Papers
Long-form research on AI and how people actually learn.
FOUNDATIONS SERIES
The Infiltration Strategy
How AI Will Take Over Education and Replace the Curriculum
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · May 2026 · 17 min read
Synthetic Work
What Scenario-Based Learning Was Supposed to Be
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · Apr 2026 · 26 min read
The Sensing Engine
Why Coaching AI That Cannot See Is Still Blind — and how one sensing layer powers both the coach and the simulation
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · Apr 2026 · 24 min read
The Modal AI Coach
Why Almost Every Coaching Theory Is Right (But Also Wrong) and How AI Can Put All of These Theories Into Practice
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · Apr 2026 · 22 min read
Reading the Learner
Why an AI Coach That Cannot See the Person in Front of It Cannot Coach — and what modern systems get right, get wrong, and cannot yet do
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · Apr 2026 · 21 min read
How to Get Started With Generative AI
Skip the training. Try something impossible. Get hooked.
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · Apr 2026 · 10 min read
Your $5 Million AI Investment Just Bought You a Faster Typewriter
Why Most Organizations Are Catastrophically Misunderstanding What AI Can Do For Learning
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · Apr 2026 · 15 min read
The 2 Sigma Revolution
How AI Will Transform Life Sciences Training from Compliance to Excellence
Brandon Dickens & Danielle Groff · Sep 2025 · 14 min read
The Course is Dead (But L&D Hasn’t Gotten the Memo)
Why AI Tutors Will Make Educational Institutions as Quaint as Medieval Guilds
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · Aug 2025 · 10 min read
The Story Your Data Is Trying to Tell You
Why Narrative Data Will Be the Most Valuable Asset in AI-Powered Learning
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · Jul 2025 · 18 min read
AI Solves the Most Important Challenge in Education
Educators have known the secret to exceptional learning since 1984. AI will finally unlock it for everyone.
Gregg Collins & Brandon Dickens · Jun 2025 · 6 min read