Topic: Teaching with technology
Blog Post
May 1, 2025
Generative AI Adoption and Related Challenges in Higher Education
New Report Shares Findings of Cross-Institutional Qualitative Study
Today, we are announcing the publication of a new report detailing the findings of interviews offering insight on how instructors and researchers are using generative artificial intelligence in their work, as well as the challenges they currently face related to the technology. The study also reveals which support resources instructors and researchers are relying on and which resources they feel are still lacking.
Research Report
May 1, 2025
Making AI Generative for Higher Education
Adoption and Challenges Among Instructors and Researchers
This report presents the findings of the interviews that asked faculty to reflect on their perceptions of and experiences with generative AI in both teaching and research. Our study was driven by the following questions: To what degree are faculty adopting generative AI, and how is this changing their approaches and practices in teaching and research? What challenges are they facing in the aftermath of generative AI’s emergence? What support do they still need?…
Past Event
April 30, 2025
Open Codes, Open Minds
Navigating AI and Open Education in College Instruction
At the Cal Poly Humboldt Library Innovation Summit, focused on “Digital Humanities, Polytechnics, & AI,” Ithaka S+R’s Mark McBride will present a hybrid Zoom session on navigating AI and open education in college instruction. The session will take place at 10am on Wednesday April 30, 2025. See the full schedule for more details.
Blog Post
April 9, 2025
Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula
A New Cohort Project Gets Underway
While the technological and commercial landscape remains fluid, and the long-term impacts of AI on teaching and learning remain contested, colleges and universities are ready to shift from reactive to proactive engagement with AI. AI literacy will be a cornerstone of that engagement at many institutions. The idea that students will need to know how to use and think critically about AI is one on which skeptics, agnostics, and advocates can largely agree. A few universities have already launched AI…
Blog Post
March 20, 2025
Highlights from SXSW EDU 2025
The Growing Role of AI in Education, Learning Styles, the Value of Higher Education, and Student Belonging Take Center Stage
Earlier this month, I attended the SXSW EDU Conference in Austin, Texas, where I led a panel session about Ithaka S+R’s credit mobility work. The conference featured wide-ranging sessions covering key topics in the K-12, higher education, and education technology sectors. I wanted to highlight a number of sessions that stood out to me, focused on the growing role of artificial intelligence in education, leadership in challenging times, student mental health and learning styles, and building cultures that…
Past Event
February 20, 2025
Generative AI in Higher Education
Emerging Impacts on Research & Teaching
On Thursday, February 20, Ithaka S+R’s Dylan Ruediger will participate in a virtual panel discussion hosted by the University of Delaware that will be focused on generative AI in higher education and emerging impacts on research and teaching.
Blog Post
February 10, 2025
Defining and Implementing AI Literacy
Announcing a New Cohort Project
Defining and implementing AI literacy is complicated by rapidly evolving technologies and the difficulty of foreseeing the magnitude and variety of AI’s effects on teaching and learning, career readiness, and civic life. Creating institutionally specific frameworks for AI literacy and building the programming and resources necessary to integrate it into undergraduate education will require contributions from across the university. Libraries are well positioned to be campus and even national leaders in these efforts.
Blog Post
February 6, 2025
Convening Stakeholders in the Open-Source Ecosystem Workshop
Announcing a New NSF-Funded Project
Open Source Software (OSS) has great potential to benefit higher education and is increasingly recognized as a core component of open science. The community that supports OSS for teaching and administrative purposes, such as Moodle and MIT Mathlets, has made great progress in seeding, scaling, and sustaining their projects within the academy and has built a robust and sustainable infrastructure. However, academic silos have made it difficult for this community to share knowledge with those developing OSS for research purposes.
Past Event
February 6, 2025
The Landscape of Generative AI in Teaching and Research
For the past two years, universities have been grappling with the implications of Chat-GPT and other tools that have put generative AI into the hands of students and faculty. As libraries and other university units develop policies, programming, and resources to support the ethical adoption of generative AI, they need empirical evidence about how campus communities are using it. In a presentation at Temple University on February 6 at 2pm, Dylan Ruediger will share findings from three major Ithaka…
Past Event
March 4, 2025
AI & Edu: Sharing Real Classroom Successes & Challenges
SXSW EDU 2025
The AI hype cycle is in full swing. It’s time to do what we do best: share insights to learn from one another. At SXSW EDU 2025, on March 4 at 1:00pm-2:00pm CT, Ithaka S+R’s Dylan Ruediger and ITHAKA’s Zhuo Chen will lead an open discussion about AI usage in the classroom for college and college readiness-focused educators. Participants will exchange real world experiences and evidence about how they’re using AI to successfully, and not so successfully, improve student…
Blog Post
January 22, 2025
Announcing a New Report on Open Educational Resources
In the fall of 2023 we announced the launch of a new research project, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, designed to assess the impact and implementation of open educational resource (OER) initiatives at public institutions of higher education. Today, we are publishing the resulting report, based on an initial literature review and interviews with OER leaders in four US states. In Charting the Course: Case Studies in OER Sustainability, we identify five key takeaways: There…
Research Report
January 22, 2025
Charting the Course
Case Studies in OER Sustainability
Over the past several years, OERs have gained significant traction across higher education, driven by a combination of grassroots campus efforts and state agencies of higher education or system-wide initiatives. The rationale behind these efforts has been clear: to alleviate the financial burden on students by reducing the cost of course materials. But OERs offer other advantages as well, serving as a catalyst for instructional innovation and helping to create a more inclusive learning environment.
