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Introducing Perspectives with Personalized Practice
CDI Team|June 24, 2026Discover Personalized Practice, a new Perspectives feature that helps students build dialogue skills through adaptive exercises and real-time feedback.
The Difference Between Generic AI and AI Designed for Dialogue
CDI Team|June 24, 2026Generic AI can support dialogue education, but research suggests meaningful outcomes require intentional design.
Three Questions to Ask Before Deploying AI Dialogue Tools on Your Campus
CDI Team|June 22, 2026Students use AI on and off campus. The question for educators who want to deploy AI for dialogue training is not if to use it, but how.
AI on Campus Is a Risk. Just Not in the Way You Think
CDI Team|June 1, 2026Can AI help students learn the skills of constructive dialogue? New evidence suggests yes, but the details matter more than you might expect.
Measuring Civic Discourse on Campus: A Practitioner's Guide
Sam Moulton, PhD|May 27, 2026This post offers practical guidance for campus practitioners on how to measure civic discourse well.
Can You Measure Constructive Dialogue?
Ryan Carlson, PhD|May 22, 2026This CDI blog post explores how the field is moving from anecdotal evidence to more rigorous approaches to measuring constructive dialogue.
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