Category: Instructional Design

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The Professor’s AI Action Plan

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

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AI as a Research Partner

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, &

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4 Steps to Accelerate Your Online Course

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

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AI Prompt Templates for Image Creation

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

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AI Prompt Templates for Script Writing

Creating video content can feel like a big lift, especially when balancing the other responsibilities of developing an online course. AI tools can help streamline the process by turning your

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Discussion Boards in an AI World

A common pattern looks like this: a student copies your discussion prompt into a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT or Gemini and pastes the generated answer as their own

Course Facilitation

When Should You Email Students in Your Online Class?

The dynamics of communication between instructors and their students have changed significantly over the last couple of decades. Before the advent of cell phones and the ubiquitous availability of the

Course Facilitation

Course Facilitation Self-Assessment

In an accelerated online program, weeks fly by quickly. For adult learners who balance work, family, and school, the pace can feel especially intense. In this environment, course design matters,

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Tracking Time on Task

Time on task is the amount of time that learners spend, with both direct and indirect instruction, engaged with learning materials and/or in real-world practice. Direct instruction is where the

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Taming Your To-Do List with Microsoft Copilot ​

Whether you’re exploring Microsoft Copilot for the first time or refining how you use it across workstreams, this article breaks down the key concepts, from understanding Copilot versions to getting

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