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Examining AI Use in the Workplace  

As a teacher in higher education, it’s easy to feel pressure to have my graduates job-market ready, and at my university, we have had some engaging discussions about how well we should prepare students to use AI on the job….

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Using Generative AI in Leadership Development

Leadership is highlighted in higher education because educators believe leadership training matters in the job market. Research backs this up. Moody, Stewart, and Bolt-Lee (2002) found that leadership is one of the top five qualities employers look for and something…

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Asynchronous, HyFlex, and Live, Oh My!

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Season 3, Episode 5 By necessity, ATI Physical Therapy uses elements of online, in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous learning in its residency programs. Jackie Davenport, Clinical Development Program Lead and Residency Director for ATI Physical…

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Using Generative AI in First-Year Seminars 

Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, are becoming common in education, and many students arrive at colleges and universities with some experience using them. Often, though, that experience is tinged with concern—worries about academic integrity or fear of doing something “wrong.”…

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Attending to Equity in Work-Integrated Learning

Making College “Worth It” – Season 2, Episode 5 In this episode, Anne-Marie Fannon and Soumya Garg from the Work-Learn Institute at the University of Waterloo share new research on the work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences of equity deserving groups. They…

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“What Works” When Building Educational Relationships? 

As we noted in our previous post in this two-part analysis (Puckett and Felten 2024), student-faculty and student-student relationships contribute significantly to learning, motivation, identity development, well-being, and graduation rates in higher education (Felten and Lambert 2020). The positive effects…