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I recently talked with Ryan Wetzel, manager of creative learning initiatives for Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State. We talked about a lot of positive uses of generative AI for student learning, but I also asked him about the concerns he hears from faculty. Number one on the list: academic integrity. In this bonus clip, Ryan shares how he responds to these concerns.

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How can generative AI help students develop creative and critical thinking skills? Doing means treating AI as more than a super Google search.

Ryan Wetzel is manager of creative learning initiatives for Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State. He and his team have developed a number of structured experiences for students (and their instructors) to increase their generative AI knowhow and to use AI to help them pursue course learning goals. While the students work in teams to design board games, create hit singles, or build their personal brands, they learn about AI and about creative and collaborative design.

Episode Resources

·       Ryan Wetzel on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlwetzel/

·       My visit to the Dreamery, https://derekbruff.kit.com/posts/learning-with-and-about-technology 

·       Intentional Teaching Ep. 21: Design Thinking and AI with Garrett Westlake, https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/episodes/13619437-design-thinking-and-ai-with-garret-westlake 

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I recently talked with Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University, about the problems and potential of doctoral education. I had a special guest interviewer, Emily Donahoe from the University of Mississippi. In these bonus clips, Len discusses the role of the 2008 recession in changing doctoral education, and Len and Emily compare notes on the value of public scholarship by academics.

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Doctoral education in the United States works really well... when it works. Many doctoral students experience a significant mismatch between their career goals and the goals of their graduate programs, which is one reason completion rates for doctoral programs are so low.

Why is doctoral education this broken? And what can higher education do about it? Today on the podcast, we hear some answers to those questions from Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University and author of the book The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education with Robert Weisbuch.

I'm joined by special guest interviewer Emily Donahoe, associate director at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi. Emily heads up the center's programs and services for graduate students, and she spends a lot of time in the world of doctoral education.

Episode Resources

Leonard Cassuto’s website, https://www.lcassuto.com/

Len on the Future U podcast, https://www.futureupodcast.com/episodes/the-future-of-the-phd/

Len on the Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning podcast, https://blubrry.com/dead_ideas/131080109/why-is-there-no-training-on-how-to-teach-graduate-students-with-leonard-cassuto/ 

Emily Donahoe’s Unmaking the Grade blog, https://emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/

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I recently talked with Jane Southworth, professor and chair of geography at the University of Florida, about the university's AI Across the Curriculum program. Here's a bit more from Jane about assessment for the program, career outcomes for students, and the university's open invitation to other institutions to visit and see what they've done.

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Today on the podcast, I’m excited to share an interview with Jane Southworth, professor and chair of geography at the University of Florida and co-chair of the committee that designed UF's "AI Across the Curriculum" program. That program was designed in 2021, two full years before the launch of ChatGPT!

Jane shares about the role of artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, in her landscape change research, and how that work get her involved in AI curriculum initiatives at UF. Jane also provides a lot of details on the new UF program, including the university-wide undergraduate AI certificate, AI-focused undergraduate research opportunities, and what turned into a herculean effort to get AI literacy embedded across the UF curriculum. I also asked Jane how the launch of ChatGPT affected this big project as it was being launched.

Episode Resources

·       Jane Southworth’s faculty page, https://geog.ufl.edu/faculty/southworth/ 

·       AI at the University of Florida, https://ai.ufl.edu/

·       “Developing a model for AI Across the Curriculum: Transforming the higher education landscape via innovation in AI literacy,” Southworth et al., https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X23000061?via%3Dihub 

·       “Building an AI University: An Administrator’s Guide,” Joe Glover, https://www.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/11/Building-an-AI-university-An-administrators-guide.pdf 

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I recently talked with Jingjing Li, associate professor of commerce at the University of Virginia, about her use of generative AI to teach students a different kind of AI, that is, machine learning. In these bonus clips, Jingjing helps us understand the difference between these two kinds of AI, and she shares a bit more about how she's updating her spring courses based on what she's learned about teaching with generative AI.

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In my new job at the University of Virginia, I recently met Jingjing Li, Andersen Alumni associate professor of commerce. Jingjing teaches business intelligence at both the undergraduate and Master’s levels, and her research interests include artificial intelligence and data analytics. She has conducted some very thoughtful experiments in her courses in using generative artificial intelligence to teach about machine learning in business analysis.

In our interview, we talk about her scaffolded assignments, the metaphors her students use to describe working with generative AI, and the relationships between conceptual understanding and AI literacy.

Episode Resources

·       Jingjing Li’s faculty page, https://www.commerce.virginia.edu/faculty/jl9rf

·       ChatGPT in Technical Courses, a Teaching Hub collection curated by Jingjing Li, https://teaching.virginia.edu/collections/chatgpt-in-technical-courses 

·       UVA’s Faculty AI Guides program, https://cte.virginia.edu/programs/faculty-ai-guides/ 

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In 1986, Vanderbilt University established a new Center for Teaching, a unit that would help thousands of faculty and other instructors at Vanderbilt and across higher education develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching and learning. I’m Derek Bruff, and I worked at the CFT, as we called it, from 2005 to 2022, serving as its director for over a decade. 

When I left Vanderbilt, I wanted to find some way to honor the good work of the Center for Teaching. It played an important role in my professional career and in the careers of the faculty and staff who passed through its doors. I decided to produce this oral history of the CFT as a way to document and celebrate the CFT’s story. I reached out to a number of former CFT staff, including all of its directors, to interview them about their time at the CFT.

You’ll hear from Ken Bain, Darlene Panvini, Linda Nilson, Allison Pingree, Peter Felten, and others CFT alumni, and I hope these stories capture just a bit of the CFT magic.

Additional Resources:

Vanderbilt Center for Teaching's 35th Anniversary Panel (video)

StoryCorps: Derek Bruff and Stacey Johnson on the CFT's work navigating the COVID-19 pandemic (audio)

This audio documentary is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

Music: "Isola Bella" and "Contemplation" by Purple Planet.

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I recently talked with Josh Steele, associate vice dean of digital learning at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, about UT's new moves in online education. I asked Josh for his take on the use of online program managers and other external vendors for launching and sustaining online programs.

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Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.

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