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Nov. 30, 2023
Teaching: Practical AI strategies for the classroom
At a recent conference, teaching experts shared ideas on adding generative AI to your toolkit. -
Nov. 16, 2023
Navigating Conduct Challenges in Class
One university created a workshop to help faculty members minimize conflict over everything from aggressive emails to rude behavior. -
Nov. 9, 2023
How to Hold Difficult Discussions Online
A syllabus statement, an online tool, and other ideas for setting students up for success. -
Nov. 2, 2023
What Happens to Teaching After Covid?
A new book examines how the pandemic will continue to shape teaching for years to come. -
Oct. 26, 2023
What’s the Best Way to Frame Test Questions?
New research examines whether framing around a real, named scientist, a classmate, or “you” affects students’ performance and science identity. -
Oct. 19, 2023
What Will Higher Ed’s Online Future Look Like?
Surveys show a growing interest in blended and online teaching, but instructors want more support to do it well. -
Oct. 12, 2023
How Do Students Want Instructors to Relate to Them?
A professor working on a book about ballet pedagogies asked them. Here’s what she learned — and how it applies to higher ed. -
Oct. 5, 2023
How to Help Students Better Understand Generative AI
Whether it’s to show students how ChatGPT fails or where it can succeed, professors are trying new assignments this semester to support AI literacy. -
Sept. 28, 2023
What Nourishes Students’ Minds?
Professors and the courses they teach are integral to student success — but they’re often sidelined. -
Sept. 21, 2023
Want Your Students to Be Skeptical of ChatGPT? Try This.
An instructor describes how his writing students reacted after he had them use AI to write an essay.