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Top 5: Rebooting the Oral Exam Tops Most-Read List for October 2023

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Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Also making the list was an essay by a teacher launched into a leadership position at age 26 reflecting on a lack of support during the shift.

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eSchool Live@ INSTRUCTURECON 2023

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This new solution will harness this transformative moment by enabling educators with an integrated Khanmigo experience that supports human-driven, technology-enhanced essay feedback and grading, lesson planning and rubric creation. We’re using AI to show teachers not just the final essay, but how the student got there.

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Teaching Office Hour: How Can Profs Support Students Who Come In With Poor Writing Skills?

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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.”

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles.

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Exam Blueprints: A Student-centric Approach to Assessment 

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They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. The need for exam blueprints In professional veterinary anatomy courses, Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) drive the course structure and assessment strategies. His research focuses on anatomy education, eye-tracking technology, and active learning.

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Course Design as a Gateway to Student Well-being 

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In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching. Making learning visible We are likely familiar with how regular, low-stakes assessments correlate with improved academic outcomes (Crede & Sotola, 2021). But not just any feedback.

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Exam Blueprints: A Student-centric Approach to Assessment 

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They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. The need for exam blueprints In professional veterinary anatomy courses, Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) drive the course structure and assessment strategies. His research focuses on anatomy education, eye-tracking technology, and active learning.

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