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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

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Since the early days of online instruction, the response of many new instructors has been to figure out how to transfer elements of their face-to-face class into the online format. Exams are only good for a few things : managing faculty workload and assessing low level skill and content knowledge.

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The AI Advantage: Boosting Student Engagement in Self-paced Learning through AI 

Faculty Focus

This can be an advantage for instructors. In today’s fast-paced academic environment, instructors are often hard-pressed for time to provide comprehensive feedback to each student. In this way, AI can help to make assessments more authentic, relevant, and indicative of a student’s grasp of the subject matter.

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Tech Ed Resources–Online Classes and Coaching

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All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do.

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How College Faculty Can Beat the Cheat

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She recalled one instructor who told her that 11 students in her class of 35 turned in the exact same assignment using materials from Course Hero, a website where students can share and access course study materials. Faculty should also consider using more authentic assessments. That will help them feel more confident.”

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The AI Advantage: Boosting Student Engagement in Self-paced Learning through AI 

Faculty Focus

This can be an advantage for instructors. In today’s fast-paced academic environment, instructors are often hard-pressed for time to provide comprehensive feedback to each student. In this way, AI can help to make assessments more authentic, relevant, and indicative of a student’s grasp of the subject matter.

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Should Online Courses Have Less Students, Why?

Faculty Focus

It is quite possible to increase the number of seats in a well-designed online class, but for online instructors to build and facilitate student centered courses based on active learning and inclusive pedagogy, there are some important considerations. This is not possible online, so instructors need to increase communication efforts.

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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

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Instructional designers are experts who use their flexibility, knowledge, and skills in theory and practice to help faculty adapt to new ways of educating students (Pollard & Kumar, 2022). Let’s also not forget about assessments. An Example of the Working Relationships Between Instructional Designers and Instructors.

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