Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Meanwhile, research is also being conducted today to understand how chatbots can be used as teaching assistants. In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

.” National Civics Bee Teams Up With Khan Academy This year, for the first time, students who advance to the local competitions will receive free tutoring support through Khan Academy’s new AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant, Khanmigo. ” The course format is partially synchronous.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But because these online platforms are easy to hide from instructors and are available 24/7, they can be trickier for students and professors to navigate.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

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. Meanwhile, a human teaching assistant monitored any replies that students sent back to the chatbot.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A Difference of Opinion People are still figuring out what the boundaries of this shiny, new piece of technology are in education, says Stephen Aguilar, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

McGraw-Hill and Pearon emphasized that instructors retain the freedom to decide whether to assign bundled materials to students in their classes, and those students can then choose whether to opt out. Pearson has typically seen opt-out rates below 5 percent, according to Osborne.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

One document they obtained outlines a set of possible services Academic Partnerships provides that includes “utilize virtual teaching assistance,” and also talks about details including course lengths and caps on enrollment. AP does not provide any teaching assistance nor oversight of it,” she added.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2023

Online teaching has become more popular and accessible for students. As such, more instructors are teaching online courses. In-person classes often have this built into the first week of classes and instructors and professors share information about themselves. Why did you take this course? What do you do for fun?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. Overcoming initial resistance from a student can require an instructor to build a relationship with the child. At the moment, though, precisely what that looks like differs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

For instructors who want to adopt it, he provides a password to a library of materials, and even plans to add the slides he uses for the in-person version of the course. He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. embassy to get him out.

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Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 164

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Second, the tool is not designed to fully-automate grading, meaning instructors aren’t out of the process completely.

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Grades Exams Instructors Teaching Assistants 94

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Importantly, building classes that contain these elements for both students and instructors can lead to benefits for all. Below, I outline details about the five components and ideas for both students and instructors. For instructors: Reflect on your decision latitude to design your course from start to finish.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

One thing we know for sure is that AI is not going away and will continue to evolve and change the landscape of teaching and learning. Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps!

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

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

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. And he believes that having AI-driven tutors or instructors will help them each get the individual approach they need. But should we? And if the answer is yes, what’s the right mix of human and machine in the classroom?

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Intelligence Teaching Assistants Languages Language 162

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Importantly, building classes that contain these elements for both students and instructors can lead to benefits for all. Below, I outline details about the five components and ideas for both students and instructors. For instructors: Reflect on your decision latitude to design your course from start to finish.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 94

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Students will be able to ask Watson open-ended questions related to their course content, and the intelligent tutoring system will also provide instructors with insights about how well students are learning and where they might need extra help. FROM JEOPARDY TO TUTORING: Pearson is adding IBM’s Watson as a tutor to its online college courses.

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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 157

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

One thing we know for sure is that AI is not going away and will continue to evolve and change the landscape of teaching and learning. Often, there are suggestions on what AI can do, but instructors might struggle with figuring out how to use it effectively. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps!

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback 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?

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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 111

Education Instructors Culture Teaching Assistants 111

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.

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Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 108

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. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated?

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Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

His teaching assistants have engaged with students in the class from places such as Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, Samoa and Vietnam. He offers a free set of resources for instructors who wish to use the ANTH 101 materials. These answers are curated on the main ANTH 101 website.

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Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

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

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

Teaching 91

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To prevent COVID learning losses, ASU Prep Digital provides online instructors to teach Cleveland-area students who miss in-person learning due to a 10-day quarantine. We look forward to customizing this offering to fit the needs of more schools that could use this same type of quality teaching assistance.”.

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Hybrid Learning Schools Learning Curriculum 130

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

TPS is also a lower-stake activity than most group work, since the learning takes place in an environment that the teacher controls, where the students are encouraged to share their communal learning with the whole class under the direct supervision of the instructor. International Journal of Science Education , 45 (15), 1241–1261.

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Thus, it’s pressing for instructors to collaborate on concrete ways to create a welcoming tone and build rapport in digital spaces. As Michelle Pacansky-Brock (2023) notes, “connecting with you [the instructor] before they connect with course content will establish a supportive and welcoming course climate that will also cultivate community.”

Culture 122

Culture Communication Writing Language 122

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 135

Learning Textbooks Feedback Teaching Assistants 135

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 91

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 91

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

These stories also show that innovative teaching was top of mind this past year, from shaking up the way instructors teach online, to talking about race in the classroom, to experimenting with augmented and virtual reality. Of course, even our favorite stories don’t end up in front of the most readers.

Education 137

Education Textbooks Attention Teaching Assistants 137

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. Jakopovic, P.,Rech,

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Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment. While AI can analyze data with unmatched precision, the emotional, empathetic aspect of teaching and learning is irreplaceable.

Intelligence 122

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

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. Trace boundaries around your fingers and palm to create an outline of your hand.

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Confidentiality Instructors Motivation Writing 94

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Thus, it’s pressing for instructors to collaborate on concrete ways to create a welcoming tone and build rapport in digital spaces. As Michelle Pacansky-Brock (2023) notes, “connecting with you [the instructor] before they connect with course content will establish a supportive and welcoming course climate that will also cultivate community.”

Culture 98

Culture Communication Writing Language 98

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.

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