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'Better Every Semester': How Faculty Use Open Educational Resources to Improve Courses

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When Melissa Hardy took over a biology laboratory class at Salt Lake Community College, she inherited a commercial lab manual that left much to be desired. What I’ve long said about OER is, it really makes the instructor think differently about their teaching and their courses,” Greenlaw says. “It It was out of date.

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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. That can lead to missteps, like, in his opinion, regarding chatbots as a replacement for instructors or paraprofessionals. It promised to increase efficiency, he argued.

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From Feedback to Feedforward: Using AI-Powered Assessment Flywheel to Drive Student Competency

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This contrasts with the typical assessment arrangement where feedback is considered a product offered to the student in exchange for what they submit. In the field of engineering, which is my academic background, traditional methods such as lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions are the dominant content delivery vehicles.

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How the Pandemic May Help More Students See Themselves as Scientists

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To create the videos, we filmed mentor and mentee pairs of students who identify as Black, Latino/a, South Asian, and Persian as they shared lunches and laboratories while studying material science, chemistry, microbiological organisms and neurological brain functions.

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From Feedback to Feedforward: Using AI-Powered Assessment Flywheel to Drive Student Competency

Faculty Focus

This contrasts with the typical assessment arrangement where feedback is considered a product offered to the student in exchange for what they submit. In the field of engineering, which is my academic background, traditional methods such as lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions are the dominant content delivery vehicles.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

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Our colleagues’ perceptions can also prove useful as they can provide content and/or teaching-specific feedback that students may not be able to and that our own autobiographical lens may interpret differently. The intent is to help the instructor think critically about their teaching and look for evidence of effective teaching.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

Faculty Focus

Our colleagues’ perceptions can also prove useful as they can provide content and/or teaching-specific feedback that students may not be able to and that our own autobiographical lens may interpret differently. The intent is to help the instructor think critically about their teaching and look for evidence of effective teaching.

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