Reading Time: 2 minutes In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles chat with Dr. Jules White who has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and serves as Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Generative AI in Education and Enterprise Solutions at Vanderbilt University. Check out the episode to hear their discussion about how instructors can help students become comfortable with generative AI and use it effectively. Podcast links Show notes Dr. Jules White is excited about generative AI and sees it as a “new medium”—fundamentally transformative to how people live their daily lives. More specifically, Dr. White has seen AI’s impact in education. In his current position, he has…
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Jason Frieling: Wanderings
Reading Time: 3 minutes Twenty-four years. That number represented close to half of my life at the time of my departure from teaching in the Michigan public school system. Twenty of those years were spent as an English teacher at the middle and high school levels, with the last four serving as an instructional technology coach and the district’s virtual academy coordinator. For the past two plus years, I have had the distinct pleasure of first working for Cedarville’s Continuing Education as well as Assessment and Accreditation departments and now an instructional designer for the Center for Teaching and Learning. While it may seem that I had planned my…
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Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied – Whisper
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles explore a generative AI tool called “Whisper” through asking it to play the role of “guest” on the podcast. Check out the episode to hear the conversation and strategies Whisper provides for teaching and learning. Podcast links Show notes Jared and Rob explore the capabilities of a generative AI tool created by OpenAI called “Whisper.” According to OpenAI, it is “an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.” To showcase its capabilities, Rob and Jared create a prompt for Whisper to act as a…
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Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied – Introduction
Reading Time: 1 minute In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles start a new series on generative AI and its practical usage in higher education. Check out the episode to hear a general overview of generative AI models and possible ways that instructors can begin using these models in their teaching. Podcast links Show notes Generative AI Language models are designed to process large amounts of information and are trained to understand and generate text like a human through a vast amount of data, including books, websites, and articles. In many ways, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become synonymous with generative AI, however, a wide variety of generative AI models…
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Beginning of the Semester Reminders and Tips
Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to the start of a new semester! Today we’re going be chatting about some tips and reminders to make this first week (and the rest of the semester) easier. We know there’s a big gap between semester starts, so it’s easy for some of these things to slip your memory. Combining Canvas sections You may be teaching multiple sections of the same course but want to combine all your students into one section so you have a single place to work on the course. Canvas makes it simple to combine those multiple sections into one. A brief note: you’ll need to combine them before students…