Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

With 23 students working on 36 curricula, and seeking credits in English, social studies, science and electives, working on online courses and college credits, the program incorporates service-learning, project-based, inquiry-driven, problem-based, place-based, and culture-based learning. And nearly every day he writes.

Learning 166

Learning Syllabus Social Studies Students 166

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Close to 30 percent of Providence students are English Language Learners, and yet most of them are being taught by teachers who don’t speak their native language. writing submission tool that anonymizes the student work to prevent grading bias; The weekend was inspiring and left us at Highlander Institute excited to do more.

Culture 167

Culture Education Syllabus Attention 167

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Keywords: Student partnerships, Asset-Based Mindset, Language Resources Introduction In educational contexts, English is often privileged as the language of communication and instruction. Savini suggests that we ask ourselves what makes someone else’s writing unclear to us. language choices for turning in assignments?

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers. What many students do not know, is that no one sits down and writes a paper, even a paragraph, without starts and stops. 2014, August 14). 2023, May 25).

Academic Integrity 116

Academic Integrity Essay Plagiarism History 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

It’s as simple as writing something and then asking generative AI to rewrite it for a more polished version. Whether it’s whipping up dazzling PowerPoint slides, rewording a syllabus, or designing a new and exciting lesson, AI has you covered. As you gear up for the new semester, why not let AI do some of the heavy lifting?

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers. What many students do not know, is that no one sits down and writes a paper, even a paragraph, without starts and stops. 2014, August 14). 2023, May 25).

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Essay Plagiarism History 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

It’s as simple as writing something and then asking generative AI to rewrite it for a more polished version. Whether it’s whipping up dazzling PowerPoint slides, rewording a syllabus, or designing a new and exciting lesson, AI has you covered. As you gear up for the new semester, why not let AI do some of the heavy lifting?

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

Plagiarism 116

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Five strategies to foster sense of belonging Be caring and authentic: Syllabus policies and language, as well as introductory comments on the first day of class, set the tone for an entire term. The good news is that research points us to several aspects of inclusive and supportive classroom environments that positively impact belongingness.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI. Ted Lieu wants Congress to pass it ”).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI. Ted Lieu wants Congress to pass it ”).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Five strategies to foster sense of belonging Be caring and authentic: Syllabus policies and language, as well as introductory comments on the first day of class, set the tone for an entire term. The good news is that research points us to several aspects of inclusive and supportive classroom environments that positively impact belongingness.

Syllabus 101

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 101

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

The template features an intuitive layout and essential components such as a syllabus, clear assignment guidelines, feedback and grading policies, detailed discussion forums, and links to student support services. These efforts culminated a meticulously designed course template that is the backbone of the program’s online offerings.

Feedback 121

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 121

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

The template features an intuitive layout and essential components such as a syllabus, clear assignment guidelines, feedback and grading policies, detailed discussion forums, and links to student support services. These efforts culminated a meticulously designed course template that is the backbone of the program’s online offerings.

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

These courses are geared towards supporting freshmen in their transition to college by introducing them to academic discourse and college-level writing and research, among other skills. Julia Miller began her teaching career in 2007 in New Orleans where she taught middle school English for the next 14 years.

Critical Thinking 83

Critical Thinking Interdisciplinary Syllabus History 83

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

This April, Khan Academy announced “ Khanmigo ”, an AI-powered tutor that provides personalized one-on-one tutoring and real-time guidance to students as they conduct tasks from writing papers to coding software. Rather than chasing this unachievable goal of stopping student use of AI, institutions must redesign assessments (e.g.,

Plagiarism 52

Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That's something that hasn't really been knowable, since no one's been able to collect every syllabus out there and analyze the reading lists on them to see what pops as the top ranked. It's called the Open Syllabus Project and it's run out of a public policy center at Columbia University. As a writer, I love this.

Syllabus 118

Syllabus Textbooks Assignments Education 118

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Today we’re going to talk to three different writing professors with something to say about satire. And the third has a suggestion for the academic satire that he wishes someone out there would write. One is the author of an acclaimed academic satire. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

English 121

English Writing Culture Syllabus 121

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. [The Library of Trinity College Dublin. Photo by PhotoFra.]

Lecturing 217

Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. [The Library of Trinity College Dublin. Photo by PhotoFra.]

Lecturing 203

Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 203

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

With fewer and fewer undergraduates studying English, history and philosophy in college, the site for such conversations may be shifting away from campus. So Wellmon threw out his syllabus. I get to write about it,” he says. I think the arts and humanities gives us a site for doing all of those things.” A little piece of gold.

Art 218

Art Instructors Study Reading 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2025

Inspired by complete-the-story games in which players each write a line of a tale that builds off a previous persons idea, Gannon, director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, uses a similar concept to facilitate silent discussions.

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Discussions Art Instructors Participation 204