Provide Guidelines for Student AI Use
Don’t Just Learn It, Apply It.
Why should you care about a 1980 study on analogies? Because it still explains why students don’t always transfer what they’ve learned to new situations—and what we can do about it.
In this classic paper, Mary Gick and Keith Holyoak showed that people often fail to apply a known solution from one context (like a military story) to another (a medical problem) unless they’re cued to see the connection.
Help with Grading? Yes, please!
Admit it—sometimes there are other things you would rather be doing than grading. You can speed up the process with a little help from Gemini which protects student data privacy under our UMS contract (you must access it through the MyCampus portal).
Engaged learning during distraction: a case study of successful working moms in distance education
This is a piece of my own research I conducted with Teri St. Pierre and others that is very relevant to designing YourPace courses. To understand the experience of academically high achieving working mothers in distance education, we interviewed and … Read More
PDF Accessibility Training Videos
This PDF Accessibility training series was provided to Microsoft employees on creating accessible PDF documents. Use these videos, along with documentation from Adobe to learn to create, remediate, and check for accessibility issues. To test your knowledge, use the PDF sample documents shared by Microsoft
Facilitated Feedback
Why wait until the end of the semester to get feedback from your students on the Student Evaluations of Teaching in Blue? With our Facilitated Feedback program, otherwise known as Ongoing Learning Assessment, we can help you understand the student experience in your courses, regardless of modality, with enough time to effect change that can improve learning.
Analog Inspiration
This spreadsheet contains 47 teaching ideas from “Analog Inspiration,” a card deck designed by (© 2025 Carter Moulton). You can learn more and purchase the deck at Analog Inspiration AI. For example, the idea for Authenticity is: Share your learning outcomes with AI … Read More
New Meta-Analysis Probes Technology’s Link to Cognitive Aging
In this meta-analysis, researchers found that use of digital technologies was associated with a reduced risk of cognitive impairment and reduced rates of cognitive decline, even when controlling for demographics, SES, and health. Of course, correlation is not causation, so there may be other underlying factors. However, the good news is that technology does not rot your brain! Those that had the best outcomes used technology for more cognitively demanding tasks versus scrolling through social media. It’s not the tool; it’s how you use it.
Retrieval Practice
Did you know that one of the simplest and most effective ways to remember something is to take time to forget it and then work hard to remember it?