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InstructureCon 2025: Ryan Lufkin, Vice President of Global Academic Strategy, Brings the Skinny

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Learn how newer features like Quick Reassess and Assessment Compare can help you work smarter, not harder! Youll also explore how to harness real-time data to fuel impactful discussions in your Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), driving focused, results-oriented collaboration.

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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For the techy wonks, there are discussions on blockchain and interoperability. This session, moderated by EdSurge’s senior editor Jeff Young, will take the form of a series of lightning talks by Jill Buban (Unizen), Martin Kurzweil (Ithaka S+R) and Robert Ubell (New York University), followed by a panel discussion with the speakers.

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A Transformative Journey: Lessons from My First Year  

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Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. While I believed I was a capable adjunct professor, this experience has shown me how much I had yet to learn about the art of teaching.

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A Transformative Journey: Lessons from My First Year  

Faculty Focus

Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. While I believed I was a capable adjunct professor, this experience has shown me how much I had yet to learn about the art of teaching.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

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If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This is critical work. Analyze your course policies (i.e.,

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Coachin’ in the Classroom

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Next, I drafted a one-page syllabus (Figure 1) that included my contact information, a course description, student learning outcomes, those same discovery questions (above), recommended texts, a preliminary course schedule, and an abbreviated outline of the course content. What could they contribute to their own success?

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