Past Event
January 13, 2025
Between Codes and Connections
Navigating AI's Role in Teaching and Learning for College Instructors
On January 13 at 9:00am ET, Ithaka S+R’s Mark McBride will present the keynote at SUNY Niagara Community College’s Professional Development Days event, on navigating AI’s role in teaching and learning for college instructors. In the unfolding story of higher education, a new protagonist has entered the scene: artificial intelligence. As college instructors, you are no strangers to transformative tools, from blackboards to Zoom rooms, but AI demands something deeper—a rethinking of what it means to teach, to learn,…
Past Event
February 11, 2025
Charting the Way Upward
Preliminary Findings in AI Services and Adoption in Higher Education
In the Summer of 2023, Ithaka S+R launched a research and consulting project, “Making AI Generative for Higher Education” that assists 18 higher education institutions in identifying ways and areas generative AI (GAI) is poised to revolutionize educational practices, yet these areas are not receiving sufficient attention from our institution or the higher education sector at large. This panel discussion, part of NISO Plus Baltimore 2025, aims to explore the preliminary findings of our ongoing project, which investigates…
Blog Post
December 9, 2024
An Education Technology Implementation Playbook for Correctional Leaders
Planning Tools and Collaborations that Foreground Student Learning Objectives
As both the owner and operator of correctional facilities and the official oversight entity for higher education in prison programming, it is up to departments of correction to determine what technology to make available for education on the inside. This means that correctional leaders are responsible for considering security and safety as well as educational best practices. There is little research on how to negotiate these, at times differing, value sets. As a result, there are very few…
Playbook
December 9, 2024
Technology Implementation for Higher Education in Prison
A Student-Centered Playbook for Planning, Preparing, and Assessing Implementation Readiness
As both the owner and operator of correctional facilities and the official oversight entity for higher education in prison programming, it is up to departments of correction to determine what technology to make available for education on the inside. However, there are very few resources designed to help correctional leaders determine what technologies are available, how they might benefit students in their facilities, and what drawbacks the new technology might pose.
Past Event
November 15, 2024
Innovation and Shared Infrastructure in Artificial Intelligence Applications
At the 2024 CONCERT Conference, Roger Schonfeld will give a keynote speech on innovation and shared infrastructure in GenAI applications, sharing insights from Ithaka S+R research. The session will take place on November 15 at 9:30-10:30am. Visit the website to learn more.
Past Event
November 19, 2024
AI and The University Mission
Teaching, Learning, and Research
Ithaka S+R’s Dylan Ruediger will speak at the Notre Dame AI Forum in a session focusing on “AI and The University Mission: Teaching, Learning, and Research.” The session will take place on November 19 at 3:15pm – 4:00pm. Learn more and see the full conference schedule.
Past Event
October 25, 2024
AI in the Classroom
Conversations with UBalt’s AI Professional Learning Community
The University of Baltimore Teaching & Learning Day presents an exciting lineup of workshops and conversations designed to ignite thoughtful reflection on classroom practices. Join faculty, staff, and special guests from Ithaka S+R to explore pressing topics in higher education, from integrating AI into teaching to managing challenging classroom conversations. A session on “AI in the Classroom” will be led by Claire Baytas and Dylan Ruediger, on October 25.
Past Event
October 7, 2024
Ithaka S+R Research on Sustaining OER
Open 2030 Working Group Meeting
At the Open 2030 Working Group Meeting on October 7 at 11:00am, Ithaka S+R’s Ioana Hulbert, Deirdre Harkins, and Mark McBride will present on Ithaka S+R research on sustaining open educational resources (OER) and OER usage for teaching and learning. The Open 2030 Working Group, comprised of thought leaders and educational innovators and funders, focuses on building educational equity and social justice through OER.