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Latest Enhancements to Discovery Education Services Drive Deeper Student Engagement 

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Pivot Interactives makes teaching science with active learning and scientific phenomena engaging and easy with 10,000 authentic, video-based science interactives crafted by Pivot’s expert curriculum team and teacher community. Randomized questions.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. Active learning strategies help students take risks and engage deeply with material in a low-pressure environment. What to avoid: Grading active learning activities as if they were summative assessments is inappropriate.

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Latest AI Announcements Mean Another Big Adjustment for Educators

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Educators at both schools and colleges were already struggling to keep up with ChatGPT and other AI tools during this academic year, but a fresh round of announcements last month by major AI companies may require even greater adjustments by educators to preserve academic integrity and to accurately assess student learning, teaching experts say.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. Active learning strategies help students take risks and engage deeply with material in a low-pressure environment. What to avoid: Grading active learning activities as if they were summative assessments is inappropriate.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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Overreliance on AI risks undermining critical thinking; Pritts (2023) warns that tools generating papers may erode analytical skills, echoing SoTL calls for active learning (Davidson, 2021). 2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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Overreliance on AI risks undermining critical thinking; Pritts (2023) warns that tools generating papers may erode analytical skills, echoing SoTL calls for active learning (Davidson, 2021). 2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity.

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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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Flipped Learning Can Be a Key to Transforming Teaching and Learning Post-Pandemic. A math professor makes the case for using class time for active learning. How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education. Top 10 Countdown 10. By Robert Talbert. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. By Jeffrey R.

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