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General Education for Working Learners in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

Grab the syllabus for this course and drop it into the chat bot. Please design a semester-long work-based learning experience to teach me the psychology concepts and learning outcomes that are described in the attached syllabus. First, open your institutional instance of generative AI.

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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

Faculty Focus

Each semester, the surveys were refined based on student feedback and changing classroom dynamics. A reworded syllabus, an anonymous feedback survey, or a mid-semester check-in can shift a students entire trajectory. These findings dont argue against academic rigor. Many of the most impactful changes were not labor-intensive.

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Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Cult of Pedagogy

For example, if you want students to support claims with relevant details, that expectation should be stated on a rubric that is given to students well in advance of when the assignment is due, and should be the focus of lessons, formative feedback, and student reflection. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.

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Preparing for Fall 2020: Blended and Online Learning

Catlin Tucker

Lesson 1: Design Your Course Syllabus Lesson 2: Set Up Your Virtual Classroom Lesson 3: Curriculum Mapping for First Semester Lesson 4: Helping Students Get (and Stay) Organized. The action items encourage teachers to take what they learned in the video lessons to create resources they can use with students.

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Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey

Edsurge

The Syllabus Gets a Facelift. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus. In many ways, the traditional syllabus places restrictions on when, what and how students will learn.

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Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is Over

Edsurge

Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received. This practice is called early-term feedback. In general, faculty and instructors are really responsive to student feedback. Collecting feedback can be as easy as passing out index cards.

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10 things all great online educators do

eSchool News

Encourage substantive feedback from students, to students. Check for questions frequently and provide timely feedback on progress. Prepare syllabus and assignment due dates carefully and well in advance so that students know what to expect and when.

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