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

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that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. They could always find and read the content on their own. What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It

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How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research

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Professors often spend years writing a paper or a book, he adds, and then it takes years or months to get published, and then read by very few people. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. Because let's say a student essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words, you can't easily read that out on a podcast.

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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

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Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  Easy access to lecture materials and study guides added to their convenience.  The method of organization does not really matter as long as it is user-friendly.

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How Improving Student Feedback and Teaching Data Science Restored Our Classroom Culture

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Lack of Agency over Learning: "I felt that you didn't teach us anything in class.with so many students telling you we learn better with lectures, I feel you are ignoring our feedback and just taking the easier path." Students use peer feedback to quickly revise their work and pose at least one question before I provide in-app feedback.

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How U of Michigan Built Automated Essay-Scoring Software to Fill ‘Feedback Gap’ for Student Writing

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The M-Write program started in 2015 as a way to give more writing feedback to students by enlisting other students to serve as peer mentors to help with revisions. Senior lecturer Brenda Gunderson teaches a statistics course that will be first to adopt the automated element of M-Write.

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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

Faculty Focus

Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference.  Easy access to lecture materials and study guides added to their convenience.  The method of organization does not really matter as long as it is user-friendly.

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