Anthropic's AI assistant Claude wrote Mark Carrigan's May 2026 blog roundup at his request, analyzing posts that split into two distinct blocks: an interior series on psychoanalysis and desire from Ma…
A pilot study of philosophy undergraduates found that 79.1% of students recognized the importance of assigned readings but cited limited time (65.7%) and intellectual difficulty (33.3%) as barriers, w…
Three structural trends—the sociotechnical transformation of AI, the political economy of the AI investment bubble, and the financial crisis in UK higher education—are converging to destabilize univer…
A scaffold for learning, defined as a tool or agent that assists a student in performing a task independently before being removed, is fundamentally incompatible with subscription-based AI services li…
Researchers Thomas Corbin, Sue Sharpe, and Phillip Dawson warn that wearable AI will trigger a second wave of the assessment crisis, as devices like smart glasses provide real-time cognitive assistanc…
A new academic paper argues there is no definitive solution to the challenge artificial intelligence poses to student assessment, classifying the issue as a "wicked problem" with no correct or incorre…