Half an Hour

These days it seems everybody is rushing to protect the core function of higher education from encroachment by AI.  I read a post from Anna Mills on preventing LLMs from autocompleting assignment answers in the LMS. Wendy Palmer is asking how we preserve the importance of credentials . On and on it goes, with new posts in this vein every day. In my opinion, things like classes and assignments and credentials are the least valuable things about higher education. They're all relatively recent inventions and were developed in order to accommodate mass education. They didn't exist, really, when higher education was an activity reserved for the elite. Rather than re-litigate that argument, however, I want to focus on what's  good  about higher education. What's worth preserving that will carry on even in the age of artificial intelligence? Here are a few thoughts. Facilities  - think of a college or university and the first thing you think of isn't the row on row of cla...