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Professors Take Out Ads Protesting Their University’s Online Degree Programs

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But the two faculty unions, the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and the EMU Federation of Teachers, which represents adjuncts, say that the company is involved in many aspects of course design and could bring in outside online coaches for students without faculty oversight.

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How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half

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Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe.

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Integrating Guest Speakers and Panelists in Online Courses 

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Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs. Intentional tech: Principles to guide the use of educational technology in college teaching.

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Integrating Guest Speakers and Panelists in Online Courses 

Faculty Focus

Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs. Intentional tech: Principles to guide the use of educational technology in college teaching.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

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This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style. How long should they last? research.com.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. And no one has quite figured it out yet. Goel: There is another tension.

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How One Master Educator Uses Visuals and Tech to Make Dracula a Must-Take Course

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He has also been selected as a Master Educator by the education technology company Course Hero , which produced a ten-minute film that features Stepanic and his crowd-pleasing class. EdSurge: Can you give us a little background on the history of the Dracula course? Resources to Inspire Your Course Design.

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