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U. of Florida Asks Students to Use App to Report Profs Who Don‘t Teach In Person

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The university added new options to its campus safety app, called Gator Safe, asking students to report any “face-to-face/online course concern,” such as if “instructor modified the class to virtual.” Many faculty members have requested to teach online for the spring, out of concern for their health as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

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

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About a month into each semester, Gayle Golden sets aside a little time to ask her students about their learning. The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? But instructors can also take a more technical approach.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. But the burden may be especially heavy for adjunct instructors like Hardy.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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He argues that the traditional lecture method for teaching physics and other STEM fields has been proven ineffective, and that shifts to more active methods can greatly improve learning outcomes to make sure the next generation of researchers can make the next Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. Broadly, what do you think should change?

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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Among the topics addressed were what colleges have learned from campuses in China, where COVID-19 hit sooner; whether the pandemic might lead to more adoption of microcredentials and other alternative higher-ed models; and whether colleges should do more to evaluate tech-teaching skills when evaluating faculty members.

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Exam Blueprints: A Student-centric Approach to Assessment 

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They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. The need for exam blueprints In professional veterinary anatomy courses, Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) drive the course structure and assessment strategies. Yet, students are often required to learn a vast amount of material in a short period of time.

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Exam Blueprints: A Student-centric Approach to Assessment 

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They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. The need for exam blueprints In professional veterinary anatomy courses, Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) drive the course structure and assessment strategies. Yet, students are often required to learn a vast amount of material in a short period of time.

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