The Missing Layer

Every campus already collects an enormous amount of student data: grades, surveys, engagement metrics, persistence indicators. Yet the most revealing layer is almost always missing: what students think about their own learning, in their own words.

Reflection has long been recognized as the practice that turns experience into learning. The challenge has been making it sustainable, structured, and actionable at the institutional level, without adding more reporting burden on faculty or staff.

In this hour-long AAC&U webinar, Rebecca Thomas of Bucknell University and Jeffrey Yan of Digication will show how conversational AI can scaffold student reflection in a way that is pedagogically sound, sensitive to context, and capable of generating continuous, aggregable evidence of learning, belonging, and growth across the institution.

You'll leave with a concrete model for connecting what students reflect on, what institutions measure, and who stays enrolled, from a single continuous data source.