Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Meanwhile, research is also being conducted today to understand how chatbots can be used as teaching assistants. In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I

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Teaching Instructors Teaching Assistants Counselling 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

McGraw-Hill and Pearon emphasized that instructors retain the freedom to decide whether to assign bundled materials to students in their classes, and those students can then choose whether to opt out. Pearson has typically seen opt-out rates below 5 percent, according to Osborne.

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Textbooks Accessibility Confidentiality Instructors 160

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

One document they obtained outlines a set of possible services Academic Partnerships provides that includes “utilize virtual teaching assistance,” and also talks about details including course lengths and caps on enrollment. AP does not provide any teaching assistance nor oversight of it,” she added.

Teaching Assistants 117

Teaching Assistants Instructors Coaching Counselling 117

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

One thing we know for sure is that AI is not going away and will continue to evolve and change the landscape of teaching and learning. Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2023

Online teaching has become more popular and accessible for students. As such, more instructors are teaching online courses. In-person classes often have this built into the first week of classes and instructors and professors share information about themselves. Why did you take this course? What do you do for fun?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. In math, people can be hesitant to get help, says Nick Hershman, a teacher on special assignment who’s based in Beaverton, near the Portland metro area in Oregon.

Math 211

Math Motivation Writing Intelligence 211

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

One thing we know for sure is that AI is not going away and will continue to evolve and change the landscape of teaching and learning. Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

His teaching assistants have engaged with students in the class from places such as Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, Samoa and Vietnam. Some approaches I observe Wesch using in ANTH 101 are: Centering the class around 10 big ideas and linking the assignments around those same ideas.

Learning 163

Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Second, the tool is not designed to fully-automate grading, meaning instructors aren’t out of the process completely.

Grades 92

Grades Exams Instructors Feedback 92

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Importantly, building classes that contain these elements for both students and instructors can lead to benefits for all. Below, I outline details about the five components and ideas for both students and instructors. In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment.

Course Design 105

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

For instructors who want to adopt it, he provides a password to a library of materials, and even plans to add the slides he uses for the in-person version of the course. And for students, Wesch organized the course not as a series of traditional assignments, but as a set of 10 challenges that introduce basic concepts of anthropology.

Textbooks 164

Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 164

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Importantly, building classes that contain these elements for both students and instructors can lead to benefits for all. Below, I outline details about the five components and ideas for both students and instructors. In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment.

Course Design 94

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 94

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Students will be able to ask Watson open-ended questions related to their course content, and the intelligent tutoring system will also provide instructors with insights about how well students are learning and where they might need extra help. FROM JEOPARDY TO TUTORING: Pearson is adding IBM’s Watson as a tutor to its online college courses.

Instructors 157

Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 157

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated?

Teaching 118

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 118

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A teacher presents a concept, offers examples, assigns homework, and then reviews the assignments once submitted. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment. For instance, consider the traditional classroom scenario.

Intelligence 122

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

Teaching 91

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

These stories also show that innovative teaching was top of mind this past year, from shaking up the way instructors teach online, to talking about race in the classroom, to experimenting with augmented and virtual reality. Of course, even our favorite stories don’t end up in front of the most readers. Are You Still There?

Education 137

Education Textbooks Attention Teaching Assistants 137

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A teacher presents a concept, offers examples, assigns homework, and then reviews the assignments once submitted. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment. For instance, consider the traditional classroom scenario.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 111

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Taken together, open access admission policies and challenges to student engagement in the community college context present a unique opportunity for utilizing student workers as learning assistants. While the other instructor mostly focused on breaking the subject up in a simplified way. Education Sciences, 8 (4), 168. Jakopovic, P.,Rech,

Learning 98

Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

Different instructors have disparate expectations when it comes to completing these reports. How well students know how to complete a lab report relies heavily on the feedback that previous instructors were willing to give to help students improve.

Laboratory 52

Laboratory Instructors Feedback Writing 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”). As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams.

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2020

As this COVID-disrupted semester comes to a close, we wanted to know how well the emergency online teaching experiment went at colleges, and what it felt like from instructors’ point of view. Meanwhile, teaching assistants led the weekly group sessions via Zoom, at the same time each week. Was it as good?

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Lecturing History Teaching Assistants Learning 178

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

By creating a learning environment tailored to various majors, addressing barriers, and demonstrating real-world applications, instructors can make the classroom “YOUnique.” This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator.

Interdisciplinary 64

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 64

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

By creating a learning environment tailored to various majors, addressing barriers, and demonstrating real-world applications, instructors can make the classroom “YOUnique.” This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator.

Interdisciplinary 62

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 62

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

They logged into a learning management system, which displays personal profile information, homework assignments and professor office hours. Other tools, like breakout rooms and an interactive white board that everyone can write on, are designed to decrease the sense of distance among students, the instructor said.

Instructors 132

Instructors Students Participation Distance Learning 132

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Students who want proof of completion and access to all of the resources of the course—including feedback from teaching assistants—must buy a Coursera membership that costs $49 per month. Kian Katanforoosh is the co-creator for the deep learning courses and is listed as the Head Teaching Assistant for all of them. “We

Teaching 132

Teaching Laboratory Textbooks Intelligence 132