Tipsheets and Workshops
Tipsheets
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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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Evaluating Workshops: A Practical Guide for Practitioners
Recently, we employed a comprehensive evaluation framework to appraise a multi-day workshop on integrating generative AI into course design. In this article, we will walk you through the evaluation and data collection procedures and reflect on how such evaluation studies can aid practitioners in refining their workshops. We started by selecting the framework where, in this…
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Generative AI Use Codes
By Stephen Thomas, Evidence Driven Learning Innovation (EDLI) The following is a proposed system of “Generative AI Use Codes” (GAUC) for academic assignments to provide clearer communication between instructors and students. These can be used to communicate the allowed level of generative AI assistance and desired degree of citation in academic tasks. The codes are meant to…
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Generative AI Resources and Events for Michigan State University
With the rapid uptake of the use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, faculty, staff, and administration across the university have been working to develop workshops, presentations, and resources for educators that are specific to MSU. EDLI is compiling these opportunities on this post. If you have events or links to add to this…
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Asynchronous Workshop Series on Digital Pedagogy, Accessibility, and Inclusion
EDLI facilitates an online graduate fellowship, the Colleges Online Learning Academy, that allows graduate students from our three colleges opportunities for networking, mentorship, creation of deliverables for their professional development as educators, and opportunities for peer review and reflection on teaching practice. In the months of May and June, we put on five workshops for our…
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Developing a Better Way to Share Recorded Workshops
Our team of educators and researchers has been working on ways to translate recordings of synchronous, live workshops (in our case, held online) into engaging asynchronous workshops to share with registrants who couldn’t attend the live event. “I’ll watch the recording” and other lies we tell ourselves It happens often for the naturally curious: you…
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Returning to Instruction – February 2023
This post provides some resources for faculty resuming courses in February 2023. Per guidance from the Provost’s office, faculty are encouraged to be flexible and accommodating with themselves and their students. Some courses may resume as planned, and others may need to make pedagogical changes in order to accommodate faculty and student needs. These changes…
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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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Remote Teaching – Spring 2022
Remote Teaching Modified from the CAL Academic Technology Office. MSU has announced that classes for the spring semester will start remotely Jan. 10 and scheduled to last for at least the first three weeks of the semester. Remote teaching will allow the institution to continue to meet its educational mission in the face of this…
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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…