Current Issue

July 2024

Why We Teach

Teaching and Learning with—and from—Elephants: Embracing the Symbiocene

Professional Growth

Teaching and Learning with—and from—Elephants: Embracing the Symbiocene

July 22, 2024 | By Mays Imad

Teaching Gender and Sexuality in a Divisive Climate

Classroom Climate

Teaching Gender and Sexuality in a Divisive Climate

July 22, 2024 | By Lori O’Malley and Christi Mackey

Creating an AI Tutor Tailored to Your Course

Teaching with Technology

Creating an AI Tutor Tailored to Your Course

July 22, 2024 | By Michael Rota

This Month’s Articles

The Indicator of a Great Teacher

Stephen L. Chew
July 15, 2024

A childhood friend of mine passed away a few years ago. We worked on the high school yearbook together, but what was for me an extracurricular became for

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Why Did They Share That? Understanding Student Self-Disclosures of Mental Health

Christopher Gjesfjeld
July 15, 2024

Since I began teaching 15 years ago, I’ve noticed more and more students self-disclose aspects of their mental health in the classroom each year. Initially, I thought this

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Leveraging Generative AI for Effective Rubric Development

Caitlin Riegel and Jennie M. Carr
July 15, 2024

Rubrics have been indispensable in education for providing clarity on performance expectations, consistency in grading, and detailed feedback to students. Generative AI has revolutionized rubric development, offering higher

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My YouTube Teaching Playlist

Nichole DeWall
July 8, 2024

It wasn’t until I described how watching Ian McKellen’s explication of Macbeth helped me recover from a lousy class session that I realized how often I turn to

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Using Game-Based Teaching to Engage Reluctant Learners

Andrew Davies
July 8, 2024

Picture this: Days before your semester begins, your students are messaging each other about how excited they are to begin your class. Then, during the semester, they show

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Creating an OER Textbook with Artificial Intelligence

Roy Wood
July 8, 2024

Many of us would like to have a textbook tailored to our specific course, but since publishers cannot produce individualized textbooks, we often settle for the best available

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Exploring AI Mentors

Regan A. R. Gurung
July 1, 2024

Have you activated your own AI companion yet? Not sure how to explain a certain concept in class? Having trouble coming up with a new assignment? Feeling burnt

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Why I Teach: A Reflection

Char Miller
July 1, 2024

Why do I teach? You might as well ask, “Why are you breathing?” That’s how essential teaching has been in the daily pattern of my life since 1980.

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How to Craft Prompts for AI

John Orlando
July 1, 2024

Crafting effective AI prompts figures to be one of the most important skills students will need in their professional lives. Instructors can prepare students for postcollegiate success by

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“Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.”

John Dewey, Democracy and Education (1916)