The AI Tsunami: Reinventing Education for the Age of AI

A six-part series published in EDUCAUSE Review, co-authored with Paul LeBlanc, Mihnea Moldoveanu, George Siemens, Tanya Gamby, and David Kil.

The series explores how higher education must fundamentally transform in the age of AI—not just adopting new tools, but rethinking assessment, pedagogy, and institutional purpose.

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The Series

Part 1: The AI Tsunami Is Here — September 2025

Setting the stage: why AI represents a fundamental shift, not just an incremental change, and what that means for how we design learning experiences.

Part 2: Dialogue at Scale — October 2025

Rethinking assessment for soft skills. How AI can enable dialogue-driven learning at scale—and the risks if we get it wrong.

Part 3: From Personalized to Precision Learning — November 2025

Moving beyond personalization as content branching toward precision learning—adapting not just what learners see, but how learning systems reason about progress.

Part 4: The University, the Chatbot, and a New Mission — January 2026

If AI can deliver content and answer questions, what remains uniquely human about the university? A call for institutions to rediscover their purpose.

Part 5 — Coming soon

Part 6 — Coming soon