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How Custom GPTs Can Support Research Teams in Advancing Their Work: Meet EDLI Explorer
Custom GPTs are advanced AI models tailored to meet users’ unique needs by providing targeted insights. To support researchers in their work, Caitlin Kirby and Stephen Thomas developed EDLI Explorer, a custom GPT designed specifically for the EDLI team. EDLI Explorer serves as a knowledge hub, offering insights, summaries, and connections between projects related to…
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EDLI’s evaluation of generative AI tutoring featured in the State News
The Office of Undergraduate Education is piloting the use of Khanmigo, a generative AI tutor, with some students on campus. EDLI is involved in evaluating its impacts. You can read about the project and EDLI’s role in this article from the State News.
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EDLI is offering mid-semester course feedback with Mid-FACT
Every instructor wants to create a meaningful and engaging learning experience, but how do we know if students genuinely connect with the material? Traditional student evaluations often come at the end of the semester, leaving educators with valuable insights—but no opportunity to act on them for the current students. This is where MidFACT—Midsemester Feedback for…
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Navigating the IRB Process for Generative AI Research
Figure: The IRB Process for Generative AI Research. This figure may be shared and used freely with proper attribution to the creator. When I embarked on my research project analyzing student surveys using ChatGPT, I knew I needed to go through the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process. My goal was to explore whether ChatGPT—or any…
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Automating Course File Analysis: A Data-Driven Approach to Accessibility Reporting
The Problem: Managing Accessibility at Scale With the increasing reliance on digital course materials, higher education institutions face growing challenges in ensuring accessibility compliance. A recent ruling on Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires all publicly funded organizations to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards for digital content—including instructor materials, internal documents,…
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Listening to Students When It Matters: How MidFACT can Transform Teaching at MSU
MidFACT—Midsemester Feedback for Actionable Course Transformation Every instructor wants to create a meaningful and engaging learning experience, but how do we know if students genuinely connect with the material? Traditional student evaluations often come at the end of the semester, leaving faculty with valuable insights—but no opportunity to act on them for the current students.…
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Celebrating our Unfunded Grants
By Caitlin Kirby, Associate Director of Research & Interim EDLI co-Director I was trained as a graduate student to embrace failure as an expected part of my professional career. That training embodied itself in the outfit I wore for my dissertation defense in 2019. I made a skirt out of a selection of rejection letters…
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ChatGPT for natural sciences course design: Insights from a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis
EDLI team members recently published an article on instructor uses of ChatGP in course planning and content generation among educators. This study examines the initial perspectives of a cohort of five instructors (N = 5) who participated in a 5-day workshop introducing ChatGPT 4.0 for course development. The findings highlighted ChatGPT’s strengths in enhancing course design efficiency,…