@inproceedings{despain_2024, title={Bridling, Taming and Riding the AI Beast}, url={https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd24.2024.17378}, DOI={10.4995/HEAd24.2024.17378}, abstractNote={When ChatGPT was broadly released in the fall of 2022, university faculty and administrators struggled to evaluate and predict AI's impact on higher education. They also faced the immediate need to create policies for its ethical use in academic settings, as well as devise ways to incorporate AI into daily teaching and learning. This article offers the description and results of a teacher-led student group incorporating AI into a learning experience using three distinct projects. Generally students found the use of AI, used in a thoughtfully prescribed manner, in filling knowledge gaps, as a thought partner, and in analyzing original L2 writing, as a positive tool in their learning. It is recommended that higher education instructors design learning and assessment experiences using AI to enhance the learning process.}, author={Despain, Jennifer A.}, year={2024}, month={Jun} }
 @inproceedings{despain_despain_2023, title={Nurturing the human connection: Increasing student engagement and personal connection in an asynchronous language course}, url={https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd23.2023.16366}, DOI={10.4995/HEAd23.2023.16366}, abstractNote={Based on course evaluations, student needs and expectations regarding asynchronous courses have changed during and after the COVID pandemic. With the goal of meeting, understanding and responding to the needs of the post-COVID student, intentional modifications were made to an online, asynchronous course to ensure attention to the student as a whole. While respecting the need for asynchronous offerings, designing increased opportunities for human face-to-face interaction in the form of guided personal and language goal setting sessions, orientation sessions, chapter check-ins and exam preparation sessions were all implemented. Initial feedback results show a positive shift and satisfaction in learning, resilience and growth not only for students, but also for instructors.}, author={Despain, Scott and Despain, Jennifer A}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @book{despain_despain_zayas-bazan_2001, title={Lab Manual, Arriba!: Comunicacion y cultura (3rd ed.)}, ISBN={0130896098}, publisher={Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall}, author={Despain, J. S. and Despain, J. and Zayas-Bazan, E.}, year={2001} }