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Gen AI Has Entered the Chat: What Do Marketing Educators Need to Know About Generative AI?
In just a few short years, AI has completely revolutionized the ways most of us engage with the digital world. AI now shapes the ways we search and chat online, as well as the content we see. For students, AI is transforming the learning experience. Recent studies from the Higher Education Policy Institute show that in 2024, use of generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, jumped 53%, with students reporting that they used AI to summarize ideas, explain content, and, yes, generate w
Feb 124 min read


Ready for the AI Marketing Era: How Simulations Can Transform Student Learning
Using AI isn't as simple as pressing the "AI" button and turning it on. Simulations help marketing students better understand the new world they're entering.
Dec 5, 20253 min read


Problem-Framing Is the New Literacy: Q+A with Northwestern University's Jim Lecinski
The AI landscape has evolved significantly since Jim Lecinski's "The AI Marketing Canvas" was released four years ago. With the second edition around the corner, we spoke with Lecinski about all things AI.
Nov 24, 20255 min read


AI Literacy in Higher Education: The Speed of Evolution In and Out of the Classroom
Though many of your students may already be active ChatGPT users, AI literacy in higher education is much more about the techniques than the technology.
Nov 13, 20253 min read


Bloom and Grow: A New Spin on an Old Framework for Learning AI Skills
AI doesn't erode critical thinking skills, according to a King's Business School scholar who reimagined Bloom's Taxonomy for learning AI skills.
Nov 11, 20253 min read


Practical AI Marketing Skills: 6 Real Lessons to Teach in Your Classroom
Get a sneak peek at six practical AI marketing lessons from Novela’s free educator guide — real exercises your students can use to build career-ready skills.
Nov 3, 20256 min read


How to Teach AI Marketing Skills: 6 Ways to Go Beyond ChatGPT
To teach AI marketing skills is less about the where and more about the what. The platforms may evolve, but the driving underlying skill remains the same: Clear, strategic thinking.
Oct 28, 20254 min read


Why AI Makes Experiential Learning More Important in Marketing Education
The entry-level marketing roles where graduates traditionally spent their first year learning by doing are being automated. AI handles mechanical optimization - adjusting bids, testing creative variations, reallocating budget across channels. This creates a challenge for marketing education, but not the one you might expect. The problem isn't that students don't need to learn the mechanics anymore. It's the opposite: students need to understand the mechanics MORE than ever, b
Oct 24, 20254 min read


The Prompt Engineering Trap: Why Your Marketing Students' AI Skills Are Already Outdated
There's a particular flavour of panic that strikes when you've just finished updating your syllabus, and you realise the technology you're teaching has already moved on. If you're a marketing professor who's spent the past semester teaching students to craft the perfect ChatGPT prompt, I have some unfortunate news: prompt engineering, as we've known it, is becoming a foundation skill rather than an end goal. Rather like teaching students to type efficiently - necessary, certa
Oct 17, 20255 min read


How Professors Are Rethinking AI Literacy in Marketing Education
When Anthropic announced that Claude Sonnet 4.5 could run autonomously for thirty hours, it raised a simple but awkward question for...
Oct 9, 20254 min read


How to Teach Real AI Marketing Skills (Free Guide)
AI in the Curriculum: From "Nice-to-Have" to "Non-Negotiable" AI in the curriculum has shifted from being a luxury to a necessity. Most...
Sep 27, 20253 min read


The Professor's Guide to Teaching AI Social Media: From Posts to Predictive Personalization
Your students aren't just using social media. They're using AI to create it.
Aug 7, 20258 min read


The Professor's Guide to Teaching AI Search: From Keywords to Conversations
The Search Revolution Your Students Need to Understand Search is fundamentally changing. While you've been teaching keyword research and...
Jul 9, 202510 min read


When EY Saw the Future of AI Marketing at Kellogg
"This game is a good approximation of what it is we are trying to build internally for ourselves here at EY. You just got a glimpse into the future."
Jun 20, 20254 min read


How AI is Transforming Marketing Strategies
Artificial intelligence (AI) is completely reshaping the way businesses approach their marketing strategies. From automating mundane...
May 28, 20254 min read


Preparing for the Future: Integrating AI into Marketing Education
While 75% of working marketers now use generative AI daily, most marketing syllabi still cover Google Ads interfaces from years past. The gap between what we teach and what students need in their first jobs has never been wider - and it's growing every semester.
May 25, 20255 min read


The Importance of LLM Collaboration Skills in Marketing
Mastering LLM collaboration in a simulation environment offers several critical advantages over learning through trial and error in real-world implementations
May 20, 20254 min read


Generative AI Marketing Case Studies: The Ultimate List
Students don’t just need to understand what AI is; they need to see how it's already being used in the real world, by companies large and small, successful and struggling. They need examples that are concrete, discussable, and recent enough to matter.
This collection of case studies is designed to help.
Apr 28, 20258 min read


From Data to Decisions: Building Analytical Thinking Through Marketing Simulations
This AI skills gap isn't just about technical knowledge - it reflects a deeper challenge in how we teach analytical thinking. Let's explore how digital marketing simulations, particularly those enhanced with AI capabilities, can bridge this gap through experiential learning that connects data to decisions.
Apr 28, 20255 min read


Integrating AI Ethics into Marketing Education: A Practical Guide
This guide explores how educators can meaningfully integrate AI ethics into marketing curricula, with a specific focus on practical, hands-on experiences that prepare students for the real-world ethical challenges they'll face. We'll pay special attention to Week 8 of our curriculum blueprint and show how Novela's AI Marketing Simulation creates a safe environment for students to engage with these critical issues.
Apr 27, 20258 min read
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