Alym Amlani

Alym Amlani

Educator. Magician.
Disruptor.

I'm a professional magician turned CPA turned award-winning business professor. I teach at the UBC Sauder School of Business and the KPU Melville School of Business. I write books about AI in education and data analytics, build tools that educators use, and give talks that change how people think about teaching.

Magic inspires wonder and wonder inspires curiosity. When students are curious, they are motivated to learn. That's the philosophy behind everything I teach, build, and create.

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Business Analytics: From Data to Decision

Co-authored with Paul Davis and published by Routledge. A step-by-step framework for evaluating, visualizing, and analyzing business data, with hands-on chapters on Excel, Solver, and Power BI, and downloadable datasets, templates, and solutions. Pre-order now on Indigo; available December 7, 2026.

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Learn to build with AI

For faculty

Vibe Coding for Educators

Describe the teaching tool your course needs and let AI build it. No coding background required; the course is self-paced and written for educators, not engineers. Part 1 is free, takes one sitting, and ends with your app published online.

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For students · Free

VibeLab

Got an idea you keep talking about? VibeLab turns it into a real website in seven free missions. You plan it, prototype it in your browser, and put it online, then keep improving it with an AI coding agent. No experience needed.

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In the classroom now

A lab, a game, and a disclosure tool for your next class.

Interactive lab

LEGO Learning Lab

Machine learning, taught with LEGO. In this interactive workbook for ACCT 4500, students complete the lab exercises, record their data, and export a finished PDF. Work auto-saves in the browser.

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Classroom game

Ctrl Alt Defeat

A security controls game for classrooms. Students run a small company, buy preventive, detective, and corrective controls each month, then see what every control saved when something goes wrong.

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For instructors & students

AIDisclose

Set clear AI expectations for your course and give students a way to reflect on how they used AI. Built on the disclosure framework from ChatGPT Ate My Homework. No student accounts, no student disclosures stored.

Set your AI policy

What I teach

AI in education. Data analytics and Excel.

AI in education

AI disclosure, academic integrity, and assessment redesign

Practical frameworks from ChatGPT Ate My Homework, tested in real classrooms, for teaching when AI can complete nearly any assignment.

The 3Ds Dialog · Declare · Design
Makes AI disclosure proactive: set clear expectations for AI use, and give students a way to declare how they used it.
The 3Ms Misunderstanding · Misuse · Misconduct
For reviewing academic-integrity concerns: tell a misunderstanding from misuse or misconduct before you respond.
ChatGPT Ate My Homework Book
The practical guide for teaching when AI can complete any assignment. Canadian, U.S., and Brazilian editions.
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Data analytics and Excel

Data analytics, Excel, and data visualization

Turning business data into decisions you can defend: evaluating, visualizing, and analyzing it, then presenting what it says. Taught in my courses, in my next book, and in hands-on workshops.

Business Analytics: From Data to Decision Forthcoming
Co-authored with Paul Davis and published by Routledge, with chapters on Excel, Solver, and Power BI. Available December 7, 2026.
Excel for Accounting Students Free course
Twenty-eight free units, one function each, on the kind of ledger extract you get handed at work.
Data visualization and Excel workshops Talks
Data Visualization for Beginners, Making Data Speak, and Excel for Accountants: charts that fit the data, and Excel reports that are easier to audit and explain.
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For educators

If you teach and AI keeps changing the rules

I've spent the last year building the practical playbook: ChatGPT Ate My Homework. I have also built a disclosure platform used by institutions and simulations that make abstract concepts stick.

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ChatGPT Ate My Homework

Real frameworks for AI in your classroom, not hot takes. Canada, U.S., and Brazil.

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AIDisclose.app

Transparency and student disclosure without surveillance.

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Classroom Simulations

Active learning through games. Accounting, controls, cybersecurity.

For event organizers

If you're booking a speaker

I speak on AI in education, assessment redesign, data analytics and Excel, game-based learning, and engagement. Sessions range from 45-to-90-minute keynotes to half-day intensives. Every session is classroom-tested, hands-on, and informed by years of professional performance experience.

AI in education and academic integrity
Assessment redesign for the AI era
Vibe coding: building tools without code
OBS, overlays, and educator showmanship
Data analytics, Excel, and data visualization
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Talks

Sessions that change practice, not just opinions.

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ChatGPT Ate My Homework - Teaching in the Age of MePT

Students already use AI, but most syllabi weren't built for it.

Get a tested framework for evaluating AI use, copy-ready syllabus language, and discipline-specific examples you can implement immediately.

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Vibe Coding for Educators

Build teaching tools using AI-assisted development. No programming background required. Participants walk out with a working prototype they actually built during the session.

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Data Visualization for Beginners

Choose charts that fit the data, avoid common visual traps, and communicate insights effectively.

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As seen at

The Teaching Professor Conference

Best of Conference, 2020 & 2024

Canadian Academic Accounting Association

Annual Conference

Serious Play Conference

Games-based learning

Things I've built

Books, tools, simulations, and platforms.

Each one started because I needed it in my own classroom. Try them out!

ChatGPT Ate My Homework

The practical guide for teaching when AI can complete any assignment. Three editions across two countries.

AIDisclose.app

Policy clarity and student disclosure without surveillance.

Groupworks

GroupWorks gives instructors a structured workflow for group formation, shared agreements, and peer evaluation — and gives students a clearer path through the work. One place for the whole group project lifecycle.

Vibe Coding for Educators

A course that teaches educators to build tools with AI. No coding required.

VibeLab

A free course for students with an idea. Seven missions take it to a live website; AI writes the code and you make the decisions.

Excel for Accounting Students

Twenty-eight free units, one function each, on the kind of ledger extract you get handed at work. No sign-up, nothing to install.

LEGO Learning Lab

Machine learning, taught with LEGO. An interactive lab workbook that auto-saves and exports a finished PDF.

The Arcade

Playable educational games that teach everything from debits and credits to cybersecurity.

Ctrl Alt Defeat

A security controls game. Run a small company, buy controls each month, and see what each one saved.

NoGorilla

Chart clarity self-assessment. Find out whether your charts say what you think they say.

Competent

CFE study tracker for CPA candidates. Structured debriefs and analytics.
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KPU Melville School of Business

Distinguished Teaching Award, 2025

UBC DAP

Teaching Excellence Award

Teaching Professor Conference

Best of Conference, 2020 & 2024

Canadian Academic Accounting Association

Presenter

Let's work together.

Keynote, workshop, or something I haven't thought of yet.

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