Cloning Myself with AI: Four Ways to Multiply Faculty Presence for Graduate and Adult Learners

Have you ever wished you could clone yourself? I have. For many faculty in graduate and adult education that longing is more than a passing thought. Balancing the multifaceted needs of students who…

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Focus Interrupted: How to Keep Students Engaged When Attention is Scarce

Most of today’s students have never known a world without technology, which significantly impacts their attention spans (“Digital Dementia: How Screens and Digital Devices Impact Memory” 2023). Microsoft found that attention spans in general have…

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The Value of Structured Think-Aloud Methodologies in the Age of AI

There always has been a longstanding debate in education about what skill sets students should learn and how their learning should be assessed. The advent of AI, however, has created an immediate need to reexamine current educational models and methods. Like…

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Teaching Advice I Wished Someone Had Told Me  

As you read the content of this article, you may wonder why you are yet to implement the strategies outlined here. But the fact is many of us were not taught in doctoral school how to teach or build our teaching effectiveness. We were advised to focus on research to maximize our chances…

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Enacting a Restorative Writing Retreat: An Endeavor in Supporting Academic Scholarship for Faculty Members

Faculty members in higher education must produce peer-reviewed publications in order to retain their jobs and obtain tenure and promotion. Perhaps even more importantly, publishing scholarship is one of the ways faculty members can share their ideas,…

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