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    Transform Your Teaching: Recapping Generative AI Applied

    Reading Time: < 1 minute In 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…

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    Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Dr. Jodie Penrod

    Reading Time: 2 minutes In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles chat with Dr. Jodie Penrod who has a PhD in Educational/Instructional Technology from Ohio University and is the Chief Information Officer at Marshall University. Check out this episode to hear how Marshall University has approached Generative AI and how other educators can use GAI to enhance teaching and learning.  Podcast links Show notes Marshall University has decided to embrace using Generative AI and harness it to fit their goals. Their advice for faculty in using GAI falls into three categories: open use, moderate use, and prohibited. They created these categories to provide a framework to get started.…

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    Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Dr. Thomas White 

    Reading Time: 2 minutes In this episode, Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles talk with Dr. Thomas White, president of Cedarville University. Check out this episode to hear about possible applications of Generative AI at Cedarville and in higher education at large.  Podcast links Show notes Dr. White sees how influential Generative AI will be on higher education and has explored it by using ChatGPT4 and plugins. While using the tools, he has found uses outside of education – recently using Generative AI to help book his family’s vacation. However, Dr. White’s main emphasis for Cedarville faculty is that they need flexibility and freedom to handle how GAI is used…

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    Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Kim Woodruff 

    Reading Time: 2 minutes In 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…

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    Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Dr. Vladimir Bratic 

    Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, Jared Pyles and Dr. Rob McDole talk with Dr. Vladimir Bratic who has a PhD in Mass Communication from Ohio University and is an assistant professor of Media and Communications at Hollins University. Check out this episode to hear how ChatGPT has gone from being a flashy innovation to an everyday tool.  Podcast links Show notes Dr. Bratic has noticed that over the past year, ChatGPT has gone from a flashy innovation to a normalized, embedded tool that influences the average person’s daily life. It is “coming to us and begging us to use it.” However, he notices that there are still obstacles…

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    Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Tiffin University Faculty – Part II

    Reading Time: 2 minutes In 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…

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    Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Tiffin University Faculty – Part I

    Reading Time: < 1 minute In 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…

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    Transform Your Teaching: Live 50th Episode

    Reading Time: < 1 minute In 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 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…