HomeBlogWriting Navigating Generative AI in Higher Educationby Jessie Moore and Nolan Schultheis October 6, 2025 Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionPodcasts – Home 60-Second SoTL Limed: Teaching with a Twist Making College “Worth It” Special Series First-Year Seminars Land Acknowledgement 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 University of Ohio. Our conversation focuses on the impact GenAI has had on the assignment creation process. View the transcript for this episode. Meet our Guest Dr. Mandy Olejnik is Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Miami University’s Howe Center for Writing Excellence (HCWE), where she supports disciplinary faculty and graduate instructors in their teaching of writing. She leads all AI faculty development programming at the Center, including the AI-Informed Writing Pedagogy Certificate. She co-edited the 2022 collection Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines and is co-editor of the contracted and forthcoming edited collection Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Toward Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication. Her research has also appeared in The WAC Journal, Across the Disciplines, Composition Forum, Xchanges, and Transformative Works and Cultures. In her free time, she enjoys classic ballroom dancing, gardening, and learning about personal finance. Episode Credits This episode is co-hosted by Jessie L. Moore, Director of Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning, and Nolan Schultheis, a third-year student at Elon University, studying Psychology with an interest in law. Nolan Schultheis also edited the episode. Making College “Worth It” is produced by Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning. Episode art was created by Nolan Schultheis and Jennie Goforth. Funky Percussions is by Denys Kyshchuk (@audiocoffeemusic) – https://www.audiocoffee.net/. Soft Beat is by ComaStudio. Explore Resources Related to The Episode Olejnik, Mandy. (2023, December 8). “AI Won’t Replace Writing Instruction (Opinion).” Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/12/08/ai-wont-replace-writing-instruction-opinion Generative AI and Professional Ethics 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… Tell the Robot How You Feel About Learning 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… Blue Books and In-Class Writing Are Not a Panacea 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… When it Comes to AI in Education, Timing May Matter 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… GenAI and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 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… 1 2 … 7 8 >
