Dr. Cristi Ford, D2L, Author at eCampus News

Higher education needs better AI experiences, not more AI tools

August 12, 2026 by Dr. Cristi Ford, D2L

AI gains traction in higher education when it stops being a separate experiment and becomes an integrated into teaching and learning.

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly embedded across higher education. As AI policies continue to evolve, faculty are gaining greater clarity and opportunity to responsibly use new tools, including…

AI in Education

Beyond a keynote speaker: A strategic roadmap for AI in higher education

August 10, 2026 by Dr. Mark Taormino, College of Southern Nevada

While technology moves at a breakneck pace, the foundational principles of human learning remain immutable as AI integrates into higher ed.

The atmosphere inside the Global Connect/American Accounting Association conference at Caesar’s Palace in August 2026 was a study in contrasts. Outside, the Las Vegas sun was punishing, an…

IT Infrastructure

How we recovered student trust after big Wi-Fi challenges

August 5, 2026 by Gavin Foster, Gettysburg College

Seeing network challenges through the eyes of users can yield innovative solutions that meet user needs, especially with campus Wi-Fi.

Every day I come to work at Gettysburg College wearing a college-branded cap that I bought with a $25 gift card, presented to me by the Student Senate…

Career Readiness

Employers keep talking about durable skills–they may come from surprising places

August 3, 2026 by Tonya S. Hall, Ed.D., InsideTrack

The absence of durable skills from today's graduate pipeline reflects not a skills gap, but a failure of institutional design.

Every few years, a new set of skills migrates to the top of employers’ hiring wish lists, and higher education scrambles to respond with retooled curricula, rebranded programs,…

Policy

Higher education’s grade inflation conundrum

July 31, 2026 by Michael B. Horn, the Clayton Christensen Institute

When it comes to grade inflation, students do less work, in some cases seem less prepared for higher education, and yet grades have gone up.

Grade inflation is all the rage in higher education. Harvard has a proposal to reduce the number of A’s it awards. A Yale faculty committee proposed that 3.0 should be the…

Student Mental Health

Strengthening campus pathways to student mental health care

July 27, 2026 by Michael Conway, Student Insurance & Jessica MacDonald, Student Insurance

Among college students, 37 percent report moderate to severe depressive symptoms and 33 percent report moderate to severe anxiety. More than three-quarters (76 percent) of college students report moderate or high stress…

AI in Education

Intentional governance: Responsibility, judgment, and leadership in the age of intelligent systems

July 24, 2026 by Vistasp M. Karbhari, University of Texas at Arlington

In governance, AI fundamentally changes how decisions are informed, it does not change who remains accountable for them.

Artificial intelligence is changing the conditions under which institutional purpose is interpreted, pursued, and realized through the exercise of institutional judgment. As institutions increasingly adopt AI, discussions related…

AI in Education

Escaping the tech debt trap: Why governance matters more in the age of AI

July 22, 2026 by Chase Williams, Pathify

A true digital campus experience requires leaders to think about how every technology decision contributes to the overall online journey.

Artificial intelligence is now emerging as a strategic priority across higher education, but many institutions are still determining how to move from experimentation to institution-wide adoption.

AI in Education

What “friction maxxing” teaches us about IT skill development in the age of AI

July 20, 2026 by Jim Atria, MyComputerCareer

Deliberately working through technical challenges helps students build and retain the ability to actively engage with a problem rather than simply receiving an answer

As AI adoption accelerates, a countertrend has emerged that reinforces the old saying: What goes around comes around. After spending years looking for ways to remove friction from…

AI in Education

Building AI that teaches: Scaling learning systems

July 17, 2026 by Rohan Benkar, Coursera

Crafting an AI learning platform also requires rethinking content delivery, assessment, and learner support as a single integrated system.

I’ve spent nine years building learning infrastructure, and during that time I’ve gone from staff engineer to founding member of our first AI engineering team. Along the way,…

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