In many classrooms right now, silence has become palpable. It may look like disengagement, exhaustion, anxiety, resistance, uncertainty, or some combination of these. This past semester, in one of my courses, I would ask the class an open-ended question about the day’s materials and wait
As July fades into August, faculty across the country gear up for the fall semester. We have spent our summer resting and relaxing, reading, and mentally preparing to welcome a new cohort of students into our classrooms. This is about the time when we scan
As I write, the faculty at Harvard have just voted to limit the number of A grades they award in any undergraduate course to a maximum of 20 percent of class enrollment in an effort to combat grade inflation (McMurtrie, 2026). This policy is an
It’s an age-old question of seasoned educators: Is it me who’s changed, or is it my students?
There is a wide variety of study tools that allow students to have a tutoring session on a topic or source of their choosing, including MagicSchool and general AI platforms like ChatGPT. But Google’s NotebookLM stands out by providing a repository for students or instructors
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Like many faculty, I’ve long assumed that building custom digital tools was work that belonged to someone else. I am not a programmer, but over the past year, I developed a series of interactive web applications for my anatomy and physiology courses using generative AI.AI
Many years ago, when I was in graduate school, I attended a high school college fair as an alumnus college representative. I had been an undergraduate at Carleton College, a small liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, and was enthusiastic about answering questions from prospective
As an instructor of bachelor’s-level courses in software development, where most assignments are code-based, I teach courses that are among the most vulnerable to AI misuse and outsourced learning. This reality left me with a foundational question: How can I structure my assessments so that
This past fall, I lost my job. As a tenured full professor at a state university, that is not a sentence I ever thought I would write. I study higher education, and I live in the state with the lowest public funding for its colleges,
