Underlining what matters in higher ed and ed tech: news, vendor updates, and commentary from across the field, in one place.https://theunderline.netlify.app/source/derekbruff/https://derekbruff.org/2026/10/09/centering-process-over-product/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=centering-process-over-producthttps://derekbruff.org/2026/10/09/centering-process-over-product/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=centering-process-over-productThis week included a quick trip to New York City to share a few thoughts on AI-aware teaching with the editors at W. W. Norton. During their annual editors retreat, they spent some time thinking about AI, how its changing higher education, and what that means for a textbook publisher …Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:12:54 GMTDerek BruffVoiceshttps://derekbruff.org/2026/10/02/scaling-ai-aware-teaching-beyond-the-individual-course-or-what-i-thought-about-that-mit-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scaling-ai-aware-teaching-beyond-the-individual-course-or-what-i-thought-about-that-mit-reporthttps://derekbruff.org/2026/10/02/scaling-ai-aware-teaching-beyond-the-individual-course-or-what-i-thought-about-that-mit-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scaling-ai-aware-teaching-beyond-the-individual-course-or-what-i-thought-about-that-mit-reportWhat does it take to help the entire faculty of a college or university learn and adopt new teaching practices? This is a question I’ve had to grapple with twice in my career. The first time was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. I was serving as the director of …Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:08:41 GMTDerek BruffVoiceshttps://derekbruff.org/2026/09/10/mits-report-on-ai-in-teaching-and-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mits-report-on-ai-in-teaching-and-learninghttps://derekbruff.org/2026/09/10/mits-report-on-ai-in-teaching-and-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mits-report-on-ai-in-teaching-and-learningCross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (better known as MIT) released a report last month sharing the findings and recommendations of their Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research. I’ve read a lot of university reports on AI over the last…Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:17:01 GMTDerek BruffVoiceshttps://derekbruff.org/2026/08/21/toward-better-mental-models-of-learning-with-ai-ai-as-possibility-machine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toward-better-mental-models-of-learning-with-ai-ai-as-possibility-machinehttps://derekbruff.org/2026/08/21/toward-better-mental-models-of-learning-with-ai-ai-as-possibility-machine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toward-better-mental-models-of-learning-with-ai-ai-as-possibility-machineCross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. One of the things I appreciate about designing and facilitating workshops for faculty is that doing so gives me the opportunity to take a few ideas and examples that have been bouncing around my head and turn them into a new argument of some …Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:24:51 GMTDerek BruffVoiceshttps://derekbruff.org/2026/07/14/a-coherent-program-level-response-to-generative-ai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-coherent-program-level-response-to-generative-aihttps://derekbruff.org/2026/07/14/a-coherent-program-level-response-to-generative-ai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-coherent-program-level-response-to-generative-aiCross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. Two weeks ago in the newsletter, I shared some data from this summer’s Inside Higher Ed student survey on the ways students find generative AI helpful in their learning. Today, I want to point to more data from that survey, this time about institutional responses…Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:07:51 GMTDerek BruffVoices