July 8, 2025AI and Learning About Cultures by Amanda Sturgill Several of the high-impact practices in higher education require learners to practice stepping out of their cultural comfort zone. For instance, a co-op or internship can require adapting to the culture of a workplace. Undergraduate research means learning to…
June 24, 2025Should AI be Involved in Assessing Student Work? by Amanda SturgillI was at a campus workshop this week, and we discussed this recent article about a student requesting a tuition refund after discovering a piece of course content was generated by ChatGPT (Hill 2025). I thought the use of the…
May 6, 2025How Might Generative AI Impact DEI in University Classes by Amanda SturgillI sometimes describe the content that generative AI creates as pumpkin spice latte content, to get a giggle from my students. I think the analogy holds up: It’s tasty. It’s filling. And it is absolutely not anything that will surprise…
April 21, 2025AI as Friend or Foe in Computer Scienceby Matt WittsteinPart 2, Faculty perspectives | Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Season 3, Episode 8 Last month, we talked with student guests about artificial intelligence use in their computer science education. This month, we continue the conversation with Robert Duvall (Duke…
April 7, 2025AI and Engaged Learning in Higher Educationby Jessie L. Moore and Nolan SchultheisMaking College “Worth It” – Season 2, Episode 7 In this episode, Amanda Sturgill shares insights from her ongoing exploration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and engaged learning in higher education. Dr. Sturgill is the 2024-2026 Center for Engaged Learning…
March 25, 2025Unlocking the Link Between Generative AI Confidence and Critical Thinking Skillsby Amanda SturgillEducators aren’t the only ones thinking about the relationship between generative AI and critical thinking. A recent study by Lee et al. (2025) from Carnegie Mellon University and others from Microsoft Research surveyed 319 knowledge workers about their experiences using…
March 17, 2025AI as Friend or Foe in Computer Scienceby Matt Wittstein Part 1, Student Perspectives | Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Season 3, Episode 7 The use of artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT has become the topic of serious discussion in higher education. Ryan Mattfeld, associate professor of computer science at…
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 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….
