Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

When a student with Autism arrives in the classroom this changes how interactions occur between a neurodiverse (ND) student and a neurotypical (NT) instructor. These variances can be challenging in the classroom relating to communication and emotional reactions between the ND instructor and the predominant group of NT students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The new tool provides a semi-proctored environment for organizing research and writing in an AI-enabled environment. Composer is a new tool that allows PowerNotes+ users to see the full picture of writers’ research and writing, from AI-assisted text to outside sources to original thoughts, all color-coded for easy identification. “AI

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Writing Ethics Plagiarism Academic Integrity 161

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 29, 2024

Here are four tips from the Ask a Tech Teacher team to get you started: How to Improve Essay Writing Skills: Abbie Kay from State of Writing Giving Tips and Strategies for Students Improving essay writing skills is crucial for students aiming to excel academically.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter. The frame of content engagement can look different based on course, instructor and level of student. In addition to a heavy writing component, there is also a heavy reading component.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

When a student with Autism arrives in the classroom this changes how interactions occur between a neurodiverse (ND) student and a neurotypical (NT) instructor. These variances can be challenging in the classroom relating to communication and emotional reactions between the ND instructor and the predominant group of NT students.

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Instructors Learning Styles Students Communication 110

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Instructors at all levels should consider the following criteria to help them determine whether text-based submissions were student or AI-generated: 1. AI-generated text tends not to include typos, and such errors that make our writing human are often a sign that the submission was created by a human. Look for typos.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Writing an essay paper like a pro needs specific critical skills. Become a Master Essay Writer: 5 Innovative Approaches to Enhance Your Writing Skills Introduction Thinking of some topic and putting that into academic words is a cumbersome transition that most students fail to complete. Not everyone is capable of writing well!

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We are both instructors for our class group, which means we can both develop and post assignments, as well as access our students’ work and provide them with feedback. If our students are completing a piece of writing or working on a big project, we work together to provide them with ongoing feedback in real time and online.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

However, these statements are either written so broadly that there can be different interpretations of the language, or these statements indicate that the responsibility of determining what is allowable depends on the instructor, or both! A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A higher-ed faculty member offers insights on how to determine if generative AI has been used in assignments : Instructors at all levels should consider certain criteria to help them determine whether text-based submissions were student or AI-generated.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

There's a leadership author who writes a lot about change and his name is John Kotter, and that first step [he suggests] on how do you influence change is to create a sense of urgency. As you mention, there is this potential out there for misinformation about this coronavirus and COVID-19. Well, the coronavirus is doing that for us.

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Instructors Teaching Multiple Choice Questions Ethics 202

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. I came to alternative assessment alongside many other instructors as COVID-19 forced seasoned instructors to grapple with assessment policies. You cant learn without laboring (76).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. It’s almost like this symphony that the instructor is the heart of.” One of the things we do as researchers is we test ideas,” says Stull. “We

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

You may have seen Lang’s writings about teaching before. He has been writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education for more than 20 years, most recently as a monthly teaching columnist, and he has bylines in popular publications including the Boston Globe and Time magazine. He was in his home office in Massachusetts.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. I’m also a writing specialist in a support center. I work with students from all disciplines and cultural and linguistic backgrounds where I cover the whole spectrum of writing instruction. For students continuing to graduate school, the writing stakes are even higher.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Language 119

eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The kids do everything from writing scripts to selecting music to editing videos to singing and narrating. Winner: Tom Lamont, Painting and Design Technology Instructor, Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School Nominated by: Tech Ed Concepts Inc. Topics range from immigration to kids without fathers.

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Instructors Achievement Elementary School Elementary School 317

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. Crucially, this method of writing a case will allow the educator to stay in charge at every step in the design, and it will use GenAI as a research and creative assistant.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

I’m a former educator in the process of writing my dissertation for my Doctorate of Education, as part of a part-time program while working a full-time job at Google. Many university campuses host “writing centers” where students can book time to get editing help on their written assignments. Upon reading it, I took a pause.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter versus when human-AI hybrid writing makes sense. Instructors across the disciplines question how and where their students will use AI.

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Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 204

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Bellas also turns to ChatGPT to help teachers make sure questions they write themselves are inclusive and accessible for the students’ learning level. “If He encourages his students to use ChatGPT for translation assistance, to improve their English writing, and to practice conversation.

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Teaching Quizzes Exams English 278

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. Crucially, this method of writing a case will allow the educator to stay in charge at every step in the design, and it will use GenAI as a research and creative assistant.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 114

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors. As one instructor wrote in an essay last year , “everyone lost something in HyFlex courses. What’s the ‘Gold Standard’?

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Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 206

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

References Understanding AI Writing Tools and Their Uses for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley | Center for Teaching & Learning. Instructors rush to do “assignment makeovers” to respond to CHATGPT – Edsurge News. 2023, July 27).

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. I’m also a writing specialist in a support center. I work with students from all disciplines and cultural and linguistic backgrounds where I cover the whole spectrum of writing instruction. For students continuing to graduate school, the writing stakes are even higher.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Language 98

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cost and ease of use won’t matter much if students and instructors won’t be bothered to learn how to use a device. They can effectively serve three different roles: writing instrument, video output display, and multimedia player. Which benefits should you look for? Reliability is another factor worth mentioning.

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Schools Instructors Internet Testing 284

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

I get hired sometimes to write reading stories for kids in classrooms, and I get paid $80. In many cases, what instructors learn by, say, running a short sample of a video they made for a class by a few students, is not about the content, but about the user experience, McNabb told EdSurge in an interview. McNabb, who earned a Ph.D.

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Testing Teaching Instructors Learning 210

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

However, these statements are either written so broadly that there can be different interpretations of the language, or these statements indicate that the responsibility of determining what is allowable depends on the instructor, or both! A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2023

Yet fixing group projects isn’t easy, since many instructors tend to repeat the same flawed methods that their own teachers used when they were students. For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we connected with John Warner, a longtime writing instructor at colleges and a teaching consultant for Eyler Warner & Associates.

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Instructors Essay Writing Grades 160

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

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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Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 196

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In fact, many college instructors have been downright grumpy about having been thrown into a new teaching format. Some instructors are so taken by active learning working so effectively that they expect to continue offering courses online, even when the pandemic restrictions completely lift and things are fully back in person.

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Teaching Lecturing Instructors Learning 175

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. Tyrone Howard, a professor of education who writes about research into students’ relationships with their teachers, said “I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse.

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 268

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s not as simple as assuming that students are all cheaters, the instructor stresses. Even when we are evaluating our colleagues in tenure and promotion files,” the professors write, “do you need to promise not to hit the button when you are plowing through hundreds of pages of student evaluations of teaching?”

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

If Eyptian and Arab universities invested in creating OER materials in Arabic , or translating existing ones, they’d be better able to offer “locally relevant content to the least-advantaged learners/educators,” writes Maha Bali, associate professor of practice at American University in Cairo. In the U.S.,

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Textbooks Instructors Education English 215