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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

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When professors teaching face-to-face adopt online pedagogy, the classroom is transformed into a “blended” experience, moving from conventional to active learning. Other industries have experienced similar histories as new technologies rolled in. Faculty who say, ‘I only teach on campus,’ are doing themselves a disservice.

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Don’t Call Them Test Companies: How the College Board and ACT Have Shifted Focus

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Nicholas Lemann, a journalism professor at Columbia University who wrote a book in 1999 about the history of the SAT called “ The Big Test ,” says such contradictions put these admissions-test makers in a tough, even impossible, spot. The group continues to build its portfolio of services around the framework.

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