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Class Size Matters: Understanding the Link Between Class Size and Student Achievement

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Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. Tyrone Howard, a professor of education who writes about research into students’ relationships with their teachers, said “I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse.

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Promoting AI-Enhanced Performance in the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

Scholarly Teacher

Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT) is an innovative teaching approach where students and instructors collaborate to improve educational experiences ( Cavazos et al., One theme on building critical consciousness explored in our program is the presence of implicit linguistic biases in course syllabi and assignment designs.

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Promoting AI-Enhanced Performance in the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Once you’ve read Papert, use the Understanding By Design Framework to structure your curriculum. This curriculum design approach is used by teachers who work in traditional classrooms, but holds up just as well in the digital realm. Lesson 4: Go study other great teachers and other great learning experiences.

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Why Professors Doubt Education Research

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We found that there are faculty who think that the goal, their job as an instructor, is really to build a relationship with the student in which they recognize expertise in their disciplines and are afforded the space to do their own exploration—so that [the students] themselves can do the hard work of learning.

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New Provider Offers Low-Cost Online Courses. But Will the Credit Transfer?

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While MasterClass offers taped lectures on cooking by chef Gordon Ramsay, guitar shredding by musician Carlos Santana and creative writing by youth fiction author Judy Blume, the first Outlier courses teach calculus I and introductory psychology. Although the Outlier topics are decidedly more staid, they may serve a higher purpose.

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