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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

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Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

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Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

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professors enjoy academic freedom to select their own course materials, it can take a lot of personal persuasion to convince each to try teaching a new text. 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.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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In a paper Koedinger co-published in Science , he found that as instructors consider their course design and teaching options during a typical college course, they’re picking from trillions of possibilities. That sentiment is backed by learning-science research in a concept called the “doer effect.”

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This Standing-Room-Only Class Features Music Videos, a Gaming App and. Breathalyzers

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Among a slew of teaching awards, Garg has received UCLA’s Eby Award for the Art of Teaching and was named the 2015 California Professor of the Year. Let Professor Neil Garg Inspire Your Course Design. Explore Garg’s organic chemistry course file with links to practice problems, quizzes, and study guides.

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?The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers

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I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers.

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How One Master Educator Uses Visuals and Tech to Make Dracula a Must-Take Course

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The course is one of the school’s most popular, with a waitlist that once swelled to 1600; it was included in a roundup of “ Top 10 Must Take Classes at UVA.” An associate professor in UVA’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures , Stepanic earned the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Award in 2012.

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