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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. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. Saucier, Ph.D.

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How to Make Online Learning More Engaging and Effective for Students

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Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. For example, how would they use a science concept to solve a problem at home? Peer Review and Group Projects: Online learning isn’t only about solo work. Or how might a math formula apply to planning a trip or building something?

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How Improving Student Feedback and Teaching Data Science Restored Our Classroom Culture

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Little did I know that by 2019 I would find a way to apply the data science strategies I learned as a geologist to bring joy and engagement back to my classroom. This Class is Unfair The pivotal class I was teaching at the time was a physical science course, consisting of three sections of 15 to 17 eighth graders.

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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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Five Ways to Make Peer Feedback Effective In Your Classroom

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Three years ago I was teaching a graduate computer science course with 20 students. When students weren’t solving assignments or giving presentations, I was able to spend my time interacting with them one-on-one. That’s 150 students = 10 assignments in 13 weeks = 5 pages per assignment). Advice for effective peer review.

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

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Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. But getting to those careers means surviving the academic journey.

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A Growing (But Controversial) Idea in Open-Access Textbooks: Let Students Help Write Them

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The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. It was 2007, and Larsen was teaching a physical chemistry for life sciences course at the University of California at Davis. I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. The professor felt like an accomplice.