Biography
Tawnya Means, PhD, is co-founder and Chief Academic Officer of AdvancAI Higher Ed, founder & Principal at Inspire Higher Ed, and co-founder of AI Convergence — ventures collectively focused on helping higher education institutions lead AI transformation. She also serves as Strategic Innovation and AI Advisor at Bowling Green State University and Chief Learning Officer at AristAI. A long-standing AACSB seminar facilitator and published scholar, she holds a PhD in Information Science and Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri. With nearly two decades of experience across six continents, she is author of The Collaboration Chronicle: Human+AI in Education on Substack. Her work centers on evidence-based Human+AI partnerships that preserve what makes education irreplaceably human.
EDUCAUSE Publications
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The results of a 2010–2011 survey of mobile device ownership and use are helping the University of Florida make informed decisions today about how best to allocate limited resources to maximize the impact of its mobile initiatives.
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Given an expectation of digital literacy among students, why should we worry about student perceptions of CMS tools? For the same reason exemplary instructors stay aware of their students’ general learning style preferences—to evolve their teaching styles to meet diverse preferences and maximize learning while also attempting to develop and enhance students’ abilities to learn in different ways.