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What the F? Grading strategies for early career teachers

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To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. A teacher’s fallback practice may be to grade on a curve; however, curved grading is philosophically flawed in most course level applications.

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Marketplace trend update: 6 new products, teaching strategies, and learning initiatives

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Author Thomas Arnett, an education researcher at the Institute, noted that “ if you align your funding with impact, you are better positioned to design systems that support teacher-led instruction.” The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches in August with three online sessions.

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Is Higher Ed Really Ready to Embrace Hybrid Learning?

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That may mean hiring more staff who have expertise in digital course design and instruction—and reevaluating whether to pay for help from outside companies or bring services in-house. This means institutions should communicate very clearly with students about what to expect from their hybrid programs, Simunich says.

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How College Faculty Can Beat the Cheat

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April Millet, a learning designer at Penn State University, gave educators tips on how to do so last week at the 2018 OLC Accelerate conference in Orlando. Photo Credit: Tina Nazerian Consider Pedagogy and Course Design Safeguarding a course from cheating can come down to the very design of the course itself.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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Our administration has done well at communicating, and the faculty have done a really great job of moving online quickly. So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam. EdSurge: In terms of accessibility during this time, what have you learned? Is it going pretty smoothly?

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How Faculty Can ‘Click’ Their Way to a More Inclusive Classroom

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Faculty risk excluding certain students and impeding their ability to succeed when they aren’t intentional about design and facilitation. It is important that CRS questions mirror questions that might appear on an exam. What do we mean by an inclusive classroom? But using these tools successfully requires careful consideration.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

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Establish and maintain an inclusive community: During the first days of class, it is important to initiate an anonymous survey and a follow-up discussion about what makes students feel valued, seen, respected, included, challenged, and supported by the instructor and their peers. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

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