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How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge. Also review situations and/or results in class that apply to all the groups efforts.

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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead

Faculty Focus

Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic. After exploring the paradox, I now say, “Here’s one way to look at it.” That shift— one way—keeps the door open. Make it messy.

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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead

Faculty Focus

Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic. After exploring the paradox, I now say, “Here’s one way to look at it.” That shift— one way—keeps the door open. Make it messy.

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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

Cal Matters

She became one of the first Turnitin users at the large community college north of Los Angeles, testing out the software before campuswide adoption. The rise of Turnitin In 2004 Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, a photography professor at College of the Canyons, chaired her campus’s technology committee.

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Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey

Edsurge

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.

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5 science lessons that foster students’ social-emotional growth

eSchool News

But lessons on social-emotional learning aren’t typically found in a classroom syllabus. Students learn not only how to light the light bulb, then use that knowledge to design, build and test a flashlight within set criteria and constraints. So, how do we as educators actively foster these qualities in our students?

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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

eSchool News

Between budgetary constraints, bandwidth crunches, and a constantly changing syllabus, teachers have their hands full when it comes to structuring and building their class’s lessons and lectures. This provides teachers with a greater degree of freedom, both over the output and the extent of coverage.

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