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2025 brought even more urgency to finding an answer to the question, “What is the role of educators when it comes to AI?” In early 2025, students recognized AI was generating uncertainty around future job prospects and noted a lack of formal AI integration into their studies.1 (Risepoint, 2025). As
AI-empowered research is reshaping the way we summarize, interpret, and discover knowledge. Faculty and students can now look to AI to potentially accelerate literature reviews and identify new hypotheses1 (Bolaños, Salatino, Osborne, & Motta, 2024). Decades ago, scholars visited their university library, with its grand bookshelves of knowledge and calming space filled with
Course acceleration is the process of transitioning a traditional, semester-long course into a shorter format, typically seven to eight weeks, without sacrificing academic rigor or integrity (Pastore, 2010). The goal is to rethink your course structure, focus on learning outcomes, and boost student engagement, not on cutting corners or condensing
Images and visuals can transform the way students understand your course materials. Whether illustrating a complex idea, visualizing data, or creating a relatable story moment, AI tools can help faculty quickly generate teaching-ready media. Whether you’re designing scenes that support storytelling or data-driven graphics like charts and infographics, this guide
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