Category: Teaching

Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Faculty members explain how to keep students engaged in their own learning and prevent them from relying on AI. By  Emma Whitford December 16, 2025 Full article available on Inside Higher Ed. Excerpts below. Experts agree that instructors must remind their students that learning requires practice. … Initial conversations around…

Peary-Macmillan Arctic Museum Our next exhibit: Mamaqtuq! It is Delicious!: Traditional Foods of the North is scheduled to open April 2. This will be a fascinating exhibit on the changing ways Inuit have hunted and fed themselves in response to climate change, pollution, colonialism, and other factors. If you’re planning a visit before April, our permanent exhibition on the second floor, At Home in…

How do we act in alignment with what’s most important? Last week, I spoke (online) at a Lunch and Learn session for faculty at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. The talk was called “The Coherent Professor: Finding Productivity and Purpose in a Whole Faculty Life” and synthesized many of the themes you will read…

Tami J. Eggleston, Gabie E. Smith Access full article here. Excerpts below. Much emphasis has been placed on the use of activities at the beginning of a course to provide opportunities for introductions, begin to create a comfortable classroom atmosphere to encourage discussion and learning, or develop a sense of community and group identity. In…

by Emily Pitts Donahoe on Substack Back in July, I wrote about how I planned to handle AI in my classroom this fall, and in September, I shared some of my AI-related materials. If you want full details about what I’m doing, feel free to explore those posts, as well as the “Use of Generative AI” document…