About this episode

The episode discusses how Southern New Hampshire University uses AI to enhance education accessibility and human potential.

In this episode, Kathi Enderes sits down with Rob McAuslan, Vice President for Artificial Intelligence at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), one of the world’s largest and most innovative online universities with more than 200,000 students. Before leading SNHU’s AI strategy, Rob taught, worked, and volunteered across Africa, the Mediterranean, and East Asia, working with populations ranging from K-12 students to refugees to graduate scholars. That lived experience shapes everything about how SNHU thinks about AI: not as a tool for automation, but as a means of expanding access, amplifying human potential, and meeting learners exactly where they are. SNHU is no ordinary university. As one of the largest and most innovative higher education institutions in the United States, it has built its reputation on making education accessible to learners who the traditional system has often left behind: working adults, career changers, veterans, and underserved communities. Rob’s role as VP for AI sits squarely at the intersection of that mission and the most consequential technological shift of our time. Rob and Kathi discuss what it really means to deploy AI with humans at the…

People in this episode

Host: Kathi Enderes

Guest: Rob McAuslan

Topics covered

• AI in education
• accessibility in learning
• higher education innovation
• human-centered AI
• skills-based learning

Keywords

• AI
• education
• Southern New Hampshire University
• accessibility
• human potential
• learning
• innovation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Southern New Hampshire University

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