Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

When Melissa Hardy took over a biology laboratory class at Salt Lake Community College, she inherited a commercial lab manual that left much to be desired. What I’ve long said about OER is, it really makes the instructor think differently about their teaching and their courses,” Greenlaw says. “It It was out of date.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. Small class sizes mean instructors can give individuals assignments on topics relevant to their personal interests. That's the Cadillac version," she says.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Students are often perfectly comfortable with these technologies and they’re really happy to go out and do this assignment. Then they assign the challenge to personal contacts, neighbors, coworkers, or classmates. There are two takeaways from this assignment: one, it’s hard to get people to change. It creates a sense of caring.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

District Superintendent, Ulster BOCES CTE and career readiness As an engineering teacher who runs a hands-on laboratory class, I like to start the year off by exposing my students to all the industry equipment and industry-certified credentials that they will have access to throughout the year. — Jonah M. Schenker, Ed.D.,

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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