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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?

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When Students Don’t Like What They’re Doing: Applications for Group Work

Faculty Focus

Students—not all, but many—like easy assignments, courses that aren’t all that demanding, and test questions requiring memorized minutiae. Those were variables over which instructors can exercise some control, including: Group size, Free-riding, and Leadership. The word like does become a barrier to learning.

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When Students Don’t Like What They’re Doing: Applications for Group Work

Faculty Focus

Students—not all, but many—like easy assignments, courses that aren’t all that demanding, and test questions requiring memorized minutiae. Those were variables over which instructors can exercise some control, including: Group size, Free-riding, and Leadership. The word like does become a barrier to learning.

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Enhancing Student Access to Course Content: The Advantages of a Customized Website

Faculty Focus

Keeping our students engaged and connected to course content is at the top of an instructor’s list. Faure is a dedicated educator, teaching undergraduate courses such as anatomy and physiology I and II, principles of biology II, and graduate courses like ABCs of molecular techniques and research methods labs.