Learning Ecosystems

Building a Thriving Organizational Culture: Strategies for Succes [Caplette]

On 03/30/2026, in collaboration, communications, corporate / business world, culture, ideas, morals/values, organizational change, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Building a Thriving Organizational Culture: Strategies for Success — from learningguild.com by Genevieve Caplette

Characteristics of Strong Culture
Although each organization’s culture is unique, strong cultures share several common traits. They communicate openly, maintain trust across all levels, and reinforce their values through daily actions rather than slogans. Recognition is frequent and meaningful. Collaboration is encouraged over competition, and employees feel psychologically safe expressing ideas or concerns. These cultures evolve as the organization grows, ensuring alignment between stated values and lived behavior.
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How to Strengthen Culture
A thriving environment is built through everyday habits: transparent communication, active listening, constructive feedback, and ensuring employees have the resources to grow. Embedding values into hiring, onboarding, recognition, and decision-making reinforces culture at every level. Sustaining culture requires ongoing attention—listening regularly, adjusting to evolving needs, and ensuring leaders continue to model the behaviors the organization expects.

Why Educators Must Become AI Literate, And How to Start [Soundar-Shah]

On 03/28/2026, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, teachers, by Daniel Christian

Why Educators Must Become AI Literate, And How to Start — from edmentum.com by Priten Soundar-Shah

Much of our focus these few years has been spent helping students learn how to use AI responsibly, especially to combat cheating and plagiarism, and also with consideration given to productive learning, critical thinking, and online safety. But we are still behind on building fundamental literacy for teachers. Recent data supports this literacy gap. For example, Microsoft Education found that 80% of teachers say they are using AI, but 60% have received no or little training. We cannot continue to expect teachers to build student AI literacy without defining what success looks like for educator literacy, and there we’re falling short.

In some instances, AI literacy in the classroom is being defined as the ability to use chat tools to produce some sort of outcome. By that standard, we’re doing much better than we were three years ago. Students and teachers are increasingly turning to AI tools to produce study aids, outlines, drafts, and other content. And, some schools do provide training that is often concentrated on a particular vendor’s tool and how to use it effectively in the classroom.

However, we are leaving out the training that is necessary to help educators learn how to decide when to use or not use the technology and what the implications of that are. For example, I’ve spoken to teachers who have access to a variety of AI tools, have received training on how to use them, but still don’t incorporate them into their workflow, because they don’t know if it’s “right.”

AI and the Law: What Educators Need to Know About Responsible Use in a Rapidly Changing Landscape — from rdene915.com by Dr. Rachelle Dené Poth, JD

As both an attorney and educator who has spent more than eight years researching, teaching, presenting, and writing about AI, I have worked with schools across K–12 and higher education that are navigating these exact questions. The legal implications of AI are not barriers to innovation, but I consider them to serve as guardrails that assist schools with adopting technology responsibly. The key is protecting students, educators, and institutions and staying informed. Understanding the legal landscape and any potential legal implications as a result of the use of AI in classrooms helps schools move forward with confidence rather than hesitation.

Sections of Rachelle’s posting include:

Why AI and the Law Matter in Education
Key Laws That Shape AI Use in Schools
Data Privacy and Vendor Responsibility
Transparency Builds Trust With Students and Families
Accessibility, Equity, and Emerging Legal Considerations
Teaching Digital Citizenship With AI Literacy
Supporting Schools and Organizations Through AI and Legal Guidance
Moving Forward With Confidence

Some wisdom for us via Scripture

On 03/27/2026, in Daniel S. Christian, ethics, faith, global / globalization, hearts -- matters of the heart, morals/values, relationships, religion, society, youth, by Daniel Christian

Proverbs 17:9

Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,
but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.

³You will keep in perfect peace
    those whose minds are steadfast,
    because they trust in you.
⁴Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.

Psalm 25:11

For the sake of your name, Lord,
forgive my iniquity, though it is great.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,
but the Lord tests the heart.

Philippians 2:5-11

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

Psalm 25:15

My eyes are ever on the Lord,
for only he will release my feet from the snare.

