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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

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He visited my office and in the course of our conversation he asked me how I thought I would use AI as a college instructor moving forward. What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn. The empathetic course design perspective. Saucier, Ph.D. Teaching of Psychology, 52 (1), 45-52.

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Online courses can quickly become overwhelming as the emails, discussion posts, and papers roll in like the next COVID-19 variant. Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails.

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Online courses can quickly become overwhelming as the emails, discussion posts, and papers roll in like the next COVID-19 variant. Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails.

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What Job Design Can Teach Us About Course Design

Faculty Focus

Work that is interesting is inherently more motivating, more satisfying, and reduces turnover (Parker et al., The leading theory in job design is Job Characteristics Theory (JCT) (Hackman & Oldham, 1976). In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment.

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Course Design as a Gateway to Student Well-being 

Faculty Focus

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

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What Job Design Can Teach Us About Course Design

Faculty Focus

Work that is interesting is inherently more motivating, more satisfying, and reduces turnover (Parker et al., The leading theory in job design is Job Characteristics Theory (JCT) (Hackman & Oldham, 1976). In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment.

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Course Design as a Gateway to Student Well-being 

Faculty Focus

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).