​​​​Jace Hargis, PhD

As of December 19, 2025 I will be posting these weekly blogs at https://jacehargis.substack.com/

This week I would like to share a bit of a tangent to AI in this study that connects AI with instructors' ability to develop flexible thinking. The AI SoTL article is entitled, “ Teachers’ AI Use and Flexible Thinking Skills: Evidence from a Predictive Correlational Study ”by Dere and Doğan (2025). The authors examined the relationship between teachers’ use of AI and their flexible thinking skills within educational contexts. Conducted across public and private schools in Tür

This week I would like to share a recent AI SoTL article that combines AI with Design Thinking and Pedagogy. The article is entitled, “ Generative AI in Design Thinking Pedagogy: Enhancing Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Ethical Reasoning in Higher Education ” by Rana, Verhoeven and Sharma (2025) ( https://open-publishing.org/journals/index.php/jutlp/article/view/1193/1030  ). This study explores how GenAI can be pedagogically integrated into Design Thinking education to e

Because AI is relatively new, the research is still relatively small, but growing. This week I would like to share a somewhat longitudinal study entitled, “ Embedding Generative AI as a Digital Capability into a Year-Long Skills Program ” by Smith, Sokoya, Moore, Okonkwo, Boyd, Lacey and Francis (2025) ( https://open-publishing.org/journals/index.php/jutlp/article/view/1299/1031  ). In a landmark 2025 study, Smith and colleagues present one of the first empirical models for e