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Beyond Text: AI Tools for Making Images, Videos, Audio, and Study Aids

Meizhen Chen, Sarah Shewbert, Himani Trivedi, and Kaitlyn Vogel February 5, 2024

We associate artificial intelligence with text-generating systems like ChatGPT. But AI can also produce content in a variety of digital formats, including images, videos, and audio. These tools allow instructors and instructional designers to create custom content that enriches their online courses without high-level technical

Audio and Video Content Made Easy with Descript

John Orlando January 22, 2024

As widely used communications media, videos and podcasts should be at the heart of any online class. The problem is that it is nearly impossible to make mistake-free videos and podcasts—at least if you speak off the cuff, as people who make a lot of

AI Tools for Adding Interactions to Your Learning Material

John Orlando January 16, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has produced a plentitude of apps to help faculty develop lesson content. But it can also create student interactions for that content. This is important as reflection on content is critical for retention. Prompts for that reflection can be as simple as

Changing the AI Narrative: Embracing Defiant Optimism

Julie McCown December 4, 2023

Since January, I have led multiple faculty development sessions on generative AI for faculty at my university. Attitudes from faculty at these events have ranged from concerned to frustrated, overwhelmed to worried, as well as a sense of grim resignation (to be fair, there were

Someone entering a question into ChatGPT

How to Incorporate AI into Assignments

John Orlando October 2, 2023

The arrival of ChatGPT sent shockwaves across academia as articles with titles like “Yes, We Are in a (ChatGPT) Crisis” splashed across higher education media. Reports of students using it to write their papers led to the immediate goal of

Get a FEAL for AI

Regan A. R. Gurung September 5, 2023

Do you remember life before smartphones?

If 2007 was a watershed moment, influencing and shaping a new generation that would grow up with iPhones, 2023 may go down as the next big milestone for society and life as we know it (<a href="https://www.jeantwenge.com/generations-book-by-dr-jean-twenge/" target="_blank"

Fight the Fatigue: Why Integration of AI Beats the Alternative

Jill Giebutowski August 28, 2023

We’re in the tornado of AI, hands on our cheeks, breathless, as the stories of impending doom swirl around us. The Wicked Witch of the West pedals by, cackling about the end of days. While we may be powerless to decide whether AI gets

Teaching and Learning as Rumination, or What Cows Can Teach Us about Pedagogy

Avinash Thombre July 24, 2023

Over the past year, most campuses have had to confront the impact of ChatGPT on the classroom, particularly on student learning and submission of assignments. Teachers are scrambling to modify their syllabi to lay out policies to ensure no plagiarism occurs. There is not

The Dead Professor Revisited: New Capabilities through Artificial Intelligence

Gundars Kaupins July 24, 2023

In 2000, a Teaching Professor article entitled “Professors: Living or Dead” highlighted how dead professors (literally dead) can still teach college courses. Through online teaching, dead professors can continue showing videos, electronically send grades to the registrar, answer student emails

The World of AI Resources for Education

John Orlando May 22, 2023

While education circles have focused on ChatGPT, many other AI systems have emerged that offer instructors and students tools to help create teaching material and projects. We will examine these overlooked systems here. But first, let’s take a look at why AI has suddenly

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