Hidden in Plain Sight: How Microschools Can Unlock the Power of Public Libraries [Blassingame & Flynn]

On 03/25/2026, in education, education reform, engagement / engaging students, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, learning hubs & pods & microschooling, learning spaces, library / librarians, parents/guardians, society, student-related, teachers, United States, youth, by Daniel Christian

Hidden in Plain Sight: How Microschools Can Unlock the Power of Public Libraries — from microschoolingcenter.org by Tiffany Blassingame & Erin Flynn

The Library as a Learning Campus
Many microschool founders are wrestling with the same core challenge: how do you provide students with enriching, hands-on experiences when you’re working with a small team and a lean budget? Erin’s answer is deceptively simple — walk through the library’s front door.

Modern public libraries are far more than book repositories. Most educators walk past an entire ecosystem of free resources without realizing what’s available. Need printing, computers, or digital tools? Libraries offer them at little or no cost. Looking for hands-on science programming? Many branches host makerspaces and science stations built for exactly that kind of exploration. Need a space to hold a small class, workshop, or seminar? Bookable collaboration rooms are often just a phone call away.

Beyond the physical infrastructure, libraries frequently offer life skills programming — resume writing, financial literacy, job readiness — that can support the families surrounding a microschool, not just its students. And in some branches, social workers are embedded on site, providing the kind of wraparound support that few microschools could ever access on their own.

Libraries are also deeply invested in expanding their community reach. A microschool brings exactly the kind of engaged, mission-driven partnership that many branches are actively seeking. The relationship benefits both sides from day one.

Meta, YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction trial — from by Ian Duncan
A Los Angeles jury awarded $3 million in compensation to a young woman who alleged she had become addicted to the platforms as a child.

A Los Angeles jury found social media giant Meta and video platform YouTube negligent in a landmark trial, awarding $3 million in compensation to a young woman who alleged she had become addicted to the companies’ platforms as a child.

The verdict came at the end of a month-long trial that featured testimony by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a day after a jury in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million in penalties for endangering children. The twin verdicts are signs that legal protections which for decades made tech companies seem almost impervious are beginning to crack, as lawyers accuse the platforms of putting addictive or otherwise harmful features into their platforms.

With the armor of Silicon Valley companies fractured, they will now have to size up their appetite for future courtroom battles. There are thousands more lawsuits waiting to be heard, with young internet users, parents, school districts and state attorneys general all seeking to hold the industry accountable.

Legal AI Access at 83%, But Trust Issues Remain [artificiallawyer.com]

On 03/24/2026, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, emerging technologies, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent systems, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, United States, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Legal AI Access at 83%, But Trust Issues Remain — from artificiallawyer.com

A new survey of over 200 inhouse and law firm leaders provides solid evidence that while AI tools are now ‘standard’ across our sector, that trust in AI outputs fundamentally drives usage, along with ROI – and vice versa.

The data, from ALSP Factor, shows that 83% had ‘broad AI access’, which is up from 61% in 2025, and in itself is a very positive development that tells us legal AI is now becoming ubiquitous for commercial lawyers, with around 54% using such tools ‘often’.

The AI-based learning platform of the future will be constantly doing this

On 03/24/2026, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business, career development, change, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, education technology, emerging technologies, future, game-changing environment, generational differences, global / globalization, ideas, innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning preferences, lifelong learning, more voice more choice more control, personalized/customized learning, platforms, reinvent, skills, society, student-related, surviving, tools, United States, workplace, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
I have been proposing that the AI-based learning platform of the future will be constantly doing this — every single day. It will know what the in-demand skills are — at any given moment in time. It will then be able to direct you to resources that will help you gain those skills. Though in my vision, the system is querying actual/open job descriptions, not analyzing learning data from enterprise learners. Perhaps I should add that to the vision.

Coursera’s Job Skills Report 2026: Top skills for your students — from coursera.org

The Job Skills Report 2026 analyzes learning data from more than 6 million enterprise learners to identify the future job skills organizations need most. It’s designed for HR and L&D leaders; data, IT, and software & product development leaders; higher education administrators; and government agencies seeking actionable insights on workforce skills trends and AI-driven transformation.
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Drawing on data from 6 million enterprise learners across nearly 7,000 organizations, the Job Skills Report 2026 guides you through the skills reshaping the global economy. This year’s analysis spans Data, IT, and Software & Product Development—and the Generative AI skills becoming essential for every role.

