eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. ” I recognized that their intimidation did not come from the technology itself, but rather from a lack of confidence.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 277

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like.

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 97

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some believe it will cripple the education system and replace human workers ; others denounce ChatGPT as a free essay-writing and test-taking tool that makes it laughably easy to cheat on assignments, while the validity of responses generated by ChatGPT has also been called into question.

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 335

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. That’s going to be a real time saver for faculty,” he predicts.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

I think the phenomena of the infographic syllabus has been an effort by many teachers to make that document more accessible, more real,” she explains. “We We can solve a lot of problems as educators if we can just get people to read the syllabus upfront.”. We're being very intentional about using it in the classroom," she adds.

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Syllabus Teachers Course Outline English 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I like being able to see when assignments are due, as it helps me recognize the need to block off time in my calendar for grading. I grew tired of uploading the syllabus as a file within our LMS, only to need to upload a new version every single semester. I would name it something like syllabus-BUSN114.pdf syllabus-BUSN114.pdf)

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Syllabus Mobile Devices Learning Assignments 136

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But Chatterjee, an international student from India, did not feel confident about the assignment, and thought it was Western-centric and focused on physical powers associated with attractive males. Based on that feedback, the professor, Julia Parra, says she changed the assignment to make it broader, and more inclusive.

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Culture Teaching Syllabus English 154

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world. For example, Bruff teaches a statistics course where he uses an infographics assignment that he adapted from Sidneyeve Matrix, an associate professor at Queen’s University, in Canada. “In As scholars, we probably should do something like that. “It

Teaching Portfolio 167

Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Make it Easy for Students to Interact It can be a delicate balance to try to not overwhelm students by the quantity of educational technology we use in a class, while still keeping things interesting through the element of surprise. This past semester, each student submitted reading notes as an assignment in the LMS.

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Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 163

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

But because this was 1980, and the technologies that could be used to cheat were more advanced than the technology available to detect cheating, there was no definitive proof. Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Duplicate or misplaced assignment pages create confusion (and potentially issues with the gradebook). consider how it might be used as a tool for enhancing student learning and engagement. across the course.

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Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

The AI agents will also be fed information from the course syllabi and turn in assignments. Brott says he has experimented with ChatGPT on a few assignments for classes. Then AI could be used to sort, organize and synthesize all that data in ways that would have been too difficult to do using previous technologies. “If

Intelligence 212

Intelligence Syllabus Feedback Assignments 212

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Organization and structure  Students appreciate courses where assignments and course materials are organized and structured. Avoid confusing instructions.

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Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I recall one student who would wait until the night of the assignment deadline to dive into their schoolwork. All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. Don’t wait for an assignment notification to get started.

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Online Learning Instructors Coaching Mobile Devices 189

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Argos is calling its courseware platform and marketplace Sojourner, and the goal is to make it a hub for professors and students to create, assign and use digital course materials, in a way that allows for rich analytics for professors, showing them how their students are using materials.

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Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 179

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Later in my career, as I moved districts and technology became more accessible, I had to contend with the sly texting in their laps, though they’d pretend to be on task. My syllabus had a no-technology policy and it wasn’t perfect, but it helped. I can cut a lot of slack, extend deadlines or excuse assignments.

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Teachers Syllabus Schools Students 213

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Since he has been forced to teach online during COVID, to students who are struggling with job losses and disruptions, he has realized that most students want to learn, even if they may not meet the strict requirements on the syllabus. “I

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Exams Syllabus Lecturing Testing 181

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

It turns out that colleges with giant online enrollments, some topping 100,000 students, run remote classrooms very differently from the way my virtual classes operated at Stevens Institute of Technology and NYU. 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.

Teaching 177

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 177

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.

Syllabus 124

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Duplicate or misplaced assignment pages create confusion (and potentially issues with the gradebook). consider how it might be used as a tool for enhancing student learning and engagement. across the course.

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Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Organization and structure  Students appreciate courses where assignments and course materials are organized and structured. Avoid confusing instructions.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Whether it’s whipping up dazzling PowerPoint slides, rewording a syllabus, or designing a new and exciting lesson, AI has you covered. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. Assessment and Evaluation Tools Rubric Generator : Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

But now that so many students are taking courses remotely, in improvised environments that may not be especially conducive to learning, it may take some extra effort to redesign instruction, assignments and assessments to address everyone’s needs. Start with your syllabus, make your syllabus accessible and then do one document per week.

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Students cheating on assignments is hardly a new or surprising problem. In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments.

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Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 146

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

have signed petitions calling on their colleges to stop using automated proctoring tools, meaning that the technology has become arguably the most controversial tool of the pandemic at colleges. There are plenty of things students complain about, but no other educational technology has drawn as much organized protest in recent months.

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

As a long-time music teacher and instructional technology coach, modeling has been key to my work for over a decade. I am a faculty member at Loyola University Maryland in the Educational Technology Program for the School of Education. Our students are current K-12 educators who have a passion for technology.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

Students put away their technology and read for four hours. It’s a rediscovery of uninterrupted reading,” Peña-Guzman said last Friday while pulling up slides about the assigned readings. Technology is allowed from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m., His answer is simply class participation, plus in-class and take-home writing assignments.

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Reading Teaching Lecturing Syllabus 163

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

Aside from a bare-bones syllabus, the professor never showed up. Most of our grade was supposed to come from a single class project, but no assignment instructions were ever posted. But what about this assignment that was worth so much of our grade? I emailed the professor and waited…and waited…and waited—silence.

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Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 131

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. How do they feel in your class?

Teaching 122

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Although technological advancements have provided faculty tools for helping accommodate students with disabilities, there are a few strategies faculty could find useful when designing their courses. Faculty should consider implementing these strategies during the design phase of their curriculum and syllabus. Cold or random call.

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Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 144

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Whether it’s whipping up dazzling PowerPoint slides, rewording a syllabus, or designing a new and exciting lesson, AI has you covered. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. Assessment and Evaluation Tools Rubric Generator : Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

Putting that concept partially into practice is assistant professor João Sedoc, who asks students to converse with a customized chatbot as a way to get feedback about his courses in technology, operations and statistics at the New York University Stern School of Business. Students may ask that assignments be due at 10 p.m.

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Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 196

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Gaggle Speaks

APRIL 20, 2015

The use of technology in the classroom, particularly a Learning Management System (LMS ), can greatly reduce the time required to plan, develop and implement differentiated instruction inside and outside of the classroom. By using your LMS, you can assign group spaces for students, which allow them to work together from anywhere.

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Syllabus Assignments Learning Styles Group work 104

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Become acquainted with your librarian If you have not yet done so, become acquainted with the librarian assigned to your discipline. Include in the conversation a copy of a draft syllabus, required assignments, and any concerns you have about academic integrity. Be open to a discussion of the course you teach or plan to teach.

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Syllabus Instructors Learning Assignments 98