Takeaways from the CESIM Elite Instructor Workshop 2026, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Tawnya Means.
At this year's CESIM Elite Instructor Workshop, keynote speaker Dr. Tawnya Means opened with a question that reframes almost every conversation happening in higher education right now. When we ask how to prepare students for a world of AI, we usually reach for the obvious answer: teach them the tools. Run a prompt-engineering workshop. Offer a certification. But according to Means — founder and Principal at Inspire Higher Ed, co-founder and Chief Academic Officer of AdvancAI Higher Ed, and author of The Collaboration Chronicle: Human+AI in Education — the students themselves are asking for something else.
