Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

John Warner’s forthcoming book, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities , addresses this question directly. Writing Across the Disciplines : Jason Ferguson summed up this approach best in a 2014 essay: “Every academic discipline requires writing of some kind and most of them require it frequently.”

Writing 154

Writing Skills Teaching Essay 154

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can answer questions, explain concepts, and engage in interactive dialogue, promoting active learning and deeper understanding. ChatGPT can serve as a virtual tutor, providing immediate and on-demand support to students. Write this at a college-level reading level, by a student who has a garden.

Communication 135

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

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). Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission.

Faculty Development 90

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 90

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

They have after all been in school for the last 13 years and they have become really good at taking quizzes and exams and writing essays with thesis statements. As professors, we should enforce due dates to give students the time to learn content in a meaningful and retrievable way.

Assignments 107

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 107

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

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). Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission.

Faculty Development 84

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 84

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The assignment created a bridge between academia and business (Rohm, 2019), and emphasized active learning by requiring students to develop a style guide (“Sprout Social”, 2024) and use GenAi tools such as ChatGPT, an AI tool owned by Open AI, to generate social media content for a real business.

Teaching 111

Teaching Ethics Assignments Students 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The assignment created a bridge between academia and business (Rohm, 2019), and emphasized active learning by requiring students to develop a style guide (“Sprout Social”, 2024) and use GenAi tools such as ChatGPT, an AI tool owned by Open AI, to generate social media content for a real business.

Teaching 109

Teaching Ethics Assignments Students 109

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Social s ciences : For courses like psychology or sociology, where essay-type questions are common, blueprints can provide a framework for the areas to be covered, helping students prepare more efficiently. His research focuses on anatomy education, eye-tracking technology, and active learning.

Exams 119

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 119

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

In a field study involving schools across the United States, teachers gave students the opportunity to revise an essay they’d written. Active Learning, Student Engagement, and Motivation: The Importance of Caring Behaviors in Teaching. Great instructors go a step further by asking more of their students. link] Zengaro, S.,

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

They have after all been in school for the last 13 years and they have become really good at taking quizzes and exams and writing essays with thesis statements. As professors, we should enforce due dates to give students the time to learn content in a meaningful and retrievable way.

Assignments 95

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 95

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can answer questions, explain concepts, and engage in interactive dialogue, promoting active learning and deeper understanding. ChatGPT can serve as a virtual tutor, providing immediate and on-demand support to students. Write this at a college-level reading level, by a student who has a garden.

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Social s ciences : For courses like psychology or sociology, where essay-type questions are common, blueprints can provide a framework for the areas to be covered, helping students prepare more efficiently. His research focuses on anatomy education, eye-tracking technology, and active learning.

Exams 111

Exams Fairness Instructors Teaching Methods 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

In a field study involving schools across the United States, teachers gave students the opportunity to revise an essay they’d written. Active Learning, Student Engagement, and Motivation: The Importance of Caring Behaviors in Teaching. Great instructors go a step further by asking more of their students. link] Zengaro, S.,

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2017

Those can be essays. I have personally seen, from my experience at Minerva, where every single one of my seminar-based classes is on a very souped-up, very, very cool active-learning platform online classroom. I have learned so much more on that platform than I ever did in a traditional classroom.

Lecturing 90

Lecturing Students Discussions Essay 90

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I took inspiration from the standard document-based question activity, or DBQ. In a DBQ, students are given an essay prompt and must use the given documents and their own knowledge to support their response. I still believed in the power of video to engage students, but that perhaps there was a way to tweak my process.

Active Learning 280

Active Learning Activities Feedback Learning 280

k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

Social learning via social media builds teamwork, accountability, and shared responsibility for outcomes. Turning Passive Scrolling into Active Learning One of the biggest concerns parents and teachers have is passive scrolling, endless swiping with little value. But educators are flipping the script.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Ethics Education Learning 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2024

Young fizkes / Shutterstock The introduction of ChatGPT has educators looking for alternatives to assigning essays. As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist By Jeffrey R. One idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. Can oral exams be delivered at the scale needed for today’s class sizes?

Exams 158

Exams Education Essay Lecturing 158

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education.

Education 161

Education Essay Academic Integrity Attention 161