Quizzes Syllabus Textbooks 
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
The Syllabus Gets a Facelift. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus. In many ways, the traditional syllabus places restrictions on when, what and how students will learn.
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. /
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Edsurge
MARCH 28, 2018
Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. Now it’s my job.” But those materials were not ideal.
Edsurge
AUGUST 1, 2017
Is that a real A, or an A based on turning in the syllabus? It’s a student response system that allows teachers to make quizzes that students can take on their device. And even when we do poorly on our Socrative quizzes, we can take solace in knowing, as does Socrates, that “true knowledge exists in knowing that we know nothing.”.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. Is a ‘desk scan’ necessary for a syllabus quiz? That’s ridiculous,” he says.
Edsurge
MARCH 11, 2019
When forced to redesign his course, Robertson saw an opportunity to move toward a curriculum that offered more flexibility than his linear syllabus ever could. In this system, students choose from a menu of content delivery options (textbook, downloadable study guides, lectures) and interaction options (in-person or online).
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 15, 2022
This is not the kind of refresh that comes from revising a syllabus, choosing a new textbook, or working out the details of a group project. I think colleagues can refresh each other but not with complaint-filled conversations or exchanges focused on ways to quickly grade quizzes or enrich online discussions.
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