Two blog posts ago, I shared my early spring semester plans for giving students effective feedback and promoting their feedback literacy in an early college calculus course. Going into that semester, I realized that to promote student feedback literacy, it…

I 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…

In the last blog post, I discussed my initial plans for feedback this semester. A few insights have helped me to plan effective feedback strategies. The feedback loop (Clark and Talbert 2023) structures students’ engagement with feedback they receive to…

Generative 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…

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….

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…

In 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…

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.”…

In this series of blog posts, I began by exploring models of assessment and feedback and offering some perspectives on benefits and drawbacks from various models. The practice perspective as described by Boud et al. (2018) proved valuable in my…

In higher education, Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers real benefits like time savings and a tireless thought partner. But it can also mean significant anxiety for students and their instructors alike.   What Makes People More Likely to Accept AI?  Research indicates that…