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"AI does what AI does best and people do what people do best." @whitneykilgore (iDesign) + Tom Cavanagh (@UCF) on AI behind the scenes in UCF's R.N.-to-B.S.N. redesign, in @insidehighered. insidehighered.com/opinion/column… #onlinelearning #AI

"Listening is not a delay but a precondition" for responding well to faculty AI concerns, writes Henry Yoon (Augsburg) in @EDUCAUSEreview. Faculty skepticism is reasoned, not reactive. er.educause.edu/articles/2026/… #facultydevelopment #AI

"Institutions getting AI adoption right invest in people first, not biggest budgets." Tynan Fischer on the leadership moves that actually work in higher ed: listening, tiered training, peer sharing. Read in @EDUCAUSEreview: er.educause.edu/articles/spons… #highereducation #AI

@UVA's AI Literacy and Action Lab embeds hands-on AI directly into courses across disciplines, not as optional workshops. Pilots already running in economics, writing, philosophy, and biochemistry. The framing: learning by doing, not studying. insidehighered.com/news/student-s… #AI #highereducation

"The real competition in online education is not other universities. It is institutional inertia." Julie J. Thalman, @uofcincy, makes the case in @insidehighered: insidehighered.com/opinion/views/… #onlinelearning #highereducation

A B+ from @AppsForAmerica for the first year of the 1M apprentice push. The gap to close: $285M in current annual U.S. spending vs. the $5B AFA says the country needs. ccdaily.com/2026/04/gradin… #workforcelearning #highereducation

"'More students' is not always the answer. Greatest success comes from enrolling students who persist to graduation." Stefanie D. Niles on the four paths to enrollment growth, and why retention is the real math. chronicle.com/article/the-fo… #highereducation

AI literacy isn't a tool adoption problem. It's a course redesign problem. @IWUWildcats's 12-week Course Refresh Institute: faculty plus designers, rebuilding courses around a 5-level AI literacy scale. 4.9/5 satisfaction. 100% would recommend. Via @EDUCAUSEreview : er.educause.edu/articles/2026/… #highereducation #AI

"One without the other produces a worker, but together they produce a leader." @AgeniaClark, @Fisk1866 (ASU+GSV 2026) AI is reshaping work at the task level. Colleges must design for durable + technical skills together. highereddive.com/news/ai-is-rem… #highereducation #AI

43M Americans started college and never finished. 2.7M already have enough credits for a credential. Higher ed can't afford to keep ignoring them. insidehighered.com/opinion/column… #highereducation #studentaccess

Come find us at UPCEA (Booth 211) April 15–17. Whitney Kilgore, PhD (CAO & Co-Founder), Briana Johnson (VP of Partner Success), and Jessica Smith, PhD (Director of Partner Success & Instructional Design) will be there and would love to connect. 👉 conferences.upcea.edu/annual2026/ See you there. 👋 #UPCEA #highereducation #OnlineLearning

“Sometimes that really requires just erasing the whiteboard and starting over.” @UCF is rebuilding its RN to BSN program for working nurses: eight-week terms, zero compromise on quality. The design principles are worth reading. universitybusiness.com/course-redesig… #coursedesign #nursingeducation

"Nursing faculty shouldn't spend weeks configuring tools before the real work begins." — @whitneykilgore @AACNursing's The Essentials is now built into @iDesignEDU's Align by default. Competency mapping from day one, zero setup. #nursingeducation #AI idesignedu.org/latest-news/nu…

"AI amplifies domain expertise and can fill gaps if you’re curious and willing to push through." @ASU's Sean Hobson recently spoke with @joshuamkim about building DesignedChange.ai, a free new tool for evaluating learning innovation maturity. Read the interview here: insidehighered.com/opinion/column…

BIG NEWS! 🚨 We are teaming up withc @UCFKnights to redesign 17 courses in their top-ranked online RN-to-BSN program. By introducing an 8-week structure and AI-enabled quality assurance, we are building a more flexible, supportive learning experience for working nurses. #HigherEd #Nursing #EdTech #InstructionalDesign #UCF idesignedu.org/latest-news/id…

"AI will never replace the faculty voice... but it will become an indispensable partner." Our CEO @PaxtonRiter recently spoke with @HigherEdDigest about the future of instructional design, faculty empowerment, and why edtech should focus on sustainability over hype #HigherEd #EdTech #AI #InstructionalDesign highereducationdigest.com/transforming-h…

The "borderless" online degree is a myth. @PhilOnEdTech's latest analysis of NC-SARA data shows a brutal reality: states are either retention fortresses (like AZ) or leaky sieves (like WA) losing half their students to mega-universities. Who is eating your state's online enrollment lunch? 🤔 #HigherEd #Enrollment #EdTechData #OnlineEducation onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/nc-sara-inte…

BIG NEWS! We are partnering with @QMProgram for a multi-year research study on human-AI collaboration in online program design. We are working with 18 institutions to discover how AI can augment (not replace) faculty and instructional designers in curriculum mapping. idesignedu.org/latest-news/na… #HigherEd #EdTech #AI #InstructionalDesign

The workplace is becoming the campus. 🏢🎓 New reporting from @insidehighered suggests the U.S. is finally ready to scale apprenticeships beyond the trades. With "braided funding" and new federal incentives, leaders like @ReachUniversity's Joe Ross predict a massive shift toward work-embedded degrees. insidehighered.com/news/tech-inno…

Students want connection, not just automation. 🤖🎓 In a new @EDUCAUSEreview piece, @iDesignEDU's @whitneykilgore and industry luminary @debadair85 of @QMProgram explain how we can use AI to rehumanize education and return valuable time to faculty. #HigherEd #EdTech #FutureOfWork #AI er.educause.edu/articles/2026/…