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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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Administrators at the University of Florida are so concerned that professors will refuse to teach in person this semester that they’re asking students to use an app to report any professor who teaches online instead. If the students want an in-person section, we’ll provide that. Richardson. On Twitter , professor Lisa S.

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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? What should we start doing in this class?

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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. Andersen says. “I

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Exam Blueprints: A Student-centric Approach to Assessment 

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The debate, however, often overlooks one crucial aspect: What do the students think? Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

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

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So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable.

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Exam Blueprints: A Student-centric Approach to Assessment 

Faculty Focus

The debate, however, often overlooks one crucial aspect: What do the students think? Understanding the utility and impact of exam blueprints from a student perspective can be a game-changer. They can also help instructors to ensure that exams are fair and equitable. No more guesswork—students know exactly what to expect.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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[That Monday], which is the first day we went online, we had about 28,000 or 30,000 students during the day [in online classes]. So far, there have been lots of glitches, but also a lot of faculty and students finding very quickly that things are going well. You’re talking about 5,000 or 6,000 classes going on all at once.

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