Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles kick off a new series on Competency-Based Education. Check out the episode to hear the characteristics of CBE and how it compares with traditional educational practice. Podcast links Show notes In traditional educational models, time is the constant and education is the variable. With Competency-Based Education (CBE) models, time is the variable and education is the constant. In the current educational landscape, CBE is commonly seen in apprenticeships and in trades. Typically, it involves an instructor coming alongside a student to help them achieve mastery of content. Jared is currently apprehensive about CBE because it turns time…
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Transform Your Teaching: A Conversation with (Ret.) Lt. General Loren Reno
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles chat with (Ret.) Lt. General Loren Reno, Professor of Management and Senior Advisor, Office of the President at Cedarville University. Check out the episode to hear how he uses servant teaching to encourage and inspire students. Podcast links General Reno’s goal as an educator is to serve. He seeks to inspire his students instead of attempting to control their involvement in the learning process since educators can intrinsically motivate students through inspiration. With this foundation, General Reno provides several traits of a servant teacher: All these principles are based on approaching teaching with humility. General Reno shares that there…
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Transform Your Teaching: Behind the Scenes with Ryan Liming
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles chat with Ryan Liming, a member of the Transform Your Teaching team, to discuss some of the work that goes into producing the podcast. Transform Your Teaching is also using a new tool to hold asynchronous video discussions with listeners. Join us on Flip with all your questions and reflections on the topics we cover. Podcast links Resources We want to hear from our listeners, so we’ve launched a discussion on Flip – a video discussion platform. Join us with all your questions and reflections. Join Transform Your Teaching’s Flip discussion group: https://flip.com/e5ea081d (if it asks for…
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Transform Your Teaching: Recapping Generative AI Applied
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles conclude the series on Generative AI and reflect on what they learned. Check out the episode to hear their top three takeaways. They also announce the launch of a new tool we are using to hold asynchronous video discussions with listeners. Join on Flip with all your questions and reflections on the topics we cover. Podcast links Show notes Jared’s takeaways: Rob’s takeaways: Resources We want to hear from our listeners, so we’ve launched a discussion on Flip – a video discussion platform. Join us with all your questions and reflections. Join Transform Your Teaching’s Flip discussion…
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Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Kim Woodruff
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this episode, Jared Pyles and Dr. Rob McDole talk with Kim Woodruff who is the Director of Instructional Design at Manhattan College. Check out this episode to hear about Manhattan College’s current experience with Generative AI and possible applications that instructors can try. Podcast links Show notes Manhattan College’s approach to integrating Generative AI (GAI) begins with conversations with their faculty to reach them where they are at. They do not want to push for innovation too quickly, so they provide tips and tricks based on sound pedagogical ideas. Kim often encourages instructors to be experimental and use GAI to perform authentic tasks. Manhattan faculty have been…
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Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Tiffin University Faculty – Part II
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles continue their chat about the use of Generative AI in Higher Education with faculty from Tiffin University. Check out the episode to hear how instructors can employ Generative AI in their day-to-day teaching practices. Podcast links Show notes The rapid changes of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT make keeping up with them challenging. To combat this challenge, instructors learn how to use these tools better through training in prompt engineering. At Tiffin, they have recently hired someone to assist faculty in incorporating AI tools into teaching. The Tiffin faculty also shared about an upcoming webinar on using…
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Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Tiffin University Faculty – Part I
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles chat with two faculty members from Tiffin University about the use of generative AI. Check out the episode to hear how Tiffin equips students and faculty to use AI well. Podcast links Show notes Tiffin University’s approach to generative AI is marked with innovation. They start with being transparent about how generative AI should be used, giving students an AI “toolkit” so they are aware of AI’s limitations and are able to use it ethically. Dr. Meadows, Dr. Clark, and Tiffin introduced design statements (statements that students include in assignments describing how they used AI to aid in…
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Transform Your Teaching: Live 50th Episode
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this episode, we celebrate the 50th episode of Transform Your Teaching with a live Q&A. Check out the episode to hear Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles answer teaching and learning-related questions from our live audience. Contact us at ctlpodcast@cedarville.edu with any questions. Podcast links Want to never miss a post? Subscribe here!
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Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Dr. Jules White
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 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 been…
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Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied – Whisper
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn 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 guest…