Welcome to the Faculty Development and Innovation Podcast - the FDIP - the official podcast of the Faculty Development and Innovation Center at Eastern Illinois University. Your hosts are Dr. Michael Gillespie, Director, and Kim Ervin, Instructional Designer with the FDIC. This podcast is to promote teaching excellence through the sharing of information related to instructional design, teaching strategies, and innovation. This podcast offers actionable steps to implement in your courses for the benefit of teaching and learning.
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FDIC Instructional Designer Kim Ervin presents some tips for crafting prompts that drive effective interactions with large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Recognizing the pivotal role of a prompt to enrich a response from these models, this episode continues the conversation about AI’s like ChatGPT and Bard and share information regarding the art of crafting effective prompts.
Links for Show Notes:
How to Use ChatGPT to Boost your Writing blogpost by Ethan Mollick
Informational Webpage for the Vanderbilt University Coursera Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT Course
Vanderbilt University Coursera Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT Course link
A Prompt Pattern Catalog to Enhance Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT PDF link
GitHub Awesome ChatGPT Prompts
FDIC Director Dr. Michael Gillespie talks with Dr. Lauri DeRuiter-Willems about her FDIC Fellowship on Open Educational Resources (OER).
Knight-Davis, Stacey and DeRuiter-Willems, Lauri, "Instructor and Librarian Collaboration on a Course Without a Textbook. (2018). Faculty Research & Creative Activity. 246
Booth Library LibGuide: Open Educational Resources
Lauri DeRuiter Willems: LibGuide
FDIC Director Dr. Michael Gillespie and Instructional Designer Kim Ervin talk about the 2023 FSI Annual Conference and look ahead for the coming year.
FDIC Director Dr. Michael Gillespie talks with Joe Fatheree, an educator, activist, scholar, and thought-leader on AI in education.
GPT-4 Is Here. But Most Faculty Lack AI Policies (Inside Higher Ed, 22-March, 2023)
AI in Higher Education (Ray Schroder, UPCEA Sr. Fellow, UIS)
Everybody is Cheating: Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy (NPR, 26-January, 2023)
Kim Ervin shares ways to increase the potential for office hours to be used by learners.
Kim Ervin shares best practices for creating an accessible Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
Resource Information for Creating Accessible MicroSoft PowerPoint Presentations Provided by EIU FDIC
Fall 2022 ISS Departments with Contact Information (Effective 9-01-2022).xlsx or email support@eiu.edu
Kim Ervin shares best practices for creating an accessible Microsoft Word source document that can then be saved to a PDF.
Kim Ervin reviews the definition of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and describes methods for EIU faculty to caption videos.
Dr. April Jackson, the Director of EIU's Office of Student Disability Services joins FDIC Director Dr. Michael Gillespie for an interview on UDL, how faculty can make simple accommodations that will benefit all students, and how student experience our classes when we don't!
FDIC Director Dr. Michael Gillespie interviews Instructional Designer Kim Ervin to learn more about her work and approach to working with faculty.
FDIC Instructional Designer Kim Ervin talks with Dr. Trevor Burrows, the Digital Initiatives Coordinator for the Center for Student Innovation in Booth Library.
FDIC Instructional Designer Kim Ervin talks with Steve Brantley of Booth Library about OERs and their development and use across modalities.
FDIC Instructional Designer Kim Ervin discusses creating an instructor's presence in online classrooms.
Dr. Michael Gillespie and Kim Ervin discuss why the FDIP and what to expect.
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