Blue Brazelton
I work where higher education meets the systems that are quietly remaking it: technology/AI, organizational theory, and the day-to-day of how institutions evolve and offer learning environments and try to change.
Almost every day, someone does something that we used to call "impossible" and we're not willing to call it magic?
AI Governance Study — analysis & writing phase
A multi-institution dataset on how universities are formalizing (or not) the policies, committees, and review processes that surround generative AI adoption. Currently moving from collection into analysis.
Read the project notesRecent — AI research and applications
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Two sessions accepted at the AAC&U Conference on AI and Higher Education (Oct 28–30, Washington, DC).
Reclaim your time, reclaim your agency: AI as productivity infrastructure for the professoriate (Innovation session); and Beyond compliance: Reading AI governance as a signal of institutional digital maturity (Theory to Practice session, Policy/Governance/Ethics track). -
Instructional design in the age of AI: From frameworks to practice.
With Susan Purrington. Book proposal, Emerald Publishing. -
AI in the onboarding process; and Beyond detection: How AI governance frameworks bridge the assessment gap.
With Maria Pokrovskaya in NODA's Seamless transition; and (invited) in P. Seuwou (Ed.), AI-resilient assessment design in higher education, IGI Global. -
Professional development in the age of AI.
Delivered as keynote panel at NAU Employee Development Days. -
AI + Higher Ed.
New writing home on Substack, cross-posted from writing. -
Workshop.
Three build-through-AI-collaboration projects live: The Hourglass, DCC TTRPG, The Dimming.