In my previous blog post on Wikis, I mentioned some aspects of collaborative learning that lead me to think about cohorts and whether or not we are fully leveraging their...
Using the Cohort to Drive First-Year Student Engagement
Why Teaching AI Prompting is a first step for First-Year Students
Introduction
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping education and the workplace,...
Getting Students Outside of the Box
Persistence rates in higher education haven’t improved over the last two decades and though student retention is obviously a key success factor, alone it isn’t a...
For Collaborative Learning: The Wiki
The collaborative skillset has rightfully taken its place in the upper echelon of transferable skills deemed essential to college graduates of all learning modalities. Indeed, overwhelmingly...
Does Facebook Have a Place in the Online Classroom?
This month we take a look at the overwhelming favorite SNS (Social Networking System) among college students: Facebook (Jumaat et al, 2019). With over 2 billion monthly active users (Aslam,...
I Feel the Need for Speed–How AI can help with creating effective scenarios and case studies for class discussions
I was in a department chat group the other day and we were discussing our fears of and the possible benefits of AI like ChatGPT to help us in the classroom. I shared an...
Thinking Critically About Learning Styles
I teach a class on critical thinking and try to incorporate a number of different ideas to open this topic up to folks who have never thought about “thinking about your thinking.”
In...
Questioning: Building Bridges and Making Connections
How many questions have you asked in your class this week? If you are teaching a lecture type class you may have a reserved period at the end of class and there may be questions, or the...