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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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The instructor can decide if you want to let anyone who has the link be able to collaborate, protect your ideas with a password, or require people to set up accounts before they can engage. This is just one example of a tool that makes it easy for student-to-student interaction without requiring much effort from instructors to set it up.

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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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Every new version of Microsoft PowerPoint allowed instructors to embed more and more media and wow students with visually appealing graphics. Including student voices as active and important features of course design is a key component of a classroom based on dialogue, and this is what it truly means to be an inclusive instructor.

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Classroom Learning

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Key points: Traditional classroom learning is now modernizing Debates remain about online vs. classroom learning Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Classroom learning remains a cornerstone of education, fostering a dynamic environment where students engage with peers and instructors in real-time.

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Community in the Classroom

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Students have fun guessing and are usually surprised by the company – in the past I have used FTX (the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange), WeWork (the now bankrupt co-working space company), and Apple (one of the most highly valued companies in history). Here are a few outcomes: Group Final?!?:

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Social Justice Movements to Health Policy: Lessons from a Pilot Cross-Course Collaborative Project

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Communication: We required all cross-course groups to develop a Team Charter of agreed upon cross-course group policies and procedures for optimal group cohesion, and to maintain a Microsoft Teams page with both instructors included. Kristen Petersen, PhD, is an associate professor of history and social sciences.

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Community in the Classroom

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Students have fun guessing and are usually surprised by the company – in the past I have used FTX (the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange), WeWork (the now bankrupt co-working space company), and Apple (one of the most highly valued companies in history). Here are a few outcomes: Group Final?!?:

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A Team Effort: Educators Collaborate to Bring AI Into K-12 Classes

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I even got a chance to meet with one of the instructors and course creators from GM who is actually in Sterling Heights, which is right next to our town, within 10 miles of our school. We see each other on Zoom meetings or chat on our WebEx channel, but this was an opportunity to get a group working together that was really diverse.