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Colleges Can Turn Classes Into Virtual Communities. Here’s How.

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And if incoming students do not see the difference between the online instruction offered by their community college and by a traditional four-year residential school, many university administrators should be nervous indeed. You can make lots of small videos instead of whole lectures. Second, you can’t employ too much video.

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What If Students Are the Biggest Barrier to Innovation?

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For Pickett, it is a struggle to implement new digital learning styles with adult students as many of them are accustomed to traditional lecture models and are dismayed when they don't get what they expect. One student wrote me this email saying he went to business school, was a professional, and had never spent so much time one assignment.

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What It Takes For a College to Go Online

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Engage Faculty in the Decision to Go Online “If faculty don’t participate, you won’t have a program,” says Lisa Springer, provost at LIM College, a small Manhattan fashion-management school. Earlier, Springer was associate dean at NYU’s School of Professional Studies.

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

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That being said, Schons reflection-during-action is indeed being practiced in nursing education, medical education, acting schools, and professional sports. Write them down and have it with you as you start the lecture. During the lecture, focus on reflection-during-action. During the lecture, focus on reflection-during-action.

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Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’

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And when she last offered it in 2019, it was the most popular class at the university that semester, with about 450 students sitting in the largest lecture hall on campus. For that reason, Ahn argues that it’s the kind of course every college should offer — and possibly high schools as well.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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Simmons: In my experience, students definitely take those really seriously, because it is the one institutional way that we can give our thoughts that is really validated by the school in its own process. So, it really depends on how eager the student is to help improve the whole situation and the course specifically.

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

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Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses.

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