Policy Development

The Impact of AI on Learning Assessment

Tue, 26 May 2026 19:08:28 Z

The 2026 EDUCAUSE Impact of AI on Learning Assessment Report examines AI’s impact on learning assessment, highlighting growing adoption, evolving practices, and the need for clearer policies and stronger AI literacy in higher education

The Impact of AI on Work in Higher Education

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:49:31 Z

In this research, we summarize work-related institutional AI strategies, policies, and guidelines; the risks, opportunities, and challenges associated with using AI for work in higher education; and specific examples of how staff and faculty use—and want to use—AI for work.

2025 Horizon Action Plan: Building Skills and Literacy for Teaching with GenAI

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:50:02 Z

Our expert panel examines the preferred future of GenAI in higher education and provides an action plan to help you get there.

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:49:40 Z

The 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study: Into the Digital AI Divide

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:58:09 Z

This report summarizes higher education’s experiences related to AI strategy and leadership, policies and guidelines, use cases, the higher education workforce, and the institutional digital divide.

Abstract: AI Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Durable Framework for Higher Education

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:00:59 Z

This paper examines the students, faculty, and staff need to understand the fundamentals of AI to able to effectively use AI tools and evaluate the outputs.

2024 EDUCAUSE Action Plan: AI Policies and Guidelines

Tue, 21 May 2024 17:22:02 Z

This Action Plan explores a policy framework that spans institutional governance, operations, and pedagogy regarding AI policies and guidelines.

2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:49:21 Z

The 2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

2024 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:07:24 Z

This report summarizes higher education’s experiences related to AI strategic planning and readiness, policies and procedures, workforce, and its future.

Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:07:03 Z

The Digital Library Federation developed this document to help Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) institutions work to adopt accessibility best practices in their digital libraries by implementing an accessibility policy.

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Generative AI

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:39:55 Z

This report describes an ideal future for generative AI in higher education, drawing on the insights of a small panel of teaching and learning higher education experts, focusing on a 10-year timescale.

2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Privacy

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:25:49 Z

This Horizon Action Plan is offered to the privacy and higher education communities as an actionable tool to help guide our thinking about tomorrow and to help inspire us to plan and take action today.

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:28:50 Z

This issue of Research Library Issues (RLI) opens up a conversation that ARL will continue to focus on in partnerships, and in formal and informal forums, particularly in the context of advocacy and public policy, institutional policies, research and learning community practices, and leadership development.

7 Things You Should Know About Accessibility Policy

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:24:34 Z

Accessibility policies frame standards and expectations for how a college or university’s programs, services, and facilities serve the needs of people with disabilities.

IT Considerations in Implementing Preferred Name Policies

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:10:24 Z

This document lists some IT and policy questions that must be considered in implementing processes within IT systems to support a student’s gender identity, such as preferred name, preferred gender specification, and preferred pronoun (collectively referred to as “preferred name” in this resource).

Evolving Coherent Systems of Accountability for Next Generation Learning: A Decision Framework

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:38:02 Z

Council of Chief State School Officers, Jan 2015. A guide for state policymakers for developing an accountability system that supports next gen learning.

Copyright Challenges in a MOOC Environment

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:34:51 Z

The intersection of copyright and the scale and delivery of MOOCs highlights the enduring tensions between academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and copyright law in higher education.

Preparing for Back-to-School BYOD

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:33:26 Z

With the BYOD trend on campus growing ever stronger, an IT network analyst shares his checklist to help ensure that your campus network is ready to manage the onslaught.

Developing Social Media Guidance

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:32:41 Z

Social media developers innovate at a pace that defies version numbers. Communications may have greater permanence than an author originally planned.

Top 10 Higher Education State Policy Issues for 2017

Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:25:10 Z

This American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) paper provides a review of higher education policy issues that state lawmakers are most likely to discuss this coming year.