Dr. Kimberly Arnold is the Director of Teaching and Learning Program at EDUCAUSE, where she leads efforts to advance community inspired, data-informed, teaching and learning across the higher education landscape. She is a nationally recognized thought leader with two decades of experience shaping transformative strategy at the intersection of academic innovation, digital ecosystems, and learner success.
Prior to joining EDUCAUSE, Dr. Arnold served as Distinguished Director of the Learning Analytics Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she led institutional efforts to modernize teaching and learning infrastructure, advance responsible data practices, and promote technological innovation to optimize the teaching and learning environment through a student-centric lens.
The potential sources of disruption to teaching and learning are expanding, as are the consequences, increasing the importance of being able to maintain high-quality academic activity during interruptions.
The interruption of service for the Canvas LMS after a ransomware attack left many in higher education reckoning with how to sustain academic activities when critical services are down.
The 2026 EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Horizon Report highlights how artificial intelligence, enrollment pressures, policy shifts, and sustainability concerns are reshaping instructional practice and institutional strategy.
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