

    Educause's survey of student technology use in higher education.

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