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What If Students Are the Biggest Barrier to Innovation?

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Marilyn Morgan Dr. Marilyn Morgan, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, echoed sentiments in the report saying that students, particularly those in her department, are reluctant to engage with education technology and find personalized learning techniques, such as group and self-directed learning, frustrating.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. In my assignment description I have a little footnote that gives her credit,” he says. “As

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The Last Class Session: How to Make It Count

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Although institutions have all moved toward online, official course evaluations, why not use this last class to get and give feedback of a different sort? Activity 1: Create a “stop, start, continue” structure that lists every assignment students completed during the semester. The class has a history; things have happened.

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The Last Class Session: How to Make It Count

Faculty Focus

Although institutions have all moved toward online, official course evaluations, why not use this last class to get and give feedback of a different sort? Activity 1: Create a “stop, start, continue” structure that lists every assignment students completed during the semester. The class has a history; things have happened.