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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

Faculty Focus

Building Interdisciplinary Courses: Choosing Scope and Mixing Knowledge Creating a solid interdisciplinary course starts with a clear scope and thoughtful mixing of knowledge. The U-shaped learning model from O’Sullivan (2025) backs this kind of team learning since building people skills helps blend knowledge and put it to use.

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. This was our role as instructors prior to the advent of AI. As instructors, our role is not just to provide access to content. Our role is to excite our students about the content. Saucier, Ph.D.

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How to Make Online Learning More Engaging and Effective for Students

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Peer Review and Group Projects: Online learning isn’t only about solo work. If your child is reluctant to get involved with other students, give them a little push to participate fully in group assignments or peer review activities. Try setting mini-goals and offering small incentives to help keep them motivated.

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Shifting Focus From Ideas To The Effects Of Those Ideas

Teach Thought

Does that encourage them to pour over peer-reviewed journals of emerging pedagogies to only bring in “proven” methodology into their classroom? When they graduate from this hypothetical machine, will they have a strong sense of self-knowledge, wisdom, place, and familial legacy? Of critical thinking, work, and love?

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2024: The year of generative AI

eSchool News

This shift has the potential to make assessments more engaging and more reflective of real-world skills and knowledge application. Project-based assessments, peer reviews, and interactive simulations offer students opportunities to demonstrate their understanding in diverse and meaningful ways.

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AVID has huge benefits for high school students

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16 in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics , suggest that the Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) program, aimed at increasing educational opportunities for under-represented and economically disadvantaged students, also significantly reduces substance use. The findings, published Dec.

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Gale’s Political Extremism and Radicalism Series Wins 2022 SIIA CODiE Award

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Our mission is to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights and this recognition is further confirmation of the innovation and value Gale Primary Sources brings to enriching the research experience for students and faculty.”. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan.