Lori Mumpower
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Lori Mumpower
@lorimumpower.bsky.social
I’m an educational developer, leading a team of educational developers at the University of Illinois Chicago. Looking for other folks on here for kindness, support, and smarts.
Happy to announce that our Center will be launching a fully-online, self-paced course for faculty: “Equity-Minded Course Design.” Learn more at teaching.uic.edu
New research from Sweden shows that higher ed course design is at least as important as teaching/teacher for both student engagement & student perceptions of course quality. Implication: teaching evaluation forms should ask about course design at least as much as teaching.
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Course design as a stronger predictor of student evaluation of quality and student engagement than teacher ratings - Higher Education
Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) has indicated that course design is at least as important as teachers’ performance for student-rated perceived quality and student engagement. Our data...
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December 3, 2024 at 8:56 PM
I could not agree more with this take. I think acknowledging use of a chat bot is one thing, but citing it makes no sense whatsoever.
One of the weirder scholarly practices regarding generative AI that seems to have been normalized is citing chatbots.

I say normalized because many univs & scholarly associations recommend it as an element of proper scholarship.

But it doesn't make sense when you consider what a citation means. 1/
December 3, 2024 at 12:58 AM
I dreamed Steve Carell fired me last night. Not Michael Scott from The Office, but actor Steve Carell.

I wonder what I did to deserve it.
November 24, 2024 at 12:28 AM
I’ve been thinking a lot about generative AI and the impact that the presence of tools like ChatGPT are going to have on the reception of student writing. I wonder if less perfect writing will become more valued because it’s thought to be authentically written. 1/5
November 21, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Reposted by Lori Mumpower
@polarisdotca.bsky.social, see below for an update to the AI Assessment Scale!
November 19, 2024 at 9:52 PM
I’m very proud of this article, which comes out today! Thank you to my co-authors, Chad Rohrbacher and @joshuacaulkins.bsky.social

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Measuring pandemic change: Analyzing syllabi for student-centeredness over time
Researchers seek to measure the extent to which faculty increased their student-centered practices in response to COVID-19 by analyzing course syllabi across three semesters. Faculty were randomly sel...
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November 18, 2024 at 9:55 PM
I left X a long time ago and just hung out on LinkedIn, but this feels like the space I should be in to connect with my #educationaldeveloper peers.
November 18, 2024 at 8:23 PM