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Integrating AI into teaching research methods

Published on May 28, 2026   31 min

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Hello and welcome. This is Dr. Sarah Ransdell. I am a health science professor at Nova Southeastern University. I would like to talk about integrating AI into teaching research methods. I have been teaching research methods mainly to health care professionals for many decades, and we've all lived through the first revolution involving computers, which was to move things mostly online. The COVID pandemic hastened that a bit and students find that they like things online, and they use computers very much for very many things, and they are always ahead of the curve. It's important to talk about this integration as much as we may or may not want to see it because it is already here. So I would like to begin by saying that
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teaching research methods isn't easy. Those of you that teach it now know, and students sometimes resist scientific writing and scientific thinking, and they confuse it with narrative writing and the writing they see in quick burst in things like social media. So we from the old days are teaching them to do science writing in a very particular system using APA style or AMA style. The objective is going to be to teach them to think like scientists, even if they may not become scientists. So that their entire lives, they're able to use scientific knowledge in the best way possible and now to integrate AI into their lives in a way that is productive and encourages them to think and always be questioning the things that they see from any source that they might view.

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