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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

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In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups.

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How Professors Can Bring Culturally-Responsive Teaching to Online Courses

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Instead of just superheroes, she invites students to think about their own cultural icons and cultural representations, and use that to design a character. The student and professor both shared the story last week during a session on culturally-responsive teaching in online courses at the 2017 OLC Accelerate Conference, in Orlando.

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Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI?

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As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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Every new version of Microsoft PowerPoint allowed instructors to embed more and more media and wow students with visually appealing graphics. Including student voices as active and important features of course design is a key component of a classroom based on dialogue, and this is what it truly means to be an inclusive instructor.

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Success in the Classroom: Leading a Diverse Student Body 

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According to the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) , today’s universities lean on strong teaching skills from their instructors, including adjunct instructors, and research shows a direct correlation between classroom management skills and higher retention rates and increased on-time graduation rates.

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Success in the Classroom: Leading a Diverse Student Body 

Faculty Focus

According to the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) , today’s universities lean on strong teaching skills from their instructors, including adjunct instructors, and research shows a direct correlation between classroom management skills and higher retention rates and increased on-time graduation rates.