📢 Check out this article by Karen Webber, President of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and Professor Emeritus in the McBee Institute of Higher Education at The University of Georgia, and Henry Zheng, Vice Provost of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning at Carnegie Mellon University, about the implications of AI in higher education for Institutional…
Thrilled to announce my contribution to a special volume on AI and analytics in higher education. My article, “Reflections on the Artificial Intelligence Transformation,” explores the ethical and responsible use of AI in higher education and its impact on institutional research and effectiveness. Key Highlights: – The journey towards AI integration in higher education. –…
I ran the same two prompts on two different AI systems this morning. First, a haiku about artificial intelligence. Then a ten-stanza poem in iambic pentameter. A parlor trick, the kind of thing you do when you’re testing something and want a clean finish line. Qwen 3.6, running locally on my machine, took 80.9 seconds…
I thought the next layer would be more Obsidian configuration. It wasn’t. More graph view, more backlinks, more manual connection-making. That is what I used to do in Roam. I would spend real time threading notes together, following paths between ideas, maintaining a map of how everything connected. I did not do any of that….
I added Obsidian last. That was the right order. Most people building a personal knowledge system do it backwards. They install Obsidian first, configure a vault, explore the plugins, build a folder structure for notes they have not written yet. Then they discover that the system needs content to be useful, and content is harder…
In my last post I argued that the AI debate runs simultaneously at five levels (task, person, organization, economy, civilization) and that no one has agreed on which level should have standing. The civilization level, where the hardest questions live and where costs tend to concentrate, keeps getting treated as decorative. Nobody is lying. Everyone…