Is the eLearning authoring tool dead? [Milloway & Slade]

On 03/24/2026, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, adult learning, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, communities of practice, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, instructional design, Learning Experience Design, platforms, productivity / tips and tricks, programming, tools, trends, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Is the eLearning authoring tool dead? — from linkedin.com by Melissa Milloway & Tim Slade

…which links to the video below:

Are we not shooting ourselves in the foot with AI and recent college graduates? [Christian]

On 03/24/2026, in 21st century, adjunct faculty, apprenticeships, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business, career development, change, changing business models, colleges, community colleges, corporate / business world, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, emerging technologies, experimentation, faculty/staff, game-changing environment, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), intelligent systems, internships, learning ecosystem, liberal arts, marketplaces, parents/guardians, productivity / tips and tricks, reinvent, skills, society, sociology, strategy, student-related, teaching & learning, technologies for your home, tools, trends, United States, universities, vendors, vocational / trades, workplace, youth, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
The types of postings/articles (such as the one below) make me ask, are we not shooting ourselves in the foot with AI and recent college graduates? If the bottom rungs continue to disappear, internships and apprenticeships can only go so far. There aren’t enough of them — especially valuable ones. So as this article points out, there will be threats to the long-term health of our talent pipelines unless we can take steps to thwart those impacts — and to do so fairly soon.

To me…vocational training and jobs are looking better all the time — i.e., plumbers, carpenters, electricians, mechanics, and more.

Can New Graduates Compete With AI? — from builtin.combyRichard Johnson
The increasing adoption of AI automation is compressing early-career jobs. How should new graduates get a foothold in the economy now?

Summary: AI is hollowing out entry-level roles by automating routine tasks, eliminating a rung on the career ladder. New graduates face intense competition and a rising skill floor. While firms gain short-term productivity, they risk a long-term talent shortage by eliminating junior training grounds.

Conversations about AI have covered all grounds: hype, fear and slop. But while some roll their eyes at yet another automation headline, soon?to?be graduates are watching the labor market with a very different level of urgency. They’re entering a world where the old paradox of needing experience to get experience is colliding with a new reality: AI is absorbing the standardized, routine tasks that once defined entry?level work. The result isn’t just a shift in job descriptions or skill-requirements, but rather a structural reshaping of the career pipeline.

Entry-level workers face an outsized disruption to their long-term career trajectories. They have the least buffer to adapt given their lack of relevant job market experience and heightened financial pressure to secure a job quickly with the student-debt repayment periods for recent graduates looming.

Momentum early in one’s career matters, and the first job on a resume shapes future compensation bands and opportunities. It also serves as a signal for perceived specialization or, at minimum, interest. Losing that foothold has compounding effects to one’s career ladder.

Also relevant/see:

New Anthropic Institute to Study Risks and Economic Effects of Advanced AI — from campustechnology.com by John K. Waters

Key Takeaways

Anthropic has launched the Anthropic Institute, a new research effort focused on the biggest societal challenges posed by more powerful AI systems.
The institute will study how advanced AI could affect the economy, the legal system, public safety, and broader social outcomes.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark will lead the institute in a new role as the company’s head of public benefit.
The new unit brings together Anthropic’s existing red-teaming, societal impacts, and economic research work, while adding new hires and new research areas.

Some Scripture for us

On 03/23/2026, in ethics, faith, global / globalization, hearts -- matters of the heart, morals/values, relationships, religion, society, by Daniel Christian

Proverbs 3:27

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in your power to act.

2 Peter 1:5-8

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 40:9-11

9 I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly;
I do not seal my lips, Lord,
as you know.
10 I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;
I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help.
I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness
from the great assembly.
11 Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;
may your love and faithfulness always protect me.

“Agentic AI isn’t coming for training programs. It’s coming for the trainers who can’t adapt.” [Martin] + other items re: AI in our learning ecosystems

On 03/23/2026, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, ethics, experimentation, future, game-changing environment, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, learner profiles, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, morals/values, platforms, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, training / L&D, UK, universities, vendors, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Here is Chris Martin’s posting on LinkedIn.com:

Here is Dominik Mate Kovacs’ posting on LinkedIn.com:

The AI ‘hivemind’: Why so many student essays sound alike — from hechingerreport.org by Jill Barshay
A study of more than 70 large language models found similar answers to brainstorming and creative writing prompts

The answers were frequently indistinguishable across different models by different companies that have different architectures and use different training data. The metaphors, imagery, word choices, sentence structures — even punctuation — often converged. Jiang’s team called this phenomenon “inter-model homogeneity” and quantified the overlaps and similarities. To drive the point home, Jiang titled her paper, the “Artificial Hivemind.” The study won a best paper award at the annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in December 2025, one of the premier gatherings for AI research.

