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Perusall can be a valuable ally for instructors in the Humanities classroom, as it can promote active reading, critical thinking, and student collaboration. It can also give instructors valuable insights into their students' learning and allow them to adjust their teaching accordingly. In this presentation, we will share our practices for successfully incorporating Gen AI into the classroom and improving the quality of education while facilitating higher long-term memory retention, better stud..

As teachers grapple with how to create “AI” proof assignments, Perusall offers teachers an opportunity to bring the “human” back into the reading and writing process. In this teaching demonstration, I will model how to use an on-ground gallery walk (or the use of Jamboard for online courses) to encourage students to make “schema connections” with texts and how to transfer those “schema connections” into active engagement with Perusall. In this way, teachers can use Perusall to introduce the...

While there are academic concerns regarding the ethics of students using AI, many workplaces are looking for employees skilled in the technology. This session will discuss reasons it is important to incorporate AI into the classroom and include strategies for doing so. The focus will be on preparing students for the reality of a world where AI is abundantly available and regularly used through an engaging and interactive presentation that enc...

Discover an innovative approach to incorporating AI in education with "Integrating AI into the Writing Process: A Reflective Approach to Enhance Student Learning." This presentation proposes a strategy that promotes responsible AI usage, enhances critical thinking, and retains student authorship. Aligning with the theme of "Trending Topics in Education & Social Learning," and answering the question, "How can we leverage generative AI to promote learning?" This talk offers a practical framework for educators seeking to balance technology with traditional learning methods.

The presentation explores the potential of student-generated memes as a pedagogical tool and as an instrument of community-building in a first-year university level academic reading class. I emphasize that encouraging the students to create class-related memes and include them in their Perusall comments does not necessarily lead to the disruption of scholarly discussion. On the contrary, it helps the students master complex concepts easier and overcome the feelings of disconnectedness and loneliness that may arise in first-year students in a digital learning environment. At the same time, I note some of the potential pitfalls of this approach to education.

Navigating generative AI's integration into curriculum is complex. This session introduces an innovative flowchart guiding educators through critical decision-making junctures as they consider their generative AI course policy. Taking a step-by-step approach that asks educators to reflect on critical questions, educators gain insights into crafting effective AI policies that enhance student compliance while upholding an inclusive learning...

In this session learn how we conquered the challenge of rolling out Perusall at Pima Community College. The Academic Learning Technologies (ALT) Team, or ALT Avengers, used our diverse skills, from strategic planning to technical expertise, ensuring success. Informed by pilot survey findings, we meticulously planned, executed, and evaluated our strategy to maximize engagement. In the pre-launch phase, careful planning and promotion set the stage. Post-launch, 121 hours of instruction enhanced faculty proficiency. Our journey resulted in increased usage, robust support, and stronger collaboration. Join us to discover the power of careful rollout planning in driving your Perusall adoption.

The AI Institute for Teachers held at the University of Mississippi in July 2023 and in January 2024 helped enhance AI literacy for over 80 faculty across disciplines. The curriculum provided hands-on experience with generative AI tools for text, images, audio, and video, while critically exploring ethical implications like bias and academic integrity challenges. Participants gained pragmatic skills in prompt engineering, using AI writing assistants and reading tools, speech recognition applic..

We introduce a novel type of assessment that allows for efficient grading of higher order thinking skills. In this assessment, a student reviews and corrects a technical memo that has errors in its formulation or process. To overcome the grading challenges imposed by essay-type responses in large undergraduate courses, we provide a Visual Basic for Applications Excel tool for instructors, ensuring efficient grading of student submissions. We report our experience using it in a multisection introductory business analytics course over several years and present survey-based evidence indicating that students perceive it to be clear and beneficial for learning.

This presentation will introduce three simple yet transformative questions that educators can ask themselves while creating lessons, activities, and assessments. Attendees of this video session will be provided with inspiration for creating non-disposable learning materials that are fun, meaningful, and invite ethical use of generative AI. All academic disciplines welcome!

