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

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In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It As scholars, we probably should do something like that. “For

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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

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Organization and structure  Students appreciate courses where assignments and course materials are organized and structured. Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  Avoid confusing instructions.

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How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research

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Some people just switch out a written assignment for an audio assignment. Other people do sort of mini-lectures as podcasts and give them to their students. And for that to be counted as such, people are also going to want to subject it to the rigor of different forms of peer review. And I've done this myself.

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How U of Michigan Built Automated Essay-Scoring Software to Fill ‘Feedback Gap’ for Student Writing

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The M-Write program started in 2015 as a way to give more writing feedback to students by enlisting other students to serve as peer mentors to help with revisions. Senior lecturer Brenda Gunderson teaches a statistics course that will be first to adopt the automated element of M-Write.

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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

Faculty Focus

Organization and structure  Students appreciate courses where assignments and course materials are organized and structured. Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  Avoid confusing instructions.

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