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Anthology Sets New Standard in EdTech with Latest Blackboard® LMS Release, Emphasizing AI Literacy, Instructor Efficiency, and Student Success

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Orlando, Florida – Anthology, the leading educational technology company, revealed the latest iteration of its Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard, at Anthology Together 2024. This iteration focuses on enhancing AI literacy, improving instructor workflows, and supporting student achievement.

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College Students Are Doing Less Homework. Should Instructors Change How They Assign It?

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Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. I think there's less willingness to just do the thing because somebody told you to do it.” — Sarah Z.

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Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?

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Time-Lapse History Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin in Oakland, California, has used process tracking in her writing classes. Can process tracking turn out to be the answer to checking student work for authenticity? It can create a time-lapse video of the documents creation as well.

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Online-Only Students Report Little Interaction With Instructors and Peers

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The results of the survey , released this week, showed that students who took courses exclusively online were less likely to communicate with instructors and other students than students who take at least some courses in person. Student testimonies in the report bear this out.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

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Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I For Meeks, the longtime instructor, this means students are missing out on the whole point of college. “I You decided you wanted to go to the university and become educated.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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Instructors may still cling to lecture models, Kramer says, perhaps because “it helps their ego that they get to be the sage in front of a bunch of students professing how awesome they personally are.”

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Instructors Rush to Do ‘Assignment Makeovers’ to Respond to ChatGPT

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But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.