Assignments Culture Lecturing 
Faculty Focus
JULY 15, 2025
A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. These actionable, collaborative strategies help educators navigate their role as facilitators, guiding and responding rather than lecturing and directing. Create tasks that are complex enough to require collaboration (e.g.,
Faculty Focus
JULY 15, 2025
A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. These actionable, collaborative strategies help educators navigate their role as facilitators, guiding and responding rather than lecturing and directing. Create tasks that are complex enough to require collaboration (e.g.,
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Faculty Focus
MAY 18, 2025
It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework.
Faculty Focus
JULY 20, 2025
Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! That means that as a working learner, your burden will feel lighter because things you are experiencing at work can be used as assignments for class. Welcome to psychology. How does that work? Let’s dive in.
Cal Matters
JUNE 26, 2025
Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.
Faculty Focus
JULY 10, 2025
And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. I also let students revise one major assignment. Often, it’s a preparedness gap. The ZIP Code Effect.”
Faculty Focus
JULY 10, 2025
And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. I also let students revise one major assignment. Often, it’s a preparedness gap. The ZIP Code Effect.”
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