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Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System?

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And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. As Talbert soon discovered, there’s a whole world of so-called alternative grading systems. Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing.

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

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Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses.

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What Homeschooling During COVID-19 Taught Me About My College Teaching

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My husband, Dave, and I have now been thrust into the role of teachers for our two kids—one in kindergarten and the other in second grade—for the past couple of months. Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. Their actual teachers are amazing.

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

Faculty Focus

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. 2023; Topol, 2019). Spitale et al.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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Then we also have continued our webinars series with our Center for Faculty Development and Innovation. So instead of having a three-hour class, we've tried to break our lectures down into 10 minutes, followed by an interactive short activity. It's not like we're grading it for huge stakes. It's, “Did you miss the video?

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Colleges Planned to Move to Online for Snow Days. Now Some Are Closed Indefinitely.

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Still, says Kalikoff, her university wasn’t starting from scratch, since, like many colleges these days, every course uses a learning-management system as a digital hub for turning in assignments and issuing grades, and many professors already use plenty of digital tools in their teaching. Is That Online Teaching?

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