In Spring 2025, the Generative AI Professional Development Committee (PDC) focused its efforts on academic integrity—specifically, the acceptable and unacceptable use of AI by students in their coursework. This initiative was driven by concerns about the reliability of AI detection tools (“AI checkers”) and both anecdotal and empirical evidence suggesting an increase in student use […]
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During the Fall 2024 Generative AI PDC, Instructional Designer Paul Keys demonstrated how to create a custom GPT chatbot to act as a course virtual tutor for students. Watch the demo below to learn how. The Spring AI PDC is ongoing! We’d love for you to join us. Contact Paul if you would like to
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We caught up with Assistant Director of Human Resources Alana Etter to discuss putting the New Employee Orientation online. Please describe the project. New Employee Orientation (NEO) New Employee Orientation is an important session in companies. It is a way to introduce the new hire to the College, some of its policies & procedures, traditions
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Childhood Development Assistant Professor and Program Director Pamela Norcross, Ph.D, recently used a video assignment in her CD 220 in Fall 2023. We caught up with Dr. Norcoss to see how it went. Please describe the Sesame Street Project assignment. Dr. Norcross: Sesame Street is a familiar TV show that was developed in 1969 to
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This video presentation gives an overview of IDAT’s online module production service, demonstrating what it is and how to get started. Examples from across campus are highlighted. If interested in learning more, contact IDAT. To change the video view, hover over the video and use the toggle icon.
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Faced with having to fill in while multiple colleagues were out, and always looking for new ways to engage students, Director of the Dietetic Internship program Cathie Ostrowski used an Escape Room activity to solve both challenges. On the video below, Cathie guides you through how she used Google Slides and Forms to create this
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A discussion with Dr. Lanae Hood on the nutrition resource map created for Hunger Week 2022. What did you do? Dr. Lanae Hood and nutrition graduate students in Program Planning and Evaluation collaborated with Paul Keys to create an interactive basic needs resource map for Meredith College students. This was part of a class project
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Previously we discussed how to use backwards design to design an entire course. You can apply some backwards design principles when creating your modules as well. Brightspace’s HTML editor and Insert Stuff tool are great for creating modules that provide clarity to your students by keeping the rationale for your decisions easily accessible and in
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Numerous instructional and course design models depend upon “backwards design” as their prime organizing principle. Many instructors start by deciding which content they want to include in their course, then decide on assessments, then course objectives. Backwards design reverses that process, making content the last thing you would choose. Flower Darby, in her book Small
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