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…
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…
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,…
Through tools like ChatGPT, AI has become a household buzzword. But its usage continues to lag among educators. There are various reasons for this: lack of awareness, resistance to change, and of…
In today’s classrooms, educators are constantly seeking ways to engage students while building critical academic and real-world skills. One powerful approach is digital storytelling, an alternative to the traditional essay that…
I will never forget the expression of bewilderment and abject fear on my undergraduate researcher’s face when I said “Can you create a mathematical model of worms messing up age layering?” I am sure he was thinking “She’s nuts. What rational geological mind can think…
It's Sunday night. You're prepping for three different courses tomorrow, you have 50 discussion posts waiting for feedback, and you just remembered you need to send that midterm reminder. The to-do list feels endless,…
Developing stronger bonds between K–12 and higher education systems is a longstanding recommendation for educational reform; yet these relationships are often underutilized (Darling-Hammond, 2010; Kirst & Venezia, 2004, Rippner, 2015). One practical and impactful strategy for…
When I transitioned from the bedside to academia, I expected to feel a bit disoriented. What I didn’t expect was how unprepared I’d feel in front of a classroom. I could manage a sick patient, but designing a…
When The Atlantic asks how far colleges should go to limit AI’s harms, Tyler Austin Harper answers: as far as it takes—even to campus-wide device bans, cutting Wi-Fi, and corralling the…