Explorations in Digital Learning
Field notes from exploring digital learning and innovative pedagogy at Boston College.
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Exploring GenAI for Enhancing Student Feedback
What if AI tools could help with one of teaching’s biggest pain points: providing timely, meaningful feedback to students?
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Integrating Ethical Practice and AI Technology in Nursing Education
What does preparing students to be ethical nurses equipped to enter the workforce with the skills they need to use new technologies to promote excellent patient care look like?
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Helping Chatbots Find Their Purpose
AI doesn’t know what its purpose is without our help. Teachers have crucial role to play in deciding whether AI has role to place in their classrooms.
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| Events
CDIL Teaching Roundtable: Tips for Teaching Online for the First Time
Is this the first time you’ve taught online or your first time teaching online at BC? Join us for a faculty-led roundtable discussion on Zoom on May 9, 2024, from noon – 1 pm, where several experienced online faculty members will share their tips for successful online teaching.
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Opening Up About AI: A Conversation with Students
When I finally talked to my students about AI, it was a relief that we could figure things out together – By Sylvia Sellers-García
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Learning with Course Chatbots: A Pilot
Designing custom chatbots is becoming easier. How can we start experimenting with them to support student learning?
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Guideposts for Learning with AI
How a business communications professor Rita Owens developed a visual strategy for communicating clear guidelines for AI – By Noël Ingram
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Responding to AI with Authentic Assignments in Finance
How a finance professor’s engagement with ChatGPT created more authentic assessments–and more trust
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Reflections after a Semester with ChatGPT
What is it like to teach at the university level in the age of AI, and what does it tell us about the future of higher education?
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Alien Brains & Metacognition: Using AI to Facilitate Human Learning
How can having students engage with a non-human brain help them understand their own thinking better?
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Solving World Peace with ChatGPT
What relevance might ChatGPT have in a course on Peace Studies? After recent conversations with colleagues and faculty about the ChatGPT and teaching, I decided to find out for myself.
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Using ChatGPT in the Higher Ed Classroom
The moment I realized AI had come for me was when I put midterm exam questions ChatGPT.
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WGBH Interview about ChatGPT and Education
John Fitzgibbon, Associate Director for Digital Learning Innovation at CDIL, was interviewed by WGBH to share his thoughts about the effect of ChatGPT and other AI tools on eduction.
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| Updates
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