AI In Academic Publishing: Disruption or Evolution?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving one of the most significant transformations in academic publishing since the advent of peer review. There has been a steady increase in the use of AI in…
Everything is Awesome: Legos® to Teach Teamwork and Communication
A group of 38 nurses, seven Lego building block kits, and 45 minutes was all our nursing professional development team needed to improve staff communication and patient safety. Game-based learning…
A NEST for Online Learning: Supporting Students in Virtual Education
In online nursing education, a “nest” is more than a metaphor—it is a learning environment where students feel safe, supported, and guided as they prepare to enter professional practice. Drawing…
6 Effective Ways to Build Attention and Boost Student Participation
Any educator can attest to the mounting challenge of maintaining student attention in the classroom. Students’ exposure to digital media from a very young age has both diminished their capacity to pay attention and led them to crave…
The AI Teammate: Three Roles to Build Student AI Fluency
AI is now embedded in teaching and learning. As educators, how do we help students benefit from AI without slipping into dependency, surface-level work, or ethical misconduct? I’ve found a helpful way to clarify…
Measuring What Matters: A Faculty Development System That Improves Teaching Quality
If you’ve ever organized faculty development, you know the usual routine: run workshops, get sign-in sheets, and maybe send a feedback survey. While useful, these activities don’t always tell us the real story—are faculty actually applying what they…
Beyond Breakout Rooms: Deepening Learning with Collaborative Whiteboards
Distance learning is here to stay. Both students and educators were required to quickly pivot to distance platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic without adequate preparation or training (Basilotta-Gomez-Pablos et al. 2022). Many programs elected to…
How Building Rapport Helped My Students Take Risks
One of my quietest students once came up to me after class and said, “I’ve never felt comfortable speaking in English before this course.” That single sentence reminded me that…
From the Classroom to the Career Office: Why Career Readiness Belongs in Every Discipline
Wrapping up a recent course, one of my students approached and asked to talk. It turns out she wasn’t there to review an assignment or clarify a grade. Instead, she…
Teaching with AI: From Prohibition to Partnership for Critical Thinking
What if the AI tools we are trying to limit and caution against were actually essential (or beneficial) to enhancing the critical thinking skills we are afraid of losing? Since…