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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

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As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. Schoeder, 2024).

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. Schoeder, 2024).

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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage. She also found the work of U.K.-based

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

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As one writing instructor posted to an e-mail list in 2005: “Am I being a stick-in-the-mud for for being horrified by students’ use of this source?”. There’s even a new peer-reviewed academic journal about using Wikipedia in higher education. A decade ago professors complained of a growing “epidemic” in education: Wikipedia.

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Brightspace Excellence Awards highlight innovation in online learning

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To increase motivation and completion rates of optional material, a reward system lets students unlock coupons and drawing entries for campus experiences as they complete modules and pass quizzes. Rochester Institute of Technology : Sandra Connelly, Instructor.

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Where Are All the Faculty in the Open Education Movement?

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When I attend professional gatherings on open education, however, instructors like myself are often the minority. Yet open educational materials impact faculty and students alike, and many instructors are using these resources today. That is not appealing to instructors,” argues Skidmore.

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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?

Faculty Focus

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. Assessments will always impact how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach.

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