InstructureCon 2024
This summer my colleagues Eric Carlson, Ben Post and I attended InstructureCon 2024 at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Instructure is the company that provides Canvas, NMC’s recently adopted Learning Management System that will replace Moodle...
Do the ‘Cite’ Thing, Part II
In an earlier post, I surveyed differing approaches to issues of sourcing, transparency and ‘information integrity’ in generative AI platforms. The underlying questions there dealt with how AI tools handle sourcing and citation within their own algorithmically generated output. A second distinct but related challenge deals with developing new norms around transparency and disclosure as it relates to human use of AI tools in the human authorship of work—which is to say our work, and the work of our students.
Do the ‘Cite’ Thing: Collisions Between Humans, AI Chatbots, and Citation
Several recent conversations with colleagues at NMC have me mulling over emergent challenges at the intersection of Generative AI and academic practices regarding sourcing and citation. Among these challenges, two seem most prominent. Both involve preserving the integrity of a chain of information—what came from where, or who contributed what—but in slightly different ways.
Moodle Minute(s) S2, E20: Displaying Activity Descriptions in Moodle Courses
This week’s tutorial discusses how to add activity descriptions to your Moodle course’s main page. Watch to learn all about it… ABOUT THIS SERIES: Moodle/Panopto Minute(s) are short, weekly tutorial videos that explore small-but-helpful Moodle (or Panopto)...