EDUCAUSE Shop Talk

Recorded live at the 2026 EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Conference, Sophie and Jenay talk with Ben Archer and Michael Tran Duff about frameworks for supporting innovation in higher education while protecting data privacy in the age of AI.

Sophie and Jenay are joined by Kathe Pelletier and Silvina Padilla to discuss potential futures of higher education and technology. They share insights from discussions facilitated by The 100 Year EdTech Project that consider what higher education, and the world, could look like in fifty years and the actions we can take now to build our preferred future.

Sophie and Jenay talk with Nadeem Syed of Western Governor's University and Shannon Shank of California Institute of the Arts about how institutions of any size can consider foundational approaches to data for informed decision-making.

Sophie and Jenay are joined by undergraduate student Freddy Ramirez, faculty and AI innovator Ayham Boucher, and researcher Kristen Gay to discuss the 2026 EDUCAUSE Students and Technology Report and its real‑world implications for students and faculty.

Sophie and Jenay talk with a team from the University of Notre Dame about their research on using smart glasses to support accessibility in teaching and learning.

Sophie and Jenay talk with Tacy Holliday and Joseph Drasin about their research on identifying change fatigue in teams and their related EDUCAUSE Review article that explores key insights from that work.

To mark 2026 Data Privacy Day, Sophie and Jenay talk with higher education Chief Privacy Officers Pegah Parsi and Tryphaena Hooper about building a privacy-forward culture, protecting and governing personal data, and understanding the autonomous nature of privacy.

Sophie and Jenay discuss the latest EDUCAUSE report, The Impact of AI on Work in Higher Education, and the implications of artificial intelligence on the higher education workforce with guests Jessica Palatka and Lancie Affonso.