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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

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Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

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Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

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Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. Tessa Wolf strengthened our commitment to inclusive course design. Sheza Shaikh centered mental health and belonging in her writing.

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

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that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. The empathetic course design perspective. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

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At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. Why Start With Think-Pair-Share?

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3 Ways To Improve Student Success With Strong Course Design

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It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. All of this starts with a good course design.

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When to Teach Online Classes Live and When to Let Students Learn on Demand

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The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture.

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