OER Community Conversations: October

Open Education Best Practices: Pearls of Wisdom from Minnesota State Practitioners 

Topic: Creating Quizzes with ChatGPT

Presenter: Dr. Bradley Wolfe, Ridgewater College

Faculty are sometimes hesitant to adopt open-education resources because they lack the same type and quality of ancillary resources, such as quiz banks to go with the textbook. ChatGPT is a great resource to help instructors quickly make quizzes using OER textbooks or other written materials. Plus, publisher quiz banks often get posted online for students to easily Google the answers and cheat their way through quizzes and tests. Quizzes created through ChatGPT are an efficient way to create ancillary resources while helping improve academic integrity in the classroom.

Dr. Bradley Wolfe has been teaching communication classes since 2014.  He started as a graduate teaching assistant at Minnesota State University, Mankato for two years. Then Dr. Wolfe worked as an adjunct instructor at MSU, Mankato and South Central College while earning his doctorate in educational leadership. He started at Ridgewater College in the fall of 2021 as a full-time communication instructor.

Topic: What are the biggest mistakes higher ed faculty make when using AI?

We will discuss the ethics of AI, the proper steps we should be taking when we use AI, and share some AI tools that can be used to help in teaching loads.

Presenter: Dr. Julie M. Knutson, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Dr. Julie M. Knutson is a full professor of Health Education and Physical Education at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM); Health Education Program Coordinator. She has served MSUM since the Fall of 2012 and taught 34 years combined in higher ed and in the K-12 system. She received her undergraduate degree in Health and Physical Education from the University of Minnesota Morris. She has a Master’s in Administrative Leadership and Administration (SCSU), a Master’s in Health and Physical Education with DAPE (SCSU), and received her Ph.D. from Capella University in Post-Secondary and Adult Education. She now devotes her time to teacher preparation programs for Health Education and Physical Education/DAPE. She is an active member of MN SHAPE; currently serving as a Board Member for the Higher Ed Division. Julie’s passion is developing high-quality teacher candidates in health education. Julie and her husband, Gale, have three adult children and five grandchildren. 

Open Educational Resource (OER) Community Conversations are open forum conversations for all to share, discuss, and learn from colleagues in the Minnesota State OER community. Hosted by Karen Pikula, the OER Faculty Development Coordinator, these conversations are virtual, hour-long meetings held twice per semester and feature a guest speaker on a topic of interest.

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