Assignments Syllabus Teaching Methods 
Faculty Focus
JUNE 15, 2025
What I Do Now (and What I Don’t) Let me make it clear—I still teach frameworks. I still assign readings. Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic. But I don’t start there anymore.
Faculty Focus
JUNE 15, 2025
What I Do Now (and What I Don’t) Let me make it clear—I still teach frameworks. I still assign readings. Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic. But I don’t start there anymore.
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Edsurge
JUNE 6, 2024
Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.
Edsurge
MARCH 2, 2023
The institution was built with online in mind, and focuses on a so-called competency-based teaching method, where students work at their own pace and get credit when they show they know the material. On average, instructors are assigned 230 students at a time--a big change from the 20 or 30 I was used to at NYU and Stevens.
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 20, 2024
We may not have a storefront window to attract attention, but we do have something that students see before the start of the semester that can grab their attention, set the tone, and get them excited about entering the class…your syllabus! Exhibit 2: Thompson’s Barbie themed class syllabus (Spring 2024). Let Them Play! Stay Playful!
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 20, 2024
We may not have a storefront window to attract attention, but we do have something that students see before the start of the semester that can grab their attention, set the tone, and get them excited about entering the class…your syllabus! Exhibit 2: Thompson’s Barbie themed class syllabus (Spring 2024). Let Them Play! Stay Playful!
Edsurge
APRIL 27, 2018
This article is part of a series on innovative teaching methods in higher education. But because she is legally blind, she had an added challenge of not being able to see the diagrams and notes projected in the lecture hall or assigned for homework. Check back for more stories in the coming weeks.
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