The allure of the copy-and-paste approach to course design is ever present. Many of us, out of what often feels like sheer necessity, have fully embraced the comfort of teaching from muscle memory, recalling with ease the structure and rhythms of a course and therefore
Education once came through the total immersion technique. The apprentice worked with a master within the profession to learn the master’s craft, whether that profession was blacksmithing or soldiering. Students learned by doing within the setting of the job itself, which helped them get a
Whether you teach synchronously online or create asynchronous video content for your students, producing professional-looking material has always been a challenge without a production team—until now. This article explores how Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) empowers educators to craft engaging, broadcast-quality learning experiences for both synchronous
While much of academia is focused on how to prevent students from using generative AI (GenAI) in their work, what if this tool can be used to help students with their writing in ways that prepare them for writing after college? Instructors can teach this
Simple and inexpensive software has made it easy for students and teachers to create video and audio for learning content and projects. But this still leaves many students and teachers struggling with the stylistic elements that make multimedia interesting and engaging. In particular, it is
Gamification has been shown to improve student learning (Brull, 2016), and one of the best apps for facilitating gamification in the classroom is Mural, an online collaborative whiteboard with hundreds of engaging, colorful activity templates. It is one of my favorite teaching and learning tools
Faculty lament that students often use Google searches rather than academic sources for research. But now there are AI tools that both restrict their searches to academic publications and manage the results to greatly speed up the writing process. Perhaps the most powerful of these
This essay covers student learning, misconceptions, search engines, and AI, but first a story to set the context. Most every academic discipline has an organization dedicated to teaching, and I’m active in mine, the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). STP hosts a Facebook
AI systems provide a great way to produce study aids for your students. They can generate questions on a topic and even interact with students to tutor them through a topic. But general AI systems like ChatGPT draw from a huge range of information, well
While many academics are still focused on keeping students away from artificial intelligence, others are preparing students to use AI in their current and future work. This means thinking about how IA is and will be used by our students, and crafting assignments that teach
