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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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. 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. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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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

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.

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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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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

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. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April. That can lead to missteps, like, in his opinion, regarding chatbots as a replacement for instructors or paraprofessionals. It promised to increase efficiency, he argued.

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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). Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. 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.

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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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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). Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“We’re calling for a halt to these programs until faculty and other university stakeholders can conduct a thorough review,” said Daric Thorne, a graduate assistant and president of the EMU Federation of Teachers, during a press briefing on Wednesday. It represents a de-skilling of the teaching profession.” They are NOT replacements.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2018

When budget woes threatened faculty reductions in the anthropology department at Kansas State University, one professor decided to address the shortfall by teaching differently. The professor, Michael Wesch, has a long track record of teaching innovation. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. The company’s co-founder, Derek Li, said during a keynote that replacing some teaching functions with AI-powered software would supercharge the country’s education system. to the idea of bringing in robots for some teaching functions. But should we?

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Intelligence Teaching Assistants Languages Language 162

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As generative AI evolves rapidly, it is essential to explore and discuss its impact on teaching and learning for both faculty and students. We also asked faculty who were using AI to share how it impacted their teaching and learning. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps!

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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.

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Education Instructors Culture Teaching Assistants 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. When we teach large classes, what approaches can we employ that will have a greater opportunity to engage students and help students learn more? He offers a free set of resources for instructors who wish to use the ANTH 101 materials.

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Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As generative AI evolves rapidly, it is essential to explore and discuss its impact on teaching and learning for both faculty and students. We also asked faculty who were using AI to share how it impacted their teaching and learning. 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

Will it spell the end of countless jobs or create new horizons for teaching, research, and meaningful work? 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. Will AI save or enslave us?

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Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

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 Feedback 92

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning. An unusual survey conducted at colleges across Australia asked professors what kind of data would help them teach better. WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS? A troublesome liability for college campuses.

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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 157

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. References Strenghscope. 2022, February).

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Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 108

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Teachers will need to learn and refine their online teaching skills and find new opportunities for working from home, allowing them a better work-life balance. And there is power in that data, not just from the perspective of ROI, but also in the potential for teaching and learning and ensuring data privacy compliance.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Will it spell the end of countless jobs or create new horizons for teaching, research, and meaningful work? 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. Will AI save or enslave us?

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Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. 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.

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Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 91

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.”

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Culture Communication Writing Languages 122

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. Many schools are searching for an approach that lets them effectively teach in this still unpredictable COVID environment,” said Young. “At

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Hybrid Learning Schools Learning Curriculum 130

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. Buil et al.,

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

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. References Strenghscope. 2022, February).

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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. How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching. The “Year of the MOOC” is long behind us.

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Education Textbooks Attention Teaching Assistants 137

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.

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Learning Textbooks Feedback Teaching Assistants 134

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. A lot of students are struggling emotionally this year because of the pandemic and teaching is harder than it’s ever been because of this shift.

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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. Brown-Kramer, C.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 105

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. Expert Systems with Applications ,  212 , 118762.

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Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122