What Can AI Replace in Higher Education? (with Hollis Robbins)

About this episode

Nat Malkus discusses the impact of AI on higher education with guest Hollis Robbins.

This podcast has covered AI in K–12 education a fair amount, but how will and how should AI change higher education? Should any human instructors be replaced with AI? Should universities change what and how they teach to strengthen their value proposition? And in the age of AI, how should universities prepare their students for an unpredictable job market? On this episode of The Report Card , Nat Malkus discusses these questions and more with Hollis Robbins . Hollis Robbins is a professor of English at the University of Utah, where she was formerly Dean of the College of Humanities. She writes about AI in higher education on her Substack, Anecdotal Value . Show Notes: It's Later Than You Think Last Mile Education Teaching Quality The Two-Minute Mile Problem What Should a University AI Czar Do? My AI Thinks Civics Is Black Studies

People in this episode

Host: Nat Malkus

Guest: Hollis Robbins

Topics covered

• AI in higher education
• role of human instructors
• university teaching methods
• job market preparation
• value proposition of universities

Keywords

• AI
• higher education
• university
• teaching
• job market
• Hollis Robbins
• Nat Malkus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Utah

Books & works: Anecdotal Value

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