The NPR Model of Teaching through Storytelling
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 1, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Nearly all dedicated NPR listeners have had the experience of sitting in their…
Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs for Community College Classrooms: Strategies to Ensure Reliable and Trustworthy AI-Powered Learning Tools
According to Jandrić (2019) in "The Post-digital Challenge of Critical Media Literacy," Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can exhibit unpredictable and biased behaviors that their creators and researchers are unable to…
Should We Teach Students Formulas for Writing?
As writing instructors, we often see students with rigid ideas about what writing is "supposed" to look like: Topic sentence here. Quote Sandwich there. Five-paragraph format to tie it all together in a…
Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI
Author Rie Kudan received a prestigious Japanese literary award for her book, The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, and then disclosed that 5% of her book was written word-for-word by ChatGPT…
Advancing Online Graduate Education: Integrating Quality Matters Feedback to Enhance Course Templates
In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality.…
One Shift to Spectacular, Engaged Asynchronous Discussions: A Structured Conversation Systems Approach
I admit, my experiences as a student in asynchronous online discussions (AODs) were mixed. In some classes, the instructor never participated, and students either copied and pasted whole passages or…
Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. All rights reserved. For more articles like this, check out The Teaching Professor subscription! Do you…
Embracing AI in Education
Even before the explosion of generative AI, technology had already found its way into traditional face-to-face and distance learning classrooms. No longer are we bound only to text, but we…
Preparing to Lead with the Help of the Disney Leadership Institute
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” - Walt Disney Many undergraduate and graduate programs at colleges and universities worldwide provide opportunities for…
Lessons from the FBI: Students and Cheating
Given suspicions that a student has cheated in a course, one of the most common recommendations is that an instructor meets with the student to discuss those suspicions. No one…