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AI in Higher Ed The Brown University AI cheating case highlights the limits of AI detection. Learn why better course design, active reading, and social annotation offer a more sustainable […]
Faculty Spotlight See how Professor Jonathan Rees uses primary sources, social annotation, and Hypothesis in Canvas to create more active, AI resilient history assignments. As higher education continues to wrestle […]
Year in review · Academic year 2025–26 How social reading is transforming a solitary task into a collaborative learning process. Insights from 20,000+ college courses. By Joe Ferraro CEO, […]
Reading Assignments Aren’t the Problem. Reading Participation Is. Every college instructor knows the feeling. You carefully select a chapter, article, or research paper that will help students understand a key […]
Higher education has a reading engagement problem. Students are assigned articles, textbook chapters, research papers, and primary sources every week, yet instructors often have little visibility into how students interact […]
What Are Social Annotation Platforms? Social annotation platforms are educational technology tools that allow students and instructors to highlight, comment on, question, and discuss course materials directly in the margins […]
There’s a version of the AI problem in higher education that doesn’t get talked about enough. It’s not plagiarism, exactly. It’s something more structural: the growing gap between what students […]
In many LMS-based courses, students spend most of their time consuming information quietly and independently. They read assignments alone, watch lectures alone, complete quizzes alone, and submit work alone. Even […]
For many students, reading in higher education can feel isolated. They are assigned articles, textbook chapters, PDFs, and research materials with the expectation that learning will happen independently before discussion […]
For many instructors, the problem is no longer finding reading materials. The problem is getting students to meaningfully engage with them. Across higher education, faculty are seeing the same patterns: […]