Both a challenge and an opportunity, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) forces us to rethink our assessment practices. If the misuse of GenAI means students aren’t benefitting from certain formative assessments, do we give them up? Or can we find a better way forward? In this session, a college physics teacher discusses her struggles and successes dealing with the increasing misuse of GenAI. As part of a multipronged approach, an activity is shared that is designed to help students....

In the last couple of years, technology has evolved rapidly. As educators, we need to adapt and change accordingly. Putting learning into practice makes it fun, increases the involvement from participants and provide them chances to use what they have learned in a more applied manner. It is interesting to apply the experiential learning for students based on generative AI. We can start changing our assessments strategies to leverage generative AI as a learning tool.

The author has recently developed an Open Education Resource (OER) textbook utilizing ChatGPT. The textbook is currently being employed alongside Perusall in an Information Systems course at the graduate level. This presentation will outline the obstacles faced and the most effective methods uncovered when utilizing generative AI to produce an OER textbook.

This paper proposes hybrid intelligence to enhance collaborative learning in Perusall. By combining faculty expertise with AI tools like ChatGPT, educators can generate inclusive, Bloom’s-aligned question banks that reduce workload. The approach supports authentic assessments, promotes critical thinking, and encourages students to use AI responsibly—building skills for future success in an AI-enhanced workforce.

This presentation reports my experience and recommendations on teaching generative AI to enhance learners’ creativity, develop critical thinking, and introduce unexpected uses for these new technologies. Since 2023, I have taught students ways to use generative AI in undergraduate courses at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I will share details about assignment parameters, in-class processes, and work outcomes in this session. Participants will gain insights into how...

Social annotation capitalizes on a natural inclination to annotate, and then it makes insights shareable. Assessment of reading comprehension can take many different forms (templates, quizzes, reports), but those tend to be isolated products. Qualitative feedback from students on both traditional reading assessment and annotation approaches could help inform future teaching strategies. Quantitative measurement of annotation can establish baselines for a given course routine. In this brief video presentation, social annotation is compared to a traditional reading assessment template as a content learning tool, and two social annotation platforms (Perusall and hypothes.is) are contrasted on multiple output measures.

The artful balance between encouraging students’ motivation to learn and simultaneously discouraging gaming our heuristics is tricky. Studies have helped us “understand the factors that may explain students’ enhanced motivation and affect with collaborative digital learning using social annotative tools (SA)” (Li and Li, 2021, p. 1). Perusall’s synchronization with learning management systems (LMS) and its ability to customize scoring might offer promise for achieving balance. Perusall can offset rewards for heuristics and customize scoring for assignments. This paper includes helpful resources for customizing scoring settings, steps for exporting data from Perusall, and a customizable template for semester data management to help inform your data-driven decisions for determining assignment weights.

Bridging or narrowing the gap between actual and desired reading instruction is not achieved by practice as usual; game changers are needed. The purpose of this case study presentation is to report on how we use Perusall to ensure that students comply with reading requirements, how we use the video function to provide discussion and feedback on practical tasks, and how we facilitate a professional learning community among teacher educators, pre-service teachers and mentor teachers situated across the country.

Driving retention with active learning sounds easy. It isn’t. I have been working on replacing large lecture with a team based/project based approach for 10 years now but total sucess is elusive. Removing exams and replacing assessment with mastery grading has become one of the cornerstones of this approach. This presentation will provide an example of one way to approach mastery grading of a team based project based course with about 80 engineering students. Parallel efforts to take advantage of the diversity in the class and use undergrads as Inclusion Ambassadors to drive inclusion is also discussed.

This session explores the use of ‘choice’ and social interaction to promote and sustain student engagement in hybrid learning environment. In particular, we discuss our innovative technique designed to offer choice in learning through various content delivery methods, supported by opportunities for social interactions (formal or informal) and collaborative learning. During our session, we explore the implementation of this innovative technique in a graduate-level course, share students’ responses to this learning experience, and consider lessons learned for future teaching delivery in graduate courses.