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When His Roster Outgrew His Classroom, This Prof Mastered Modular Online Curriculum

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Recently, Robertson became a member of the Course Hero Faculty Club , a platform where professionals in higher education share their teaching innovations, inspiration, and practical advice with the goal of helping all students learn deeply and graduate confident and prepared. His choice: modular learning.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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This can be a real challenge for procrastinators, multitaskers, responsibility jugglers and anyone tempted to half-listen to a lecture while scrolling through social media—in other words, many people. And so the online and hybrid courses these institutions spun up during the pandemic came with little of the scaffolding that experts recommend.

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?Can Online Teaching Work at Liberal-Arts Colleges? Study Explores the Pros and Cons

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The findings paint a complicated picture of whether online teaching can work for humanities courses at liberal arts colleges, and how much effort they take to produce. For some students (45 percent of the respondents), the online or hybrid courses were somewhat better or much better than in-person. A “modified yes,” he says.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Strategies for Teaching Complex Subjects in Large Hybrid Classrooms Across Campus: Bridging Engagement and Equity Across Modalities

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While large classes emphasize broad-reaching strategies like lectures and group activities, small classes enable individualized instruction and deeper exploration of topics (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). Miner, Ed.). References Beatty, B.

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Strategies for Teaching Complex Subjects in Large Hybrid Classrooms Across Campus: Bridging Engagement and Equity Across Modalities

Faculty Focus

While large classes emphasize broad-reaching strategies like lectures and group activities, small classes enable individualized instruction and deeper exploration of topics (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). Miner, Ed.). References Beatty, B.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.