Educational Technologies Essay Lecturing 
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JUNE 6, 2017
The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. Senior lecturer Brenda Gunderson teaches a statistics course that will be first to adopt the automated element of M-Write.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2020
For instance, after subscribing to a service called EssaySoft, you can tell its essay generator to write a paper on, say, “symbolism in the great Gatsby” (or whatever you need for class). Oh, and if you don’t like it, just click “re-generate” and get a new bot-written essay. They can just have the essay generator do it.”
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APRIL 12, 2018
Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”
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OCTOBER 25, 2018
“Like at Oxford or Cambridge, the typical undergraduate coursework at Ambrose consists of writing two essays per week for three years,” says the plan. As the plan continues: “Ambrose will encourage its faculty to produce lectures to complement each of their weekly tutorial sessions. Terms conclude with a summative assessment.”
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AUGUST 1, 2024
It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? Should they disclose that to students?
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OCTOBER 19, 2023
As one instructor wrote in an essay last year , “everyone lost something in HyFlex courses. The proponents of HyFlex classes are often making a larger argument against the standard lecture model of teaching that is the norm at colleges. Lectures, for example, are not holding up well in some studies.) What’s the ‘Gold Standard’?
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JULY 6, 2023
A New Analysis Dives Into the Research Flipped learning had a big moment during the pandemic, when many professors decided it made a lot of sense to ask students to watch recorded lecture videos on their own, then use class time for active learning. But does this model of instruction actually work?
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