Implications of recent and rapid advances in the development and availability of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT are resounding across the landscape of teaching and learning. From discussions of academic integrity to efforts in course design, AI is quickly becoming an embedded element of the teaching and learning process that requires the acknowledgement and attention of instructors, instructional designers, and academic leaders.
The Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning recognizes the emerging opportunities and challenges that many instructors at Ohio State face in understanding, anticipating, and responding to AI in the context...
A Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID) is a midterm feedback tool that can help any instructor at Ohio State develop their teaching. This includes graduate instructors who may be early in their teaching careers, or those who may be teaching lab or recitation sections rather than teaching their own course. Facilitation by a Drake Institute consultant allows for the collection of written and verbal student feedback that is anonymous, detailed, and actionable, along with support in interpreting the feedback and making changes to instruction.
Rhiar Kanouse, a graduate instructor in the Department of Comparative Studies, shares her...
Much of the work is collaborative in the field of public health and environmental health sciences (EHS).
The College of Public Health's (CPH) PUBHEHS 3310: Current Issues in Global Environmental Health course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental environmental factors and processes that impact the health and well-being of humans locally, regionally, and internationally. For this course, instructor Dr. Paul Rosile, associate professor of Public Health Practice in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, worked with CPH's Instructional Design Coordinator and Drake Institute Affiliate Margaret DiMaria ...
Tragedies, such as the recent violence at Club Q in Colorado Springs and in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park, can occur at any point in semester and can deeply affect students. Given that experiences outside the classroom can impact student learning and academic performance (Ambrose, 2010), how can instructors support their students while they process reactions to traumatic events? In the aftermath of national or world tragedies, instructors can take a three-pronged approach: show awareness by acknowledging traumatic events and their impacts (especially on vulnerable communities), offer information on resources available for help, and be flexible with students...
A mock trial is a dynamic learning exercise that utilizes interactive role play to engage students in collaborative, active learning.
Experiential learning is a critical component of sport management education, which was lacking within KNSISM 4607: Legal Aspects of Sport - a core course within the Sport Industry major. In 2018, the KNSISM instructors received a University Institute for Teaching and Learning (UITL) Research and Implementation Grant that provided them the motivation, resources, and support to integrate mock trials into the curriculum within the Sport Industry program.
"Developing our application for the UITL Research and...
Mary Sterenberg, Drake institute affiliate and assistant professor won the Public Relations Student Society of America Faculty Advisor of the Year award, presented by the national Public Relations Society of America (PRSSA) organization. Sterenberg received this award at the PRSSA International Conference in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 14.
This award is based on student nominations and goes through a rigorous judging process.
"It was extra special because Ohio State alum Linda Thomas-Brooks is currently CEO of the parent PRSSA organization and was able to congratulate me in person," Sterenberg says. Linda Thomas-Brooks serves on the...
A few years before the pandemic, an undergraduate student mentioned the upcoming Halloween weekend and randomly mentioned that vampires were their biggest fear. Everyone laughed. But that comment rubbed up against so many other things I’d been hearing and reading: real fears and stresses that students were facing.
In response, I developed a classroom mental health check-in that begins by simply asking, “What’s your greatest worry or biggest fear?” Each semester, I ask my students to respond anonymously using blank 3x5 index cards or via Poll Everywhere. I regularly received serious and funny responses when I first...
"The most exciting result of TIES awards is the benefits to the education of the future healthcare workforce," says Drake Institute Affiliate and Co-Director of TIES Academy Joni Tornwall. "The work they do today to build the confidence and competence of nurses who will care for us in the future is invaluable."
TIES awards also result in publication in peer-reviewed journals focused on nursing education for new and emerging...
At the 2022 Original Lilly Conference, Drake Institute Affiliate Nicholas Denton, Ph.D., and Amy Kulesza, Ph.D., demonstrated that lab courses encouraging inquiry-based student learning and team-based learning enhanced undergraduate students' motivations to persistent in STEM, including sense of science identity, STEM community, project ownership, and networking.
"In particular, students reported that more opportunities to overcome challenges through collaboration and greater appreciation for the societal impact of their lab work made them feel more like a scientist under this inquiry-team-based learning lab design," Denton says.
Denton and Kuleza challenged educators in the attendance to think of...
First created in 2017, Geog 3753.02: The Geography of the European Union (EU) was offered in 2018 at Neapolis University Pafos in Cyprus, with nine students who completed the course.
Constantinou reviewed student feedback, which revealed two needs: more focus on pre-orientation and group cohesion before departure, and greater emphasis on the cultural aspects of Cyprus. "I...