When AI Gets It Wrong: A Pedagogical Approach
As a linguistics professor who is currently teaching in the middle of the generative AI boom, I have been thinking about how we can use AI not just as a…
Teaching for Transformation: Lessons from the Monarch Butterfly
Teaching is more than delivering content—it’s guiding students through a process of growth, discovery, and transformation. As college educators, we strive to create experiences that challenge students, nurture their potential, and prepare them…
From Silos to Synergy: Faculty Collaboration and the Power of the Good Behavior Game to Transform Student Engagement
Teaching is often described as a solitary profession, where faculty work independently within their own classrooms, departments, or programs. This siloed approach can make it easy to assume that challenges—such…
Making Online Instruction More Interactive: Tips for Teaching Quantitative Methods and Beyond
Engaging learners in online instructional sessions can be challenging—especially when teaching quantitative methods, where abstract concepts and coding exercises can quickly feel overwhelming. In this article, we begin by sharing practical strategies…
Cloning Myself with AI: Four Ways to Multiply Faculty Presence for Graduate and Adult Learners
Have you ever wished you could clone yourself? I have. For many faculty in graduate and adult education that longing is more than a passing thought. Balancing the multifaceted needs of students who…
The First Minutes: Designing Care-Based, Culturally Relevant Class Openings
The opening moments of a class session are often treated as routine, a time for announcements, slides, or quickly diving into content. Yet these first minutes are far more consequential…
Integrating Ethics and Sustainability into Modern Management Teaching
Business management education has undergone a complete transformation during the previous few years. Organizations need to show environmental responsibility and workplace fairness and open governance systems and ethical business practices to survive…
Focus Interrupted: How to Keep Students Engaged When Attention is Scarce
Most of today’s students have never known a world without technology, which significantly impacts their attention spans (“Digital Dementia: How Screens and Digital Devices Impact Memory” 2023). Microsoft found that attention spans in general have…
When Harvey Met Elle: How AI Tutors Transformed Learning in My Law Class
Large undergraduate classes create particular teaching challenges. A daunting challenge is providing personalized, meaningful learning support at a scale that meets the needs of hundreds of students. In subjects like law that…
Spaced Learning: Student Learning That Lasts
Before I began teaching college full time three years ago, I had worked for 15 years as a teacher in both public and private schools, a school leader for 15…