Making College “Worth It” – Season 3, Episode 3 In this episode, we explore the technical, ethical, and social complexities of using AI in engineering. We speak with Dr. Blake Hament, Assistant Professor of Engineering at Elon University, who shares an example of developing a voice-enabled…

As the new school year begins and our weeks are filled with slide edits, planning meetings, and the smell of new notebooks, one theme is dominating the preparation: Artificial Intelligence. I am not an AI expert. I have no tips…

I had to chuckle over this quote in a May New York Times article: “Though they are useful in some situations—like writing term papers, summarizing office documents and generating computer code—their mistakes can cause problems.” I think many of my fellow academics would see…

Making College “Worth It” – Season 3, Episode 1 In this episode we explore how generative AI is influencing current writing pedagogies in higher education. We speak with Dr. Mandy Olejnik, Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Miami…

I am a professor of journalism, and it’s a challenging time to make the case for why journalism still matters. I give my students a couple of reasons: first is the ability to access and make sense of a variety…

In many ways, AI assistance can be helpful with writing, but one that has never made sense to me is asking AI to help formulate an opinion. I occasionally see this from students when I ask them what they think…

In comments sections and replies in both educator spaces and mass media articles, it’s common to see exhortations to simply return to an earlier time where students demonstrated knowledge in class. I myself recall needing to remember to stop by…

I’ve participated in several professional education opportunities this summer related to AI as a tool for higher education, and one of my biggest takeaways is that there is little agreement among faculty.   Even in a tiny academic unit of fewer…

Each summer, the Center for Engaged Learning facilitates week-long meetings for three distinct international, multi-institutional, and multidisciplinary research seminars that foster collaborative scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) on focused engaged learning topics. During this summer’s research seminar meetings, generative…

Making College “Worth It” – Season 2, Episode 10 In this episode, Nolan and Jessie talk with Travis Maynard, Tim Peeples, and Paula Rosinski about their recent research on alumni perceptions of generative AI. Drs. Maynard, Peeples, and Rosinski share…