Ep21 - How the CSU Learns From Itself | CSU AI Innovations, Part 1

What happens when the nation’s largest public university system tries to figure out what AI means for higher education?  In the first episode of our CSU AI Innovations Series (available in video format on YouTube), we visit San Diego State University, where a campus survey grew into a statewide effort to understand how students, faculty, and staff are experiencing AI. With more than 94,000 responses in 2025 alone, the CSU AI Survey offers an extraordinary window into what’s happening across the system. But collecting data is one thing. Turning it into meaningful change is another. We meet the faculty and administrators using those insights to inform university policy, support faculty development, and help academic departments rethink their curricula. Along the way, we encounter some fascinating experiments in AI-enhanced teaching, from community oral histories and student-built applications to active learning classrooms designed around what we already know about how people learn. What emerges is a story about what becomes possible when institutions listen to their communities, invest in their people, and create opportunities for educators to learn from one another. CHAPTERS 0:00-2:02 Introduction: How Does a System Learn From Itself? 2:02-10:50 Surveying the CSU (Interview with EJ Sobo and David Goldberg) 10:51-13:23 From Data to Decisions (Interview with Sean Hauze) 13:24-17:14 Coherence Without Uniformity (Interview with Stephen Schellenberg) 17:15-27:39 Building the Conditions for Change (Interview with James Frazee) 27:40-33:36 Coherence Across the Curriculum (Interview with Norah Shultz and EJ Sobo) 33:37-41:57 Adapt, Not Adopt (Interview with DJ Hopkins) 41:58-50-24 What Should We Do Differently Now? (Interview with Alvin Henry) 50:25-57-36 Back to How Learning Works (Interview with Gena Sbeglia) 57:37 Conclusion: What Makes Collaboration Possible? My Robot Teacher's CSU AI Innovations Series is an eight-part video series that explores how educators across the California State University system are adapting to AI - and what we can learn from one another along the way. Visit https://www.youtube.com/@MyRobotTeacher to watch the video.