Post by Noodle

Noodle Founder & CEO John Katzman sat down with the The EdUp Experience podcast to talk about AI in higher ed, mapping two separate but parallel paths for where it fits. In the classroom, use AI to make learning better. In student services and academic support, use AI to make things cheaper and faster. Different goals, different standards for success. He used Noodle's own product, Dialogue, as an example. A student turns in a paper, then gets invited into a quick Zoom with an AI agent that actually grills them on it, asking why they made certain choices or how something ties back to what the class covered. The point is finding out fast whether the student actually understood the material. On academic integrity, John pointed to a simple idea from criminology: certainty of getting caught deters more than harsh punishment does. Build that consistency into how assignments work, and the incentive to cheat mostly disappears. Good listen if you're thinking about where AI actually belongs in your institution right now. Link in comments.