293 - Guests: José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, AI in education authors, part 2

293 - Guests: José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, AI in education authors, part 2

Author: aiandyou January 26, 2026 Duration: 35:30
This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . I am talking with José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson about AI in postsecondary education, because they are authors of the new book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. José is leader of the Bowen Innovation Group, consulting on innovation in higher education and was the 11th president of Goucher College. He has held leadership roles at Stanford, the University of Southampton, Georgetown, Miami University, and Southern Methodist University, and his book Teaching Naked reshaped conversations about technology and pedagogy. He is an international jazz pianist and edited the Cambridge Companion to Conducting. Eddie Watson is Vice President for Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities and is the Founding Director of their Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.  He directed the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia, and is a Fellow of the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education. In our conclusion, we talk about the future of textbooks, José and Eddie’s meta-analysis of AI literacy frameworks and standardizing AI literacy training, the evolution of teaching models and practices like lectures, and the future of degrees themselves. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines! Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

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