Jennie De Gagne, PhD, DNP

Educator · Scholar · Innovator

I am a nursing education scholar focused on how nurses and nurse educators learn, teach, and grow in an increasingly digital landscape. I mentor current and future nurse educators and study the practices that help preserve judgment, integrity, and human connection as technology reshapes education.

My work sits at the intersection of teaching and technology. I examine cybercivility, cyberethics, and the thoughtful use of emerging tools such as generative AI. I am especially interested in how technology can support deeper thinking without replacing the judgment and relationships at the center of learning.

Alongside my scholarship, I create practical learning experiences, including interactive games, story-based webtoons, AI Art Codebook, and AI coaching tools, that bring these ideas directly into the work of students and educators.

Areas of focus

Online Teaching & Learning
Cybercivility & cyberethics
AI in nursing education
Digital professionalism
Evidence-based teaching
Effective use of technology
Instructional design
Faculty development

AI Tools I Built

Coaching tools for real learning

AiDiCo

AI Disclosure Coach

Disclosing AI use as professional identity, not compliance

AiDiCo helps nursing students disclose their use of generative AI the way a professional would: mapping what the AI contributed, documenting how they verified and revised it, and articulating the human judgment they brought. It reframes disclosure from a rule to follow into a habit of integrity.

Grounded in peer-reviewed scholarship:
De Gagne, J. C., & Gris, I. (2026). AI disclosure uncertainty in nursing education: A pedagogical scaffold for professional learning. Nurse Education Today, 163, 107097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2026.107097

Try AiDiCo → Opens in Google Gemini

ObjEx

ObjEx Coach

Objective Explore: a coaching partner for writing learning objectives

ObjEx Coach helps educators think through, draft, and revise learning objectives across the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. It does not generate “final” objectives. Instead it works as a coaching and revision partner, supporting reflection, critique, and alignment with standards of quality.

Educators apply their own professional judgment, refining objectives for course context, learner level, and instructional intent. The final decisions and submissions stay with the user.

Try ObjEx → Opens in Google Gemini

More of My Work

Art and educational games

AI Art Codebook

A growing library of 121 AI art recipes across 16 chapters. Copy a prompt, paste it into your image tool, and turn a photo or an idea into polished art in seconds. Educators reach for the Healthcare Education chapter for on-brand visuals for slides, presentations, and LMS modules, alongside chapters for pets, food, travel, fine-art masters, animation, and more.

Free to use · copy-and-paste prompts · works with ChatGPT and other image tools · dark mode + printable QR

Open the Codebook

Educational Games

Self-study games for graduate nursing education. Each is built on a module’s learning objectives and a mastery design: miss an item, get a hint, and try again until it clicks. Ungraded, no logins, no data collected: Jeopardy, sorting challenges, scenario decisions, framework Venns, and more.

Fellow educators: play them, and feel free to adapt the format for your own courses, with credit (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Play the games