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AI and Business Schools with Tawnya Means

How is AI reshaping teaching and learning? And is business education keeping up?

This episode of The Global Exchange features a rich conversation with Tawnya Means, founder and principal at Inspire Higher Ed, co-founder of AdvancAI Higher Ed, and co-founder of AI Convergence — ventures collectively focused on helping higher education institutions lead AI transformation.

Drawing on a multi-year study of nearly 50 institutions, Tawnya unpacks the magnitude of the transformation that's underway and discusses how to use AI "as a learning machine, not an answering machine."

The conversation covers the difference between cognitive offloading and cognitive surrender, how AI can support business faculty with instruction and pedagogy, and why the single most critical success factor for schools navigating this moment isn't just the technology, but the faculty development and leadership surrounding it.

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Business schools do much more than educate managers and entrepreneurs. They have the power to help improve the world. Engaging through the Global Business School Network helps them achieve that together.

Our mission is to empower business schools worldwide to work together to strengthen the contributions of management education to the development needs of society.

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