Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Technological hiccups are inevitable, so having a dedicated teaching assistant or tech support available during class can be invaluable in troubleshooting issues quickly, allowing the instructor to focus on teaching. Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.).

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Technological hiccups are inevitable, so having a dedicated teaching assistant or tech support available during class can be invaluable in troubleshooting issues quickly, allowing the instructor to focus on teaching. Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.).

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. If you try to achieve one goal, you end up doing worse for another goal. We want education to be accessible.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

EdSurge: Can you give us a little background on the history of the Dracula course? Stanley Stepanic: When I first came to UVA in 2005 to study for my master’s and my PhD, I was a teaching assistant to the course and was mentored by Professor Jan Perkowski. He later changed the name of the course to Dracula.

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