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 […]
A little over ten years ago, on September 4, 2014, when Teaching & Learning Innovations was just getting started, our neophyte team launched the Teaching & Learning Innovations blog. We didn’t know what it would become. What we knew was that we needed a space to talk about our work. A space to share the […]
This is the second post in the To Ask or Not Ask the Question in ChatGPT series. The first post focused on using ChatGPT to ask questions and gather information, while this post highlights best practices when asking ChatGPT to ask questions, starting the research process, and teaching strategies to introduce these ideas to students. […]
This is the first post in the series “To Ask or Not to Ask the Question in ChatGPT.” It will discuss concerns surrounding ChatGPT’s ability to answer questions. The next post will explore how ChatGPT can help our students with the research process and best practices for asking questions. When I first learned about ChatGPT, I […]
In February, the CSU announced a program that will offer members access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu. As ChatGPT Edu rolls out and more staff, faculty, and students engage with this technology, education on how to use this tool effectively and communicate with AI becomes essential. This post will explore the basics of writing prompts and share tips […]
In Fall 2024, I took a bold leap into the AI frontier and introduced two Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot patients into my Disability Services undergraduate course. The mission? To revolutionize how students learn disability diagnoses, refine their interviewing skills, and conduct biopsychosocial assessments. In a previous blog, I shared my first foray into this AI […]
Motivations As I began my role as an assistant professor at CSUCI in Fall 2023, I introduced a “get-to-know-you” questionnaire as the first assignment. This questionnaire invites students to share their motivations for enrolling in the course, along with details about their academic and personal backgrounds, any concerns, and questions they may have for me. […]
During my summer residency as part of the AI program at CSU Channel Islands, I discovered playlab.ai, a platform that enables users to create their own chatbot AIs. An initial example demonstrated a chatbot designed to answer syllabus-related questions for students—a useful tool indeed. However, I immediately saw the potential for a more innovative application: […]
Are you curious about how to elevate student engagement in your courses? Faculty at CSUCI are doing just that by transforming their teaching with PlayPosit, a digital learning tool that allows instructors to create interactive video experiences through embedded questions, comprehension checks, and reflection prompts (if this sounds familiar to you, you may recall our Engaging […]
Teaching and Learning Innovations is thrilled to welcome Stacey Beauregard to our team! In 2024-2025, Stacey is joining us in the role of Faculty Learning Design Coordinator, a new position that will lead core learning design initiatives for CSU Channel Islands. Stacey Beauregard has been a Lecturer in English at CSUCI for more than ten […]
