What 2026 Means for Access, Learning, and Work

Inside the Learning Experience with WGU Labs by WGU Labs

Episode notes

2025 wasn’t just another year for higher education; it was the moment theory turned into reality. Institutions stopped planning for AI and started deploying it. Things broke. New tools emerged. And long-standing assumptions about how students learn, how credentials work, and who controls educational pathways began to crack.

In this episode of the Inside the Learning Experience Podcast, we dive deep into our 2025 End of Year Impact Report to examine how AI is being used to tackle higher education’s most persistent wicked problems.