Flower Darby is an associate director of the Teaching for Learning Center at the University of Missouri at Columbia and co-author of The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching, published in March 2023. Find her here on LinkedIn.
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Getting academics to teach with tools like ChatGPT is proving to be a tough nut to crack.
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How to find meaning, purpose, and even a little joy in your asynchronous courses.
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How to teach with AI tools in ways that meet faculty concerns about ethics and equity.
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Why you should understand how to teach with AI tools — even if you have no plans to actually use them.
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Here’s what students hope you’ll keep doing in the fall — and what they hope you’ll drop.
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What can you do this semester to protect your well-being and support your students?
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What can you do to promote academic integrity in your virtual classroom without joining the “arms race” in cheating-prevention tools?
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Six ways to lead meaningful class discussions in an asynchronous online forum.
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How do you create online or hybrid courses with an ethos of inclusion and equity embedded throughout?
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In remote teaching, it’s easy to forget that students are real people. Here’s why connecting early and often with them is vital, and how to do it.