Supporting Student Well-being in Virtual Learning
My first and only fully online class taken as an undergraduate student was a complete disaster. Aside from a bare-bones syllabus, the professor never showed up. Most of our grade…
Bringing Authentic Humor into the Classroom
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on July 22, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Humor has a place in education. College teachers can use it to create a…
Revitalizing University Missions with Community-Engaged HyField Teaching
In the past year’s news cycle, we have seen university presidents arraigned before Congress and levels of student activism unseen in decades. Whether spun positively or negatively in media coverage,…
Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 5, 2017 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Ubiquitous learning—the idea that everywhere you go, you’re learning all the time—lets us…
Empowering Student Learning: Navigating Artificial Intelligence in the College Classroom
Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Out of the panic, an emerging field of practical, practitioner-based…
The Five Whys: Helping Students Engage in Deeper Learning
During his time at the Toyota Motor Company, Taiichi Ohno developed a tool for root cause analysis, the technique we know as the five whys. According to Ohno (1988), “By…
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…