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How Online Instructors Can Avoid ‘Burnout’

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It was just one example of how she—and many online instructors—feel like they must be always on call when they teach an online course. Well, we know the reality: it’s very difficult to do that, and that’s not really what online teaching is.” Online teaching is not necessarily the same.”

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How CTE supports college and career readiness

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As a career and technical education (CTE) instructor, I see firsthand how career-focused education provides students with the tools to transition smoothly from high school to college and careers. For example, when we cover anatomy and physiology, we dont just look at diagramswe work with real organs sourced from a local butcher.

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Who You Gonna Call? A Harvard Lecturer's Quest for Equitable Class Participation

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Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.

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Big Deals—Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee, AI Tackles Campus Safety, and Stanford Offers Online Math

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The competition is expanding to 27 states for the 2023-2024 school year, tripling its reach from nine states last year. Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Students may apply for the competition here. The deadline to enter is January 8, 2024.

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There’s a New Wave of AI Research Coming to Transform Education

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With this level of funding, we didn’t want to just patch up the way school is today. Other challenges are that online students don’t have the same level of interaction with instructors or teaching assistants, he explains, and lack the social interaction and peer-to-peer learning students experience by being on campus.

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How to Motivate Students to Actually Do Homework and Reading

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Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students. Two common concerns that I’ve come across are that: Grading takes up too much time for instructors, and that.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).