Language Syllabus Textbooks 
Faculty Focus
MAY 15, 2025
Textbook format and cost mattered. Inclusive language, representation, and proactive instructor support all contributed to students sense of belonging and trust. A reworded syllabus, an anonymous feedback survey, or a mid-semester check-in can shift a students entire trajectory. These findings dont argue against academic rigor.
Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 11, 2025
Use rubrics as a shared language of the route that teachers and students can use formatively to navigate the path toward high-quality work rather than as a summative tool to justify grades. Give students examples of proper citation formatting including for AI tools and textbooks and expect students to use them throughout the school year.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. OpenStax textbooks are display in a room named for the author of one the nonprofit's economics books. /
Edsurge
APRIL 9, 2020
For example, a philosophy professor at University of Notre Dame designed an introductory course that draws on “ interactive digital essays ” published on mobile-friendly web pages attached to the online syllabus, reports Inside Higher Ed. Of course, these programs may take significant time to develop. LA schools did indeed close.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Close to 30 percent of Providence students are English Language Learners, and yet most of them are being taught by teachers who don’t speak their native language. Within the Providence Public School District, nearly 92 percent of students are people of color while the teaching force is almost 80 percent white. Enter F.E.E.D.
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Consequently, the syllabus can be enlarged when classes take advantage of multimedia means -as it happened. The same problems that hinder learning when using textbooks occur when using videos. In textbooks, for instance, elements to facilitate memorization are frequent. Ways to use a movie for language teaching.
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Bean backpack along with my textbooks and kelly green Trapper Keeper. Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. Did using CliffsNotes constitute cheating?
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