At their core, universities exist to help learners develop judgment, purpose, agency, and confidence. As AI takes on more routine knowledge transfer, higher education can reimagine its purpose—and lean into that mission more intentionally than ever.
In episode 3 of The Office Hours Podcast by Coursera, host Marni Baker Stein sits down with Dr. Paul LeBlanc, Visiting Scholar and Special Advisor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Together, they discuss how this moment invites higher education to rethink how we teach, connect, and assess.
In this episode, you’ll learn about:
The shift from knowledge transfer to human transformation
Balancing foundational knowledge, human skills, and AI
Educators becoming “curators of community”
Why assessment must be redesigned to measure what students can do
Tune in to The Office Hours Podcast by Coursera for real-world strategies that will help you turn your institutional data into a lifelong student asset.
