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NSPA AI Fast Track
Miguel Guhlin,
Another Think Coming,
2025/05/14
Based on what I've seen from his work online, this would have to be a pretty good workshop. "Welcome to my resources for my NSPA AI Fast Track session, Crafting Better AI Prompts: Unlocking Efficiency and Accuracy for Scholarship Workflows. This page offers a few links and resources curated for your use." The resources listed, though not fully comprehensive, anre nonetheless useful. I'm positing it here to have a link handy for my own sessions coming up.
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Construction of a CURE Community to Empower Faculty and Accelerate Pedagogical ChangeAccelerate Pedagogical Change
Laura M. Christian, Kristin M. Fox, Anthony J. Bell Jr., Sue DeChenne-Peters, Joseph Provost,
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,
2025/05/14
This paper documents the creation of a community of practice (CoP) around the development of a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) in biology. It highlights three major features of a CoP: engaging in activities of mutual interest, building relationships through shared activity, and creating common resources (though all are probably necessary, I would assign the most importance to the third). It also noted that the CoP additionally supported an increased sense of confidence and self-reflection among participants. These all had a direct relationship, I would say, in addressing the barriers listed preventing faculty from developing a CURE for their students.
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Exploring Learning Engineering Design Decision Tracking: Emergent Themes from Practitioners’ Work
Lauren Totino, Aaron Kessler,
TechTrends,
2025/05/14
This paper (16 page PDF) documents the use of a Learning Engineering Evidence and Decision (LEED) tracker to answer three questions. To paraphrase: How do practitioners track and cite sources of influence on design decisions? Requirements and Experience. How do practitioners communicate, revisit, and iterate these decisions? Stakeholder requirements and technical changes. When revisions were made to decisions, what sources of influences led to these changes? Changes to requirements, and experience. I think the study was worth conducting, but the overall pattern that emerges for me is that there isn't much recording of the basis for decisions other than the requirements document. "The exclusive concentration of decisions that cite Requirements: SME across CIF projects... reflects the strong presence of an instructor (SME) throughout the projects and how this influence was top of mind for LDPs when designing."
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What Happened to my Community
Adobe Express,
2025/05/14
Todd Conway writes about the loss and recreation of his community before, during and after Covid. The strength of the article is the personal perspective; it isn't about 'learning loss' or any of the made-up phenomena that followed Covid, it was his own actions and experiences. I confess I am nowhere near as avid a seeker of community as Conway. So I'm a bit of an outsider looking at this perspective, which makes me all the more appreciative that it was shared.
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