The question many educators have been asking is deceptively simple: Did this student use AI to complete the assignment? In August 2026, that question is becoming less useful: not because academic integrity no longer matters, but because AI detectors cannot provide the certainty that high-stakes decisions require. A recent Inside Higher Ed report describes a growing number of institutions prohibiting or discouraging reliance on AI detectors. The reasons include false positives

What the National Needs Assessment reveals about OER, open educational resources, and the next layer of affordable learning support. Open education has never lacked values. The field knows how to talk about access, affordability, equity, student agency, shared knowledge, and the public good. Those values matter. They’re why many of us found our way into this work in the first place. But the Open Education Association’s National Needs Assessment points to a different kind of c

And how to fix them So, you’ve decided to move toward Open Educational Resources. Maybe you’re excited about lowering costs for students. Maybe you want faculty to have more freedom to adapt materials. Maybe you see OER as part of a larger commitment to access, equity, teaching, learning, and institutional change. And then reality shows up. The materials do not quite fit the course. Faculty are overwhelmed. The “free” resource takes hours to evaluate, revise, or rebuild. Lice