I spent part of this summer redesigning ENGL 105 (Composition and Rhetoric), a first-year writing course I’ve taught in various forms over twenty years. One of my most useful collaborators was CourseTuner, a custom GPT developed by CSUCI’s Teaching & Learning Innovations (TLi) team. I provided CourseTuner with learning outcomes, assignments, and pieces of my […]
As an educator, you are likely familiar with this feeling: a new semester is about to begin, and you are handed a blank Canvas shell and a syllabus that needs to be filled out for your course(s). At first, you feel genuine excitement as you envision the topics you’ll explore and the engaging discussions you’ll […]
As of this moment in time, if you were to mention the term artificial intelligence or AI to someone, you’d likely land on the topic of ChatGPT, as it’s been dominating headlines lately. And with good reason, ChatGPT is capable of some really impressive stuff, and it warrants discussions about its ethical uses, what it […]
