Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow can faculty make their learning objectives clearer and more specific? Does AI resilience require changing the objectives themselves or changing how students demonstrate their learning? Join Rob and Jared as they work with Dr. Trent Rogers (Dean of the School of Biblical and Theological Studies at Cedarville University) to revise objectives in a biblical exposition capstone course. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: AI Resilience & Objectives – Lecture
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhy is it so important to provide students with a clear target? How can better objectives lead to better outcomes? Join Rob and Jared as they discuss how to create AI-Resilient objectives. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Tranform Your Teaching: AI Resilience & Backward Design Principles
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDoes Backward Design look different now that AI has changed the world of education? How does “starting with the end in mind” produce courses that serve students well? Join Rob and Jared as they discuss how a backward-design approach enables teachers to create AI-resilient courses. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: AI Literacy – Lessons Learned
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIs there a single definition for AI Literacy? How are the changes in AI Literacy affecting workforce literacy? What can be done to rebuild the erosion of trust caused by the boom of Generative AI? Join Rob and Jared as they reflect and consider the major takeaways from our series titled “AI Literacy.” View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: AI Literacy and the Workforce with Mark Tanner
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow is AI changing the way that people work? What kind of skills are employers looking for in their future employees? Join Rob and Jared as they chat with Mark Tanner (Environmental Manager of Healthcare, Retail, and Grocery Logistics at Amazon) about how AI is changing the work landscape at Amazon. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: AI Literacy – Kickoff
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat is AI Literacy? How important is it for students to be “AI literate”? How can teachers help students develop the necessary skills to enter a workforce where the need for AI Literacy is growing ? Join Rob and Jared as they start our new series on AI Literacy. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Needle Movers – Dr. Michele Dodds
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow has AI changed nursing practices and patient care? What can educators do to leverage AI to train nursing students for their future careers? In this episode, Rob and Jared chat with Dr. Michele Dodds about how she is “moving the needle” through using AI to train future healthcare professionals. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Canvas Update: Smart Search
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInstructure has started incorporating AI directly into Canvas with a few features available now and more on the way. Currently, Canvas has added discussion summaries as well as a smart search option in courses. Smart Search allows instructors and students to quickly search course content. Smart Search operates based on its understood context – it isn’t restricted to keyword-based searches like we’re used to with Google or other search engines. This does mean that things you may be used to (like including a search term in quotation marks for an exact search) do not work in Smart Search, but Canvas is working on an updated search…
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Transform Your Teaching: Generative AI Applied with Dr. Thomas White
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 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 in…
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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…