Bryan Alexander shares about Peak Higher Ed on episode 604 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

“It’s another form of thinking, it’s another form of organizing information and that we have to treat it seriously as such. The computer scientist actually recommends that we think about generative AI as children. These are AIs that have some degree of autonomy and they’re also not very wise in the world yet, and we have to train and rear them up.”
– Bryan Alexander

“So if AI is bubble, if it turns out to be a bubble and it pops, this might be bad news for the entire economy.”
– Bryan Alexander

“The problem of how do we actually figure out what people are doing with AI within post secondary education? That’s a really great challenge because if you polled people, they have all kinds of great incentives to not respond accurately.”
– Bryan Alexander

• Peak Higher Ed, by Bryan Alexander: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis, by Bryan Alexander
• Bryan Alexander’s Website
• Maha Bali’s Blog
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜, by Emily M. Bender et al
• Helen Beetham’s Newsletter: Imperfect Offerings
• Pluralistic: Daily Links from Cory Doctorow
• Faraday Cage
• Georgetown University: Learning, Design, and Technology
• John Warner
• John Warner’s Newsletter
• GTD – Workflow diagram
• Todd’s AI Playground
• Todd’s AI Songs About His Course Evaluations
• Adam Tooze
• Chartbook

Matthew Mahavongtrakul shares about active learning that engages all learners on episode 603 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

You don’t need to change your entire course tomorrow. What is one simple thing that you can do that will push you on the path?
– Matthew Mahavongtrakul

“The number one kind of piece of pushback that I get from faculty is I just simply cannot cover everything.”
– Matthew Mahavongtrakul

“I think at the crux of it, it is the shift in mentality between us as being, as we say, the sage on the stage to being a facilitator in the classroom.”
– Matthew Mahavongtrakul

• UC Irvine Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation’s Active Learning Institute
• Stephen Brookfield
• Todd Zakrajsek
• You Care About It, Do It in Class: Why faculty members need to shift the balance of class time from first exposure to skills practice
• Why Students Resist Learning with Anton Tolman on Episode 171
• Notsu Notes
• Lily Abadal’s workbook, outlining her process of having students write a research paper throughout her entire class
• Bluesky post of Andrea Kaston Tange sharing about her reading scenario experimentation
• POD Network Conference

C. Edward Watson shares about navigating AI’s rapid transformation in higher ed on episode 602 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

I never include AI in the beginning of my processes.
-C. Edward Watson

There’s a lot of incremental shifts, but the increments are quite large.
-C. Edward Watson

I would argue that maybe this is the first time in the history of higher education that we have learning outcomes that are at war with one another.
-C. Edward Watson

We’ve never built a curriculum for something that’s changing so quickly. We’re being asked to keep up with this rate of change in a meaningful way that actually serves our students well.
-C. Edward Watson

• Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
• Teaching with AI Website (Including Free Resources)
• AAC&U Artificial Intelligence Resources
• AAC&U Teaching with AI Workshops
• AAC&U Report: The Agility Imperative: How Employers View Preparation for an Uncertain Future
• Wharton School of Business Survey: How Are Companies Using Gen AI in 2025?
• Shell Game Season Two
• Caraway Cookware