The fact that university administrators do shit like this (CONSTANTLY) without consulting the faculty who have passed many layers of review to be the acknowledged experts in this field just proves how very very little respect admins have for the knowledge they’re supposed to cherish.
Did they synergize it with their MOOC on the blockchain? Did they at least lost it beside their NFTs on Yahoo? :-D
It's bad enough when companies blindly slap AI onto things and call it an improvement. When universities do this, it undermines the very mission of higher education.
CSU has internationally renowned experts on education, digital learning, surveillance and capitalism, social welfare! But sure the CTO read a laundered press release in TechCrunch.
How are other people supposed to come to universities’ defense when the people making decisions openly flout the institution’s own expertise?
All of this. It’s so infuriating. They’d rather pour money into outside consultants and shiny toys they learned about in an hour at some higher ed administration conference than consult with the field experts they hired to teach their students. Make it make sense.
It’s such a glaringly obvious indictment of management culture but somehow it doesn’t matter because it just happens again and again and again.