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When Colleges Sign ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Deals, Can Students and Professors Opt Out?

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McGraw-Hill and Pearon emphasized that instructors retain the freedom to decide whether to assign bundled materials to students in their classes, and those students can then choose whether to opt out. Pearson has typically seen opt-out rates below 5 percent, according to Osborne. “At PIRG and author of the report.

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Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

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Increasingly, instructors report difficulty maintaining students attention, citing ever-present distractions like smartphones, laptops, and a relentless stream of digital notifications. Rather than dictating course policies and classroom norms, instructors can instead ask: What do you think about this plan?

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

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Keywords: Student partnerships, Asset-Based Mindset, Language Resources Introduction In educational contexts, English is often privileged as the language of communication and instruction. 2024; Cook-Sather, 2020). 2024; Montenegro & Jankowski, 2017; Tinto, 2017; Winklemes, 2016).

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Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

Faculty Focus

Increasingly, instructors report difficulty maintaining students attention, citing ever-present distractions like smartphones, laptops, and a relentless stream of digital notifications. Rather than dictating course policies and classroom norms, instructors can instead ask: What do you think about this plan?

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When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse

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Mindy, a VIPKid instructor from Michigan, believes she once heard a student being beaten during a lesson; she can’t be sure, because the parent had disabled the video feed. “I And on June 20, another instructor wrote, “I do not like the verbal abuse and the threats of beatings with a broom.” I felt that it was abusive,” Mindy says.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Institutional offices of disability services, academic accommodations, and equality and diversity should be contacting instructors with reminders and information, Del Tufo says. Instructors who have questions or concerns should feel free to contact such offices themselves.

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Developing Your Approach to Generative AI

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The paid version of ChatGPT has been continually upgraded and can also create and read images, transcribe voice conversations, and create code in multiple languages (OpenAI, n.d.). This is a theoretical exercise without one right answer, but your response reveals key foci as an instructor. For students? Is it allowed but frowned upon?

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