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Supporting the Instructional Design Process: Stress-Testing Assignments with AI

Faculty Focus

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? Then, share the assignment prompt. And more importantly, should we?

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Supporting the Instructional Design Process: Stress-Testing Assignments with AI

Faculty Focus

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? Then, share the assignment prompt. And more importantly, should we?

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Class Size Matters: Understanding the Link Between Class Size and Student Achievement

eSchool News

The STAR project randomly assigned students to either small classes (13 to 17 students per teacher) or large classes (22 to 25 students per teacher). Perhaps one of the most famous studies to come to this conclusion was the Tennessee Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) project in the 1980s.

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination.

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These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

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It’s a good combination of community and equity and purposeful curriculum design,” Egan says. There are, of course, benefits to students’ pocketbooks when professors assign open course materials. “The faculty are identifying the gaps, and the hospital is providing insight on the gaps they’re seeing.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Students can be asked to assign different roles to different team members.

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How Do You Factor Social-emotional Wellbeing Into Your Personalized Learning Plans?

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It is for this very reason that SEL hasn’t traditionally played a prominent role in curriculum design. And its near-absence in the school models of yesterday underscores its importance in the effective implementation of personalized learning plans in tomorrow’s schools.

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