Explorations in Digital Learning
Field notes from exploring digital learning and innovative pedagogy at Boston College.
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Coaching Students Through Peer Feedback
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This summer, several faculty members participated in CDIL’s working group, “Unlocking the Potential of Peer Feedback.” We asked them to share their thoughts on the group and their experiences developing their projects. I had a conversation with Patty Raube-Keller, Program Director for the M.S. in Sports Administration, which has been condensed and slightly edited.
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Fostering Engagement Through Peer Feedback
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This summer, several faculty members participated in CDIL’s working group, “Unlocking the Potential of Peer Feedback.” We asked them to share their thoughts on the group and their experiences developing their projects. I had a conversation with Josh Seim, Associate Professor of Sociology, which has been condensed and slightly edited. Why did you want to…
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Moving from Avoidance to Open-Mindedness: Rethinking GenAI in the Biology Classroom
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We invited faculty members in the 2024-2025 Purposeful AI Working Group to reflect on their experiences building custom chatbots that align with their teaching values and enhance student learning. Heather Olins, Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology, shared her thoughts with us, which have been condensed and slightly edited. How has your view of…
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AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and Curriculum
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A year-long opportunity for sustained conversation and exploration around AI at BC
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Sailboat or Steamship? Envisioning CDIL’s Role in the Shifting Currents of Higher Education
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Amidst the winds of change in higher education, what do we envision ourselves to be? A sailboat or a steamship?”
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Feedback That Matters: The Power of Peer Learning
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A faculty working group utilized peer feedback to create learning experience that cannot be replaced by GenAI.
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Teaching Legal Research in the Age of AI
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For some legal scholars, AI can be a useful reflection tool.
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Chatbots for Connection: Exploring Health and Human Flourishing with GenAI
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GenAI proves itself a useful tool for facilitating communication around health and well-being.
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When The Ground Shifts: AI, Expertise, and Moral Disorientation
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It’s not just that AI tools are changing how we work. For some faculty, they’re quietly changing who we think we are.
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Bringing Students into the AI Conversation
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What would it feel like to bring students more directly into the conversation about AI in education?
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Exploring GenAI for Enhancing Student Feedback
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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
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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
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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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CDIL Teaching Roundtable: Tips for Teaching Online for the First Time
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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.
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Opening Up About AI: A Conversation with Students
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When I finally talked to my students about AI, it was a relief that we could figure things out together
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Learning with Course Chatbots: A Pilot
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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
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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
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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
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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?