AI tools are major time-savers and have helped me overcome those tedious or creatively challenging parts of instructional planning. AI tools can assist educators with discussion prompts, course projects, rubric generation, and career-focused assessments. AI can take some of the heavy lifting off your plate,
When a student turns in an early draft of a research paper, business plan, design project, or any other work in progress, it embodies the student’s creative vision. For many students, even a first draft can feel connected to their personal identity and ability. A
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
Diving into the world of academic research feels like learning a new language for novice researchers. Concepts like ontology, epistemology, research paradigms, and methodology can be daunting. To help our graduate students learn research methods, we built an AI agent that guides them through the
When faculty tell me their online students “just don’t engage,” I always want to ask a simple question: Do your students actually know you? Not your credentials. Not your syllabus. You.
A business major must tell a teammate their work is jeopardizing a project. A nursing student listens as a patient hesitates, clearly withholding something important. A new professional struggles to push back against an unfair workload. These moments arise in different fields, yet they share
We have all been there: sitting alone with a microphone, narrating slide after slide, wondering whether our students feel a connection to the person behind the screen. In online pedagogy, research tells us that social factors such as instructor presence are a key driver of
There’s a lot of discussion in higher education about “AI literacy” and the need to teach it but less clarity about what AI literacy really is. Once we understand what AI literacy is, we will see how and why we need to teach it.
