March 3, 2025The Impact of Service Learningby Ellie MacMillan, Kassidy Puckett, and Carolina MartinezMaking College Worth It – Season 2, Episode 6 In this episode, guest hosts Ellie MacMillan, Kassidy Puckett, and Carolina Martinez consider the impact service learning has on career development, social cohesion, and community involvement. Joining them are Elon University’s…
February 28, 2025Is Leadership a High-Impact Practice?by Kate CampbellThe Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has defined high impact practices (HIPs) as experiences that promote student success which is determined by academic achievement, persistence, satisfaction, attainment of educational objectives, and acquisition of desired learning outcomes (Kuh 2017)….
February 21, 2025When Education Becomes Performative, Learning Suffers by Amanda SturgillGenerative AI is great at writing to a script. I have a waking nightmare, of sorts, involving AI and email: someone writes to me by prompting an AI system with a topic. I feel I need to reply, but I’m…
February 17, 2025Deepening Engagement in a First-Year Seminarby Matt WittsteinLimed: Teaching with a Twist – Season 3, Episode 6 The first-year seminar is a challenging, yet impactful, space to introduce habits of mind that lead to long-term student success. In this episode, Adam Keul, Associate Professor of Tourism and…
February 11, 2025Planning for Effective Feedback and Promoting Feedback Literacy by Aaron TrockiAs I continue to explore literature on models of assessment and feedback, the importance of feedback and feedback literacy has emerged as an ongoing theme. At the time of this writing, my colleagues and I are preparing for the spring…
January 31, 2025Examining AI Use in the Workplace by Amanda SturgillAs 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….
January 24, 2025Using Generative AI in Leadership Developmentby Amanda SturgillLeadership 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…
January 20, 2025Asynchronous, HyFlex, and Live, Oh My!by Matt WittsteinLimed: 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…
January 17, 2025Exploring Student Choice in Artificial Intelligence-Supported Assessments for Learning (Part 2) by Aaron TrockiIn part one of this two-part blog post, I shared the revision of an artificial intelligence-supported assessment (AI-SA) I had used in spring 2024. The revised version gave students a choice in what technology (ChatGPT or internet search) they could…
January 10, 2025Using Generative AI in First-Year Seminars by Amanda Sturgill 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.”…