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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

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As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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AEF Schools: Empowering Students with Individualized Learning, Social Growth, and Real-World Skills

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Maybe they forget to turn in assignments, have trouble organizing their thoughts, or feel overwhelmed by fast-paced lessons. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Instead of pressuring students with high-stakes exams, AEF focuses on mastery-based learning.

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Do Professors With a ‘Deficiency’ Mindset Prevent Community College Students From Earning Credit?

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Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. These days more four-year colleges are dropping their SAT and ACT requirements. It did not use demographic data. The algorithm worked.

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‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video

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What kind of introductory text, video or activity might lead everyone into the assigned video without overwhelming them? So it can be helpful for teachers to talk about what kind of viewing they expect for a given assignment—and whether it’s ok to skim, or even skip, parts of a video.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

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Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. Students must understand why the assignment is important, what is expected, and how the quality of their work will be judged.

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Employers Claim to Value Alternative Credentials. Do Their Practices Match Their Promises?

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And it widened further among HR professionals: 54 percent assigned high value to traditional degrees and just 15 percent assigned high value to alternative credentials. Putting Alternative Credentials to the Test Asking people about their beliefs doesn’t always yield insight about how they act.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

Faculty Focus

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. Students must understand why the assignment is important, what is expected, and how the quality of their work will be judged.

Syllabus 105