Building a Course from Scratch: When Time is Not on Your Side
I recently found myself in a the all-too-familiar situation where I was handed a course at the last minute. The course consisted of a catalog description and course outcomes with no…
Smarter Support: How to Use AI in Online Courses and Teach Your Students to Use It Too
Let’s be real. AI tools like ChatGPT showed up in higher ed like that one student who joins the Zoom session with their mic off, camera off, and still somehow…
Community, Classroom, and Cake
When I was handed the class list at the start of term, I sensed it was an opportunity to try something. The list told me that for most of the…
AI in the Classroom: Panic, Possibility, and the Pedagogy in Between
“Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie In my role as a fellow at my university’s Center for Teaching and Learning, I’ve had…
Mentorship Gone Missing: A Blueprint for a Mentorship Program
Mentorship is a learning-centered, leadership-driven experience that nurtures the next generation of researchers and clinicians in academia (Rabeeah et al 2022). Faculty mentors in allied health science programs play a…
Promoting and Sustaining a Growth Mindset in Online Classrooms
Educators have sought to understand why some students persist in overcoming challenges, while others do not. We present an exploration of growth mindset initiatives as factors that promote persistence and…
Beyond Digital Literacy: Cultivating “Meta AI” Skills in Students and Faculty
Imagine a classroom where AI helps students learn more effectively and faculty have more time to focus on what they do best. That future is closer than you think, thanks…
Life vs. Education: The Empath Edition
After some 21 years teaching online in the University system, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no absolute one thing that has more emphasis for student success than…
The Collaborative AI Classroom: Teaching Students to Work With, Not Against, AI Tools
In today's rapidly evolving educational landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed from a distant technological concept to an everyday tool accessible to our students. In recent years, AI has proven…
Reaching (Not Just Teaching) Today’s Students: A Communication Cheatsheet
Communication is hard. Even in the best of circumstances, every interaction carries not just the message we intend to send but also our own assumptions, our students’ assumptions, and the…