Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, I know it is important to be able to address the needs of diverse learners. However, how do I know how inclusive I am in my teaching?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I wanted to provoke them, to get them to ask questions, and to start using these tools—not to cheat—but to flip their learning on its head. Now I invited them to use ChatGPT during our final inquiry unit, during which they’d ask questions, come up with a plan, leverage their research, and then go public with their findings.

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English Syllabus Intelligence Assignments 337

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Ever wonder why students dont read the syllabus, despite the time and effort we put into creating it? In many classes, professors go over the syllabus during the first week (Richmond, 2016), so frequently that students have dubbed it syllabus week not exactly the most exciting start to a semester!

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Syllabus Students Activities Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recently, I attended a conference and was sharing my new visual syllabus with some colleagues. After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?” I was ecstatic to hear this question! Illustration 1 : Page 1 of my Pokémon-themed syllabus.

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Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

So researchers hoping to engineer better teaching and learning systems are working to unlock a new level of education efficiency by creating AI tools that make it easier for almost anyone to build an AI tutor. “We The teacher teaches one ‘student,’ and the computer teaches all the rest,” Koedinger says.

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Teaching Intelligence Syllabus Learning 215

eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Introduce different modalities and tools: Tailor your teaching techniques. Planners that break down assignments, scaffolded note-taking templates, or even a syllabus can make all the difference in setting clear expectations. A little kindness and asking a simple question like, “How’s it going?”

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Reading Syllabus Learning Intelligence 306

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s unravel these questions. We’ve already discussed a few ways teachers can use social annotation, but a couple of other interesting methods might involve syllabus searching, where students annotate important course details as a way to help build a sense of community where they are all working towards something at the same time.

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Learning Universal Design Syllabus Quizzes 306

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience. Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 293

eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

With that in mind, certain strategies, tips, and guidelines have been proven to help instructors begin what can seem like an overwhelming task—teaching a course without ever even needing to physically see her students. Check for questions frequently and provide timely feedback on progress. Develop a strong classroom presence.

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Education Syllabus Instructors Feedback 279

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. In other words, we need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed.

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Can college students tell the difference between a human teaching assistant and a chatbot? A Georgia Tech computer scientist has been pursuing that question for several years. And the answer has profound implications for the future of college teaching. Georgia Tech is not alone in developing teaching bots.

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Teaching Syllabus Teaching Assistants Textbooks 138

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

Colleges found new ways of scaling, rethinking how teaching is done online. teach remote students. The institution was built with online in mind, and focuses on a so-called competency-based teaching method, where students work at their own pace and get credit when they show they know the material. It turns out he was right.

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Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 168

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2024

Then, I ask students the following questions: Who writes the stories? We then use these responses to solidify the course syllabus as a living document that prioritizes the voices and narratives absent from their previous experiences in the English department. Who is missing from the stories? Who benefits from the stories?

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Syllabus English Learning Students 188

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 161

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

When I started as an adjunct faculty member, I had no teaching experience. I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. These are three essential things that adjunct faculty (and all faculty) need to know about teaching when getting started.

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Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 119

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself). What is ChatGPT? See our ChatGPT Prompting Guide for Life Design + Career Education.

Ethics 338

Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 338

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. In other words, we need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed.

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

And he wanted to shake things up in his teaching after noticing how hard it was for him to not reach for his phone while reading—a habit that his students said they also struggled with. Photo: Sydney Johnson) One question he often gets is: How do you assess such a course? It’s pervasive. Adam Tejeda (left) and Joelle Thomas (right).

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Reading Teaching Lecturing Syllabus 161

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

When I started as an adjunct faculty member, I had no teaching experience. I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. These are three essential things that adjunct faculty (and all faculty) need to know about teaching when getting started.

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Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The following is the latest installment of the new EdSurge advice column about teaching in higher education. You can pose a question for a future column here. This semester—at the same institution—I will be teaching 2 online graduate courses: a brand new one on Canvas, and an existing one on Blackboard. syllabus-BUSN114.pdf)

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Syllabus Mobile Devices Learning Assignments 138

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

EdSurge’s managing editor, Tony Wan, will pose these questions to Bill Fitzgerald (New Knowledge), Doug Levin (EdTech Strategies), Courtney Goodsell (Impero Software) and Stephanie Cerda (administrator at Austin Independent School District). And how are educators supposed to prepare to teach media literacy lessons? 3:30 p.m.

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Syllabus Science Learning Styles Testing 115

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Andrea Fuentes, Director of Online Learning, Doral College Cultivating an engaging environment can be a challenge when teaching online. one question they had for others who read the same chapter.

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Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 165

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching. They also addressed audience questions about how to get faculty motivated to adjust their courses to improve accessibility. Del Tufo: That's a great question.

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Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

But the experiment points to interesting possibilities — and raises ethical questions — about how the latest AI tech might be used to improve teaching. While Arizona State hasn’t created virtual students, it recently announced a big commitment to experimenting with AI to improve its teaching.

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Intelligence Syllabus Feedback Assignments 211

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

For some educators that sudden shift led to some soul searching about what college teaching was all about. That was the case with Stephanie Bailey, an assistant professor at Chapman University who was teaching an introductory physics course in the spring covering concepts like electricity and magnetism. Learn more.

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Exams Essay Syllabus Writing 173

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall. Some educators worry that it will keep students from paying attention.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 215

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? After years of teaching, I noticed how often students carried academic, emotional, and personal burdens without sharing them. A reworded syllabus, an anonymous feedback survey, or a mid-semester check-in can shift a students entire trajectory.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 55

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. Inquiry about integrity begins with the question Does this work accurately represent the students skills and understandings?”

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on August 8, 2022 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living crap out of my students.

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Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on August 8, 2022 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living crap out of my students.

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Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 105

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. Here, they were free to ask me any questions. I put the document on a screen and reviewed it with them.

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Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 116

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We’re about to start year 3 of teaching in the pandemic, and it seems like an appropriate time to think back to March 2020 to think about what new things I’ve started to adjust to COVID-19 disruptions, what I stopped doing and what I plan to continue for 2022. This is a real question. But so far, nobody has even noticed.

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Education Syllabus Instructors Intelligence 180

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cavazos , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Ryan McBride , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Key Statement: Student-faculty partnerships can foster asset-based approaches in teaching and learning that challenge implicit linguistic bias and enhance students’ linguistically diverse resources. 2024; Cook-Sather, 2020).

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Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Experts say it’s an effective strategy for improving teaching and learning quickly—sometimes as soon as the very next class period. What should we start doing in this class?

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Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 188

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2015

What I want to do today is go over the most common questions I’ve gotten regarding sign ups: Q: What is the cost to register? Email the instructor at askatechteacher at gmail dot com throughout the week and/or bring up your question at the weekend Google Hangout or TweetUp. You can read more here and here. It sure will.

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Questions Syllabus Instructors Curriculum 76

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2017

To help you make your decision, I want to share the most common questions I’ve gotten regarding sign ups: Q: What is the cost to register? If you’re looking for help specifically with using technology to add creativity and zing to your writing lessons, take Teach Writing with Tech. Click to view slideshow. And welcome!

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Questions Online Learning Learning Syllabus 79