Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Instructors may find it valuable to meet and teach to students in-person, rather than creating content for the proverbial faceless void. Increased planning for program and instructors. Additionally, it can be difficult for instructors to strike a balance between teaching effectiveness and covering enough material for the course.

Education 122

Education Instructors Culture Teaching Assistants 122

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These factors converge to understandably discourage teachers with established routines from shifting away from lecturing and into flipped learning, a change that many scholars of pedagogy and education sciences strongly advocate for. Discussion Questions: Reflect on your challenges in teaching a large STEM class. McDonough, M.,

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Instructors may find it valuable to meet and teach to students in-person, rather than creating content for the proverbial faceless void. Increased planning for program and instructors. Additionally, it can be difficult for instructors to strike a balance between teaching effectiveness and covering enough material for the course.

Education 111

Education Instructors Culture Teaching Assistants 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. We've been talking a lot about evaluations for teaching, but I'd love to dig into the teaching itself.

Teaching 114

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 114

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies. That effort laid the groundwork for the company’s course-authoring tools, which offered instructors more control over the sequence of content and feedback that students encounter as they work through the materials.

Learning 128

Learning Textbooks Feedback Teaching Assistants 128

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course.

Assignments 97

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 97

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Taken together, open access admission policies and challenges to student engagement in the community college context present a unique opportunity for utilizing student workers as learning assistants. While the other instructor mostly focused on breaking the subject up in a simplified way. Education Sciences, 8 (4), 168.

Learning 98

Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A student in New York can collaborate on a science project with a peer in Tokyo, all orchestrated through AI-managed interfaces that track and guide their combined progress. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment.

Intelligence 120

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 120

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

While I have had to readjust some of my teaching methodology, I have also come to appreciate all of the technology I learned to use this past year and plan on continuing to use it in my instruction. –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. — Ryan Graham, Chief Technology Officer, Texthelp.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course.

Assignments 77

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 77

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A student in New York can collaborate on a science project with a peer in Tokyo, all orchestrated through AI-managed interfaces that track and guide their combined progress. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment.

Intelligence 107

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 107

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Reflecting on my experiences as a student, I know how tough it is to pay attention during these longer lectures and wish instructors had a different way to deliver them. Hoekstras research interests lie in enhancing teaching techniques in higher education and the effects of government policy on entrepreneurs. Keller, Arielle S.,

Lecturing 97

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 97

Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

Keywords : Lab Report Template, Rubric, Hidden Curriculum Background Laboratory courses are a staple of undergraduate science programs. Different instructors have disparate expectations when it comes to completing these reports. Students generally know that a lab report should include an introduction, methods, results, and discussion.

Laboratory 52

Laboratory Instructors Feedback Writing 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. While I have had to readjust some of my teaching methodology, I have also come to appreciate all of the technology I learned to use this past year and plan on continuing to use it in my instruction.

Hybrid Learning 294

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 294

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Reflecting on my experiences as a student, I know how tough it is to pay attention during these longer lectures and wish instructors had a different way to deliver them. Hoekstras research interests lie in enhancing teaching techniques in higher education and the effects of government policy on entrepreneurs. Keller, Arielle S.,

Lecturing 88

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 88

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

To implement the first piece of CAKE, care, we suggest an instructor take some time to implement this strategy. Instructors can provide sheets with an outline of a blank hand/palm or ask students to use the drawing function on their device as an option. Social Psychological and Personality Science , 19485506231218360.

Confidentiality 81

Confidentiality Instructors Motivation Writing 81

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Just as professors wouldn’t bring in a teaching assistant they couldn’t talk to or collaborate with, they shouldn’t adopt interactive tools that are mysterious and locked. We started collecting the data for that purpose, and then about that same year when we started OLI, we applied for an NSF grant for a science and learning center.

Teaching 92

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 92

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To use Sherpa, an instructor first uploads the reading they’ve assigned, or they can have the student upload a paper they’ve written. Then the tool asks a series of questions about the text (either questions input by the instructor or generated by the AI) to test the student’s grasp of key concepts. You’re on the spot,” he says.

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Perhaps students would learn more if they could query a robot themselves, instructors hypothesized.

Teachers 153

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 153

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. It’s of particular concern for reinforcing inequality in lucrative and vital science, technology, engineering and math careers, since the classification can knock students off the path to those positions.

Math 178

Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 178

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Some may experience anxiety or feel science is irrelevant to their careers (Rice et al. By creating a learning environment tailored to various majors, addressing barriers, and demonstrating real-world applications, instructors can make the classroom “YOUnique.”

Interdisciplinary 56

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 56

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Some may experience anxiety or feel science is irrelevant to their careers (Rice et al. By creating a learning environment tailored to various majors, addressing barriers, and demonstrating real-world applications, instructors can make the classroom “YOUnique.”

Interdisciplinary 55

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 55

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Students who want proof of completion and access to all of the resources of the course—including feedback from teaching assistants—must buy a Coursera membership that costs $49 per month. Kian Katanforoosh is the co-creator for the deep learning courses and is listed as the Head Teaching Assistant for all of them. “We

Teaching 138

Teaching Laboratory Textbooks Intelligence 138