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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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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

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The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. “Impact of Open Educational Resources on Course Success.” 4 (2019): 355-362.

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

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When budget woes threatened faculty reductions in the anthropology department at Kansas State University, one professor decided to address the shortfall by teaching differently. The professor, Michael Wesch, has a long track record of teaching innovation. I think I’m a better teacher for it,” he says. he remembers.

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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

Faculty Focus

The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. “Impact of Open Educational Resources on Course Success.” 4 (2019): 355-362.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

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Keywords: Active Learning, Think-Pair-Share, STEM Background Introductory undergraduate STEM classes are notoriously painful experiences, both for the students and for the teacher. Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

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Why We Need to Share Care, Appreciation, Kindness and Empathy (CAKE) in our Classrooms  

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Care A caring teacher of any subject attends to the learners expressed needs over the assumed needs of the institutions. Stefanie Baier is the Director of Graduate Student and Postdoc Instructional Development at the Graduate Educator Advancement and Teaching (GREAT) Office at the Graduate School at Michigan State University.

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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. So, there is a teacher, there is a student. It's just not going to happen. So those two sets of goals are in conflict.