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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Schoeder, 2024).

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Schoeder, 2024).

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‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video

Edsurge

Though 97 percent of education professionals in Kaltura’s State of Video in Education annual report say that video is “ essential to students’ academic experiences ,” when it comes to educational video practices, many instructors are still pressing play. Introductory Paratext Let’s consider what might ease students into video-based learning.

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Teaching Goal-Writing to All Students

Faculty Focus

Since the act of goal-writing necessitates an overall understanding of the course and its assignments, along with an analysis of their own strengths and weaknesses, students have to take an active part in their learning from the beginning of the course. The student who was expecting me “to teach him a lot” missed the first lesson.

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Feedback as a Dialogue 

Faculty Focus

As a bit of a too-long-didn’t-read (TLDR), I worked as a K-12 educator, an instructional developer, and a post-secondary instructor. How have my various experiences influenced my teaching philosophy, and which principles do I rely on to inform my interactions and collaboration with learners? online chat, discussion boards).

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Five Things to Do During the Grumpy Time of the Semester

Faculty Focus

This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. In line with this reasoning is our notion of “Trickle-Down Engagement,” which states that as our engagement increases as instructors, our students’ engagement will consequently increase, as will their learning in the course (Saucier et al.,

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Taking Grades (Stress) Out of Learning 

Faculty Focus

To accompany this teaching philosophy, I adopt ungrading 2 in all my courses. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback. Ask for questions to ensure every student understands how to complete the assignment.

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