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Bridging the Gap: Active Learning Strategies for Traditional and Online Classrooms

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That’s when it hit medespite years of teaching experience, I’m still searching for ways to spark the same level of engagement whether I’m interacting with students face-to-face or through carefully designed asynchronous activities. Yet simply abandoning these proven engagement strategies isn’t the answer.

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Make Your Teaching the Cynosure of Attention 

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Teaching is regarded as a noble profession. The amalgamation of all these traits is what makes our teaching interesting. Let’s explore some of these methods to help engage students in our teaching: Pose an interesting question. This type of technique hardly wavers their attention away from the teaching.

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Make Your Teaching the Cynosure of Attention 

Faculty Focus

Teaching is regarded as a noble profession. The amalgamation of all these traits is what makes our teaching interesting. Let’s explore some of these methods to help engage students in our teaching: Pose an interesting question. This type of technique hardly wavers their attention away from the teaching.

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Bridging the Gap: Active Learning Strategies for Traditional and Online Classrooms

Faculty Focus

That’s when it hit medespite years of teaching experience, I’m still searching for ways to spark the same level of engagement whether I’m interacting with students face-to-face or through carefully designed asynchronous activities. Yet simply abandoning these proven engagement strategies isn’t the answer.

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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

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When I started as an adjunct faculty member, I had no teaching experience. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Co-create classroom norms with your students. Encourage student participation.

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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

Faculty Focus

When I started as an adjunct faculty member, I had no teaching experience. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Co-create classroom norms with your students. Encourage student participation.

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Reducing AI Anxiety Starts by Talking with Students 

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Will it spell the end of countless jobs or create new horizons for teaching, research, and meaningful work? That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. Will AI save or enslave us?