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Welcome to EduGems! This is a growing collection of pre-made prompts ("Gems") for educators to use with Google Gemini.
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GPT-5 for Instructional Designers
10 Hacks to Work Smarter & Safer with OpenAI's Latest Model
MYFest25: Let's Prompt Together: Educators Sharing and Refining AI Prompts
MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Anna Mills facilitates this MYFest session held on July 23, 2025.Learn from examples of thoughtfully designed...
Beyond the Hype: What 18 Recent Research Papers Say about How to Use AI in Instructional Design
Aka, how to use (and how not to use) AI in your day to day work
Three Laws for Curriculum Design in an AI Age (opinion)
Anoshua Chaudhuri and Jennifer Trainor offer a framework for curricular decisions.
The Impact of Gen AI on Human Learning: a research summary
A literature review of the most recent & important peer-reviewed studies
The 12 Prompts of Xmas
A Festive Guide on How to Use AI in Instructional Design in 2025
Is NotebookLM Really a Game-Changer?
Experiments with structured content in NotebookLM
How to Build a Custom GPT for Instructional Design
A three-step, hands-on project to deepen your AI skills by building a bot
From Caution to Calcification to Creativity: Reanimating Education with AI's Frankenstein Potential
A Critical Analysis of AI-Assisted Lesson Planning: Evaluating Efficacy and Pedagogical Implications
10 Ways I Use LLMs like ChatGPT as a Professor
ChatGPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, custom GPTs - you name it, I use it. Here's how...
Artificial Intelligence Tools – Faculty Support | Oregon State Ecampus
A principles-based approach in deciding if and how to incorporate artificial intelligence tools into course development, research and other work projects.
The Most Popular AI Tools for Instructional Design (September, 2024)
The tools we use most, and how we use them
How Close is AI to Replacing Instructional Designers?
The Results Part 3: Creating a Course Outline
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
How Close is AI to Replacing Instructional Designers?
The Results Part 1: Writing Learning Objectives
3 Levels of Lesson Planning with GenAI
Generative AI, including ChatGPT, has impacted education. It now incorporates image recognition, text-to-speech, and code generation. Three levels for using GenAI in education are outlined in this …
Using AI While Protecting Student Data
I explore five options for professors considering running student data through AI tools.
How Learning Designers Are Using AI for Analysis
A practical guide on how to 10X your analysis process using free AI tools, based on real use cases
Adapting Your Course to AI: Short Course Content
AI Is Becoming an Integral Part of the Instructional Design Process
What I learned from 150 interviews with instructional designers
AI-Powered Learning Design: Mapping the Jagged Frontier
Practical strategies for leveraging AI’s strengths & avoiding its weaknesses
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TurboLearn AI
Instant notes, flashcards, quizes, and more.
AI Teaching Assistant Pro | Contact North | Contact Nord
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AI Is Becoming an Integral Part of the Instructional Design Process [Hardman]
The Learning with AI initiative from the University of Maine
Rather than try to ban this technology from classrooms outright, this project asks if this moment offers an opportunity to introduce students to the ethical and economic questions wreaked by these new tools, as well as to consider fresh new forms of pedagogy that can exploit them.
AI & Education: A Year in Review
The top five use cases & most popular tools among educators at the end of 2023 - the year than Gen AI shook-up education
Introducing: ChatGPT Edu-Mega-Prompts [Hardman] + several other items re: AI - Learning Ecosystems
Introducing: ChatGPT Edu-Mega-Prompts -- from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr. Philippa Hardman; with thanks to Ray Schroeder out on LinkedIn for this resource How to combine the power of AI + learning science to improve your efficiency & effectiveness as an educator From DSC: Before relaying some excerpts, I want to say that I get the gist