About Me
I’m Alym Amlani, CPA, CA, an award-winning business professor who turns complexity into clarity by blending cognitive science, storytelling, and technology.
For 15 years, I’ve taught accounting, information systems, and data analytics at the UBC Sauder School of Business, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and Langara College. I design learning experiences that spark curiosity, sustain attention, and make complex subjects engaging and memorable.
My approach has been recognized with KPU’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2025) and “Best of the Teaching Professor Conference” honors (2020 and 2024).
I’ve written four books, including ChatGPT Ate My Homework: What Educators Need to Know About Generative AI (Canadian, U.S., and Brazilian editions), as well as Information Systems (Kendall Hunt) and Presenting and Modeling Business Data.
My perspective draws on diverse experiences: the analytical precision of a CPA at Deloitte, strategic consulting for the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee, and research as a former professional magician exploring the Science of Magic, how attention, perception, and memory shape learning.
Today I bring these backgrounds together to help educators navigate AI in the classroom, turning cognitive science into practical, field-tested teaching strategies.
My talks, workshops, and courses blend data, humor, and insight to help teachers think differently and teach more effectively with technology and purpose.
Where I Teach
UBC Sauder School of Business
Instructor in Accounting and Information Systems
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Faculty member. Recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award
Langara College
Instructor in Business, Data, and Analytics
What I Offer
Interactive faculty workshops and keynote sessions that help educators redesign assessments, strengthen academic integrity, and teach confidently with generative AI.
Each program is classroom tested, evidence based, and tailored to your institution’s goals, giving faculty practical strategies to integrate AI into teaching and learning.
Talks & Training
Discover books that turn research into strategies you can use this term.
ChatGPT Ate My Homework helps educators redesign assessments, set AI policies, and teach confidently with generative AI, available in Canadian, U.S., and Brazilian editions.
Information Systems gives a practical view of how data, platforms, and business processes fit together. Presenting and Modeling Business Data shows how to turn raw data into clear stories and better decisions.
Books
Jumpstart your AI teaching practice with free resources, checklists, and templates created for real classrooms.
From the 3Ms framework for fair academic decisions to the AI detection checklist and Bloom and SOLO prompt guides.
These tools help educators build AI resilient assessments and clear classroom policies.
Teaching Tools
My work in the news
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KPU Distinguished Teaching Award
KPU’s Distinguished Teaching Award highlights data-driven accounting instruction that integrates technology, analytics, and performance skills to make complex concepts memorable and practical.
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Age-old Magic Tricks Can Provide Clues For Modern Science
UBC and Durham analyze misdirection, illusion, and forcing to show how attention and expectation shape perception, with applications in interfaces, games, and training.
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Magic Tricks Reveal Inner Workings of the Brain
Research from Durham University and UBC shows how misdirection and forcing expose the mechanics of attention and expectation in human perception.
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KPU instructor pens new AI playbook for educators
An educator-focused guide to generative AI with practical prompt techniques, the 3Ms academic-integrity decision tree, and an AI-use checklist for teaching and assessment.
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2 KPU instructors receive Distinguished Teaching Awards
Two KPU instructors were recognized for student-centred innovation, engaging chemistry pedagogy, and an edutainment approach that blends storytelling, magic, and modern teaching technologies.
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Pulling a rabbit out of your brain
Magicians’ techniques, misdirection, illusion, and forcing, help psychologists study attention, perception, and choice, revealing how gaze and expectations make us miss the obvious.
