Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It’s much easier to use text with a few pictures tossed in and leave the artistry for the art teacher. They can even be used for gift certificates (such as “skip a homework” or “skip an assignment”). Quickly create certificates by editing the text and image in a Canva template. Click to view slideshow.

Syllabus 170

Syllabus Knowledge Achievement Math 170

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

It’s a rediscovery of uninterrupted reading,” Peña-Guzman said last Friday while pulling up slides about the assigned readings. Among the rules were vows to to detach from their electronics, spend no more than $50 per week, practice celibacy and only speak to an assigned partner in class. Technology is allowed from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m.,

Reading 163

Reading Teaching Lecturing Syllabus 163

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JULY 7, 2022

Year by year, these adults have gathered threads of wisdom, which the university now invites them to weave into the great tapestry of the liberal arts. The syllabus is structured to inspire confidence and courage. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark The professor explains the next assignment for the course.

Students 176

Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 176

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2023

Despite these harrowing times, I often looked to the arts—TV, movies, and videos—for collective understanding and joy in difficult times. Specifically, I changed my late assignment policy to reflect students’ autonomy. If the assignment did not align, I deleted it. One of those respites was a new show called Ted Lasso.

Teaching 119

Teaching Assignments Syllabus Counselling 119

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Alder College, in a nutshell, would be a two-year liberal arts commuter college and students would graduate with an associate’s degree. Students always take four courses, and the faculty have designed the assignments and the courses around themes. What's the elevator pitch for the model? The recruitment would be local.

Education 158

Education Syllabus Faculty Development Communication 158

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Encourage your students to introduce themselves via written text, video, audio recording, or art; let them choose whichever media is most comfortable for them. Be Present Being present in your online course goes beyond delivering the curriculum and providing assignment feedback. be ready to provide support as appropriate.

Instructors 115

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

For instance, at the bare minimum, we expect our students to read our course syllabus, listen to our lectures, engage with us and their peers, and complete and submit all assignments on time. I would love for you to provide feedback on my graded assignments.” “I We expect much from our students each semester.

Instructors 107

Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 107

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

For instance, at the bare minimum, we expect our students to read our course syllabus, listen to our lectures, engage with us and their peers, and complete and submit all assignments on time. I would love for you to provide feedback on my graded assignments.” “I We expect much from our students each semester.

Instructors 105

Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Encourage your students to introduce themselves via written text, video, audio recording, or art; let them choose whichever media is most comfortable for them. Be Present Being present in your online course goes beyond delivering the curriculum and providing assignment feedback. be ready to provide support as appropriate.

Instructors 105

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s much easier to use text with a few pictures tossed in and leave the artistry for the art teacher. They can even be used for gift certificates (such as “skip a homework” or “skip an assignment”). Quickly create certificates by editing the text and image in a Canva template. Click to view slideshow.

Knowledge 122

Knowledge Syllabus History Achievement 122

Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

When a history major and a religious studies major read the same homework assignment, they bring different perspectives to the reading, and therefore illuminate the subsequent class discussions that benefit from heterogeneous viewpoints. All 70 students chose a different focus that they felt a strong, personal connection to.

Critical Thinking 78

Critical Thinking Interdisciplinary Syllabus History 78

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Since professors typically require use of these tools to participate in class, students complain that they are essentially being charged to turn in their assignments. Because OpenStax doesn’t pay big bucks for illustrations, some faculty don’t think the art is good enough to compete with that in commercial textbooks, Palmiotto says.

Textbooks 118

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 118

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

I think the arts and humanities gives us a site for doing all of those things.” So in May 2020, she posted an offer to teach a free, six-week seminar about art and illness for a few dozen people, drawing on works by Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison and Emily Dickinson, among others. So Wellmon threw out his syllabus.

Art 218

Art Instructors Study Reading 218

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. The syllabus is great way to show your positive and encouraging bedside manner to the class.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. The syllabus is great way to show your positive and encouraging bedside manner to the class.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As opposed to, say, teaching students how to live “ the good life ,” or how to discern meaning through art and literature , or how to critique the very system that demands human productivity in exchange for pay in the first place. Or at least make more evident which skills their lectures, assignments and projects impart.

Skills 190

Skills Intelligence Syllabus Languages 190

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

Syllabus 126

Syllabus Lecturing Assignments Course Design 126

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The novel is set at a fictional liberal arts college in the midwest, Payne University, where the English department is falling apart, both literally and in spirit. The joke is like, I can't get them to read the syllabus. I've never met one of them. How could I possibly get them to read Marx or something like that?

English 120

English Writing Culture Syllabus 120

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. See below for details on Boyer’s assignments.)

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Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 146