Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

Ethics 110

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

Ethics 110

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 110

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

Instructors 110

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 110

Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2024

NPR has some of the most educational content available, so much so that I use a series of NPR stories about healthcare financing and reform in my medical ethics course. Get their attention Once you have decided to put your lesson into a story, you must come up with an opening hook. It’s a question that gets students thinking.

Teaching 122

Teaching Instructors Communication Ethics 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems. Comply with ethical guidelines: Ensure that your use of ChatGPT adheres to ethical guidelines and policies set by the platform or service provider.

Communication 135

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

Instructors 95

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 95

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

The mental health of students and educators drew attention this year in a big way, as schools and colleges continue to struggle as the global COVID-19 pandemic lingers on. For those in classrooms and for school leaders, the challenge is how to meet the many needs of educators during this time—social, emotional, intellectual and ethical.

Ethics 157

Ethics Instructors History Attention 157

Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2024

NPR has some of the most educational content available, so much so that I use a series of NPR stories about healthcare financing and reform in my medical ethics course. Get their attention Once you have decided to put your lesson into a story, you must come up with an opening hook. It’s a question that gets students thinking.

Teaching 111

Teaching Instructors Communication Ethics 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

Though social robots, like Saya, have been greeted with enthusiasm by students, researchers are taking a more critical stance regarding the ethics of introducing them as teachers. In fact, the students were more attentive and more excited to do activities with Saya because they knew she was a robot.

Ethics 87

Ethics Intelligence English Attention 87

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Virtual learning assistants, or mentors, will, with human overseers, autonomously support personalized development: Imagine personalized learning journeys powered by AI agents that bring relevant topics to your students’ attention, based on your interests. It also involves teaching them about privacy, digital footprints and online etiquette.

Gamification 360

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this specific context, education plays a significant role in shaping the minds of future generations and an instructor’s role is crucial in this development. As students mature, the values and ethics instilled by teachers will also mature, aiding in their overall development.

Instructors 119

Instructors Students Motivation Intelligence 119

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems. Comply with ethical guidelines: Ensure that your use of ChatGPT adheres to ethical guidelines and policies set by the platform or service provider.

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this specific context, education plays a significant role in shaping the minds of future generations and an instructor’s role is crucial in this development. As students mature, the values and ethics instilled by teachers will also mature, aiding in their overall development.

Instructors 114

Instructors Students Motivation Intelligence 114

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Anywhere from how our attention has changed with technology to the risk of wearables. I guess the question with these systems is, what's their relationship to better educating and keeping a process of lifelong learning alive for teachers and instructors? We should understand the ethical frameworks around those technologies.

Ethics 149

Ethics Study Essay Fairness 149

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Ethical concerns and considerations are of special importance in citizen science. Pay close attention to the prerequisites such as time requirements, travel, equipment, training period, and prior experience. Author bio Sophia is an online ESL/EFL instructor and a passionate Science educator.

Science 144

Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary 144

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. The other thing that people often say to me is, "Candace, you're just thinking about the unethical startups out there, and there are a lot of startups that are incredibly ethical.

Teaching 96

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 96

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Or, a neurodiverse student who struggles with verbal communication and is not able to show their true understanding of the course content when the instructor cold calls them as a form of assessment. Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct. emphasis added] (University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2023).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Or, a neurodiverse student who struggles with verbal communication and is not able to show their true understanding of the course content when the instructor cold calls them as a form of assessment. Instructors should take reasonable steps to address academic misconduct. emphasis added] (University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2023).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

It becomes the faculty’s responsibility to close the proximity and strongly engage students to pay close attention to assignments, read announcements, hold virtual office hours, and positively influence student outcomes of the course. But when you begin teaching in an online platform this proximity can be lost. References Authement, R.

Learning 111

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

It becomes the faculty’s responsibility to close the proximity and strongly engage students to pay close attention to assignments, read announcements, hold virtual office hours, and positively influence student outcomes of the course. But when you begin teaching in an online platform this proximity can be lost. References Authement, R.

Learning 98

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A professor or educator can spend a lecture or semester teaching the curriculum, but if you ask ChatGPT what the biggest takeaways from the war are, it’s possible and likely a learner is provided with even more context and historical facts via the chatbot than what is possible for an instructor to cover from a set curriculum.

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Virtual learning assistants, or mentors, will, with human overseers, autonomously support personalized development: Imagine personalized learning journeys powered by AI agents that bring relevant topics to your students’ attention, based on your interests. It also involves teaching them about privacy, digital footprints and online etiquette.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

AI is the latest and one of the most revolutionary among these breakthroughs , making it a strategic concern that requires leadership attention. Realizing this potential, however, will require instructors to rethink learning objectives and understand what AI can and cannot do.

Plagiarism 52

Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2022

Bahriye Goren, NYU professor Goren and Israel say their emphasis on caring in teaching did not derive directly from what has come to be known as the ethics of caring , but from their own experience of the needs of students. Later, Stanford University philosopher of education Nel Noddings extended it into a broader ethical concept.

Ethics 168

Ethics Lecturing Motivation Instructors 168

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Barry says positive words such as ‘helpful’ and ‘good listening’ and ‘I am acting with ethics’ when he tells me I act with quality,” she says. “If

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis.

Communication 356

Communication Skills Reading Science 356

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2025

The key is that we maintain rigorous standards of quality–and create clear guardrails around the ethical use of AI at a time when increasingly sophisticated models are blurring the lines between human design–and artificial intelligence. This evolution will make high-quality STEM education more universally accessible.

Ethics 350

Ethics Writing Feedback Knowledge 350