In Review: 2024

What you and other higher educators found interesting/useful this year.

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Welcome to AutomatED: the newsletter on how to teach better with tech.

In each edition, I share what I have learned — and am learning — about AI and tech in the university classroom. What works, what doesn't, and why.

In this last piece for 2024, I share…

  1. the top 10 links you clicked this year

  2. the top 4 newsletters by web views this year

  3. the top 3 newsletters by click rate this year

  4. the top 3 newsletters by email open rate this year

Let’s see what you — and the nearly 5000 other higher educators subscribed to AutomatED — found interesting and useful this year!

Last time I emailed you, I outlined seven tech- and AI-related tasks for professors to consider completing before the spring semester:

  • experiment with the latest AI tools

  • review past teaching performance

  • update your course design

  • build custom AI assistants

  • organize your non-AI technology

  • consider AI's role in your research

  • take time to rest

Check it out via the link above if you missed it in the holiday rush…

I also announced that I have been collaborating with learning experience maestro Charlie Fuller on an interactive and engaging course that walks you through building custom GPTs. By the end, you have at least one custom GPT, fully ready to deploy. This course is like giving steroids to my ✨Premium Tutorial on the topic. It will be released next week.

If this interests you, express interest via the poll below so we can keep you in the loop:

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Now, for this week, I’ve dug through my analytics dashboard to extract several lists of the top AutomatED content from the past year.

I know it’s easy to have missed important tidbits when so much is going on with tech and AI right now.

And it doesn’t help that I send so many emails... Apparently, I’ve sent 144,400 this year, across all subscribers:

But what do I mean by “top AutomatED content”? I am referring to what you — my 4,947 subscribers (~70% PhDs) — opened and clicked, as well as what garnered the most interest from web viewers. (Most web viewers are not subscribers, and they arrive via direct links or organic search.)

Below are four sections:

  1. the top 10 links you clicked

  2. the top 4 newsletters by web views

  3. the top 3 newsletters by click rate

  4. the top 3 newsletters by email open rate

Stay tuned next week for my thoughts on where AI is headed in 2025, what to keep an eye on if you are going to be teaching, and my plans for AutomatED.

Thanks for a great year!

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🌐 Top 4 AutomatED Pieces from 2024,
by Web Views

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🖱️ Top 3 AutomatED Pieces from 2024,
by Click Rate

✉️ Top 3 AutomatED Pieces from 2024,
by Email Open Rate

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