Selected Work
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EDLI at 2025 Spring TALKS: Sharing Innovations in Teaching and Learning
The EDLI team participated in 2025 Spring TALKS, presenting a range of projects that reflect our commitment to inclusive, evidence-based, and technology-enhanced teaching. Across two days of presentations, EDLI team members shared tools, research findings, and frameworks that support teaching, ranging from midsemester feedback systems to generative AI for neurodivergent support, and a campus-wide view…
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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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EDLI Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Improve Blended Courses
EDLI has received a National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education grant of $400k to support research aiming to improve student learning outcomes and equity in blended online and in-person courses. Co-PIs Dr. Caitlin Kirby, EDLI’s Associate Director of Research, and Dr. Casey Henley, Director of Online Programs for the Neuroscience Program and Assistant Professor,…
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Promoting Instructor and Student Satisfaction in Hyflex and Blended Courses
Many current educators have developed a strong reaction to the term “hyflex”—most often one of horror, an involuntary recoil as they relive forced emergency instruction and the chaotic semesters that followed the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, some instructors and institutions have embraced hyflex and other blended modalities for the flexibility they afford students,…
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EDLI Teaching Fellows
Overview: A 2-4 semester-long program where instructors from one of the three EDLI colleges can be paid to engage in a teaching & learning project with the EDLI team. EDLI works with MSU faculty members to implement instructional interventions, measure the effects of those interventions, publish the findings about the interventions, and advocate for broader…
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Laptop Loan Program
Overview: As education becomes more reliant on technology it becomes important that all students are able to participate in the education experiences. This project incorporated three elements 1) the rewriting of the laptop requirement 2) the purchase of laptops for a loan program administered by the library and 3) an easy way for students to…
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Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant: Peer Teaching Evaluations
Overview: We developed a proposed project to explore the impact of a peer-led teaching evaluation program on retention and sense of community among underrepresented faculty. Outcomes: Grant application to MSU’s Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant program Stephen and Caitlin worked with Michael Lockett of the AAN/HUB to submit an internal grant proposal to the Creating Inclusive…
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Template & Considerations for Student Notification – Temporary Course Modality Change
Below are some suggestions and sample text you may wish to use when communicating with your students about a temporary modality change of your course due to illness, etc. Before you make the decision to change your course to online please consider your goals and objectives for the particular session(s) you are changing, and what…