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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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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

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Adding small activities for engagement. In addition to mid-semester check-in techniques, I try to incorporate at least one low stake active learning strategy instead of direct teaching. Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

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

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Encouraging Active Learning : One recent book focuses on making sure writing assignments are done in way that promotes active learning, where students learn by doing rather than passively receiving information. He provides an overview of the distinct goals and writing products within various areas of study.

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

Faculty Focus

Adding small activities for engagement. In addition to mid-semester check-in techniques, I try to incorporate at least one low stake active learning strategy instead of direct teaching. Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College.

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Designing College Curricula for Student Success

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Support is sometimes available from veteran professors, faculty development offices and workshops or training to assist professors in the challenging work of course and curriculum development and implementation. Professors can support the development of interest with characteristics of course design and delivery (Durik, 2003).

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Why Students Living on Campus Take Online Courses

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In terms of learning, they’re not [missing out]. This comes back to 20 years of faculty development where basically we know that, if a professor teaches an online course, they have to go through 80 hours of training to learn to teach online. What we know is active and collaborative learning works.

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