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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

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Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Brill-Wynkoop heard the same pitch back in the early 2000s: Instructors could catch a student turning in a peer’s paper from a previous semester with Turnitin. The Center for Democracy & Technology, a D.C.-based

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. This change reflects both the advancements in technology and the increasing availability of information at their fingertips.

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?What Studying Education Taught Me in 2017—And Where Tech Can Take Us This Year

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I had a very knowledgeable teacher, but lecture slides were available online, and they covered almost all of the material for the course. Online education and improved access to resources are changing the learning landscape. It seems an hour can be better spent reading slides and doing a practice problem than sitting through a lecture.

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Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?

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What’s the Use of Lectures? Let’s start with one of education’s most hallowed traditions: the lecture. In his 1971 book “ What’s the Use of Lectures? The author’s work did not discount the fact that there are inspirational teachers whose lectures are so compelling they can hold student attention for hours.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

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SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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

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The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models. Its conclusion?

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Who You Gonna Call? A Harvard Lecturer's Quest for Equitable Class Participation

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Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.

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