AI Has No Moral Compass. Do You? — from michelleweise.substack.com by Michelle Weise & Dana Walsh
Why the Age of AI Demands We Take Character Formation Seriously

Here’s something to chew on:

Anthropic, the company behind Claude — a chatbot used by 30 million users per month — has exactly one person (whom we know of) working on AI ethics. One. A young Scottish philosopher is doing the vital work of training a large language model to discern right from wrong.

I don’t say this to shame Anthropic. In fact, Anthropic appears to be the only company (that we know of) being explicit about the moral foundations and reasoning of its chatbot. Hundreds of millions of users worldwide are leveraging tools from other LLMs that do not appear to have an explicit moral compass being cultivated from within.

I raise this because this is yet another example of where we are: extraordinary technical power advancing without an equally strong moral infrastructure to support it.

Why do we keep producing people who are skilled but not wise?

Across the divide: reimagining faculty-staff collaboration in higher education — from timeshighereducation.com by Saskia van de Gevel
Academic units do best when they harness different viewpoints – from field scientists and curriculum designers to extension professionals – to drive innovation and relevance. Saskia van de Gevel offers proactive advice

Universities are not sustained by individual leaders or isolated units. They are sustained by teams of people who bring different kinds of expertise to a shared mission. When faculty and professional staff collaborate as genuine partners – aligned around outcomes, clear about roles and committed to mutual respect – institutions become more resilient, innovative and effective.

Also from timeshighereducation.com, see:

The five levels of learning designer support — from timeshighereducation.com by Daniel Searson
Learning designers and academics may have different expectations when it comes to collaborating on course design. Here’s how a five-point scale can help
Harness the power of your university librarian in the age of information chaos — from timeshighereducation.com by Ben Meunier
Find out how to tap the mine of knowledge your university library has, for trustworthy research sources, data expertise and information literacy advice
How employability teams can strengthen academic programmes — from timeshighereducation.com by Hanene Duprat
Working like recruitment partners, rather than just career advisers, can help align teaching with industry needs, writes Hanene Duprat
Excerpts:

Again, we don’t send them 200 CVs. We might send 20, but they’re meticulously shortlisted. The employer saves time, the student feels they are being taken seriously and trust builds quickly on both sides.

And because we work closely with employers, we learn something universities often struggle to find out early enough: what the market is asking for now.

What academics need to know: we can’t do this without you
If I could say one thing to academic colleagues anywhere, it’s that employability can’t sit next to the curriculum. It has to live with it.

The benefits of engaging third space practitioners in curriculum development — from timeshighereducation.com by Steve Briggs
Third space practitioners are often overlooked in the curriculum development process, to everyone’s detriment. Here’s a look at the viewpoints they can offer and how to engage them better
Teaching deaf, deafblind and hard-of-hearing students: practical steps that benefit everyone — from timeshighereducation.com by Annelies Kusters
When educators design communication to work across multiple modes from the outset, classrooms become more accessible – and more effective – for everyone, says Annelies Kusters

Check out some of the features an AI-powered LMS provides you with!

On 03/23/2026, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, adult learning, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, assessment, business, career development, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, ideas, innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, languages and translation, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, platforms, skills, training / L&D, United States, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Here is Pradnya’s posting out on LinkedIn.com:

From DSC…note these excerpts from Pradnya’s posting:

I’m not manually assigning 400 people anymore ? They’re actually taking relevant courses now
Shows me the data ? Suggests courses to fix it ? I look like a strategic genius
Completion rates up 34% ? Nobody’s “stuck” anymore

Pradnya links to a page out at ParadisoSolutions.com. Check out some of the functionality this AI-powered system provides:

Also from Pradnya, see this posting:

Learning Ecosystems

Building a Thriving Organizational Culture: Strategies for Succes [Caplette]

Some wisdom for us via Scripture

Some Scripture for us

Across the divide: reimagining faculty-staff collaboration in higher education [van de Gevel]; plus several other items from timeshighereducation.com

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