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
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
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
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.
Many of us worry that generative AI will do students’ thinking for them. But what if the process of generating AI content—in this case, an image—actually forces a deeper level of critical analysis? To facilitate critical thinking skills about AI, we designed an assignment that
Feedback is one of the most important influences on learning, and providing it is one of an instructor’s most important duties. But it’s no secret that many, if not most, faculty consider providing students with feedback to be drudgery. AI provides a way to offload
While AI is being used to make self-tests, study aids, and a wide range of other learning materials, tutoring systems have arguably the most potential to improve student understanding and performance. Programmed to mimic human tutors, these systems engage in a Socratic dialogue with the
Every time a student submits work that doesn’t reflect what you know about them, you face the same impossible task: proving something that was designed to be unprovable. AI detection tools offer a number, not an answer. Formal academic integrity processes demand evidence that, in
