AI and Online Teaching Online
Resources
Introduction
These resources focus on AI in online teaching. It includes many that are explicitly about online teaching and also some resources about AI generally.
Websites
Seton Hill University Writing Center Website
This page provides information about AI, focusing on how it relates to writing and education. While these resources are mostly for educators, you may find some may be relevant to use with students.
“OLC is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators, dedicated to advancing quality digital teaching and learning experiences designed to reach and engage the modern learner – anyone, anywhere, anytime.” See the “Professional Learning” tab at the bottom of the website for saved webinars. They also have a newsletter available - “Sign up for updates” link at the bottom of the professional learning page.
Chronicle of Higher Education Article How to Be A Better Online Teacher
This is one of many articles related to online teaching from the Chronicle of Higher Education. While the focus is not on AI this is a good place to check for new work being written about AI. Go to the Chronicle's Homepage and click on the link at the bottom of the page labeled “Free Reports and Guides.” Another useful link is the Professional Development link also located near the bottom of the homepage. Finally, another Chronicle resource is to sign up for their newsletter to be notified of free webinars. Even if you cannot attend, if you sign up for it, you will be given access to a recording which you can view later.
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Books
The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes by Flower Darby
“The happier the teacher, the better the learning experience—for instructor and student alike. With this equation at its core, The Joyful Online Teacher provides practical guidance for making distance learning infinitely more enjoyable and effective, and for improving the online teaching experience in asynchronous classes that often take place in Learning Management Systems (LMSs) like Canvas or Blackboard Learn, and where instructors and students rarely interact in real time, contributing to low completion rates.”
Unmasking AI My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines By Joy Buolamwini
“Applying an intersectional lens to both the tech industry and the research sector, [Buolamwini] shows how racism, sexism, colorism, and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity “excoded” and therefore vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools. Computers, she reminds us, are reflections of both the aspirations and the limitations of the people who create them.”
“Bertram Gallant and Rettinger provide practical suggestions to help faculty revise the conversation around integrity, refocus classes and students on learning, reconsider the structure and goals of assessment, and generally reframe our response to cheating. At the core of this strategy is a call for teachers, academic staff, institutional leaders, and administrators to rethink how we “show up” for students, and to reinforce and fully support quality teaching, learning, and assessment.”
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Distracted Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It by James Lang
“In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students' attention.”
“In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.”
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Newsletters & Substacks
Education Disrupted: Teaching and Learning in An AI World
How will AI change learning and instruction? How can we best prepare students for the AI World? By Stefan Bauschard
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Educating AI: “Let’s figure out how to best integrate and implement generative AI into today’s classrooms! By Nick Potkalitsky
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Research Articles and Briefings
Primary focus: This briefing paper focuses specifically on fully online credentialled programs (also known as ‘external’ or ‘distance’ programs)1. Broader applicability: While focused on fully online credentialled programs, many of the principles, strategies, and considerations discussed have broader applicability to blended or mixed-mode programs and on-campus or internal programs, where online learning, teaching, and/or assessment may play a significant role.
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