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More Than a Million Syllabuses at Your Fingertips

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Open Syllabus Project (OSP), a research project organizing data gathered from over a million syllabuses. By looking at the texts that entire generations of college students read, researchers can tell the history of academia itself. Digital humanists create tools like OSP, in this case to research the history of teaching and learning.

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How a Database of 6 Million Syllabi Could Spawn a New Measure of Scholarly Impact

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What if you could map every book and article assigned in college courses around the world and see which authors are making the most impact? It’s called the Open Syllabus Project , and this week its leaders released a new version of their tool that analyzes assignment lists from more than six million syllabi. But version 2.0,

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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. A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world.

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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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Dropbox Paper or Google Docs : these mainstream collaborative word-processing tools let instructors invite students to collaborate on assignments or group work. This past semester, each student submitted reading notes as an assignment in the LMS. Trello : a virtual stack of index cards where students can add their ideas.

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How Mega-Universities Manage to Teach Hundreds of Thousands of Students

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Classes don’t start and end according to an academic calendar, but begin when a student clicks “start course” and gets assigned a faculty member. On average, instructors are assigned 230 students at a time--a big change from the 20 or 30 I was used to at NYU and Stevens. Southern New Hampshire’s course completion rate is 90 percent.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

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Differences in lived experiences, values, beliefs, histories, identities, and more will influence how individual students experience the learning environment (Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose, & Norman, 2023). 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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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

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As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.