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    How to ‘Write Like You Teach’
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    Do Students Evaluate Their Courses Too Early?
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    AI and Microcredentials
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    Can AI Improve Creative Writing? A Small Study Investigates.
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    How Pleasure Might Help Us Cultivate a ‘Learning Society’
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    Your Students Need an AI-Aware Professor
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    Is Your Online Student a Bot?
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    Helping Students Become ‘Experts at Practicing’

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    Using Peer Networks to Integrate AI Literacy Into Liberal Arts
    How one college is using grassroots support to help professors experiment with AI.
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    Can Colleges Truly Teach ‘Skills’ to Students?
    An expert explains why common notions about critical-thinking and communication skills so often fall short.
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    What Can You Do When Students Won’t Read?
    A first-year seminar instructor describes how she involved her students in adjusting her plans for the course.

    Teaching Gen Z

    They face a scary future. They tend to be risk averse, and distrustful of administrators and faculty members. Colleges that help these students feel connected — with professors, peers, and a sense of meaning — will flourish, and contribute to a thriving society.
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    Codes of Conduct
    Cheating Has Become Normal
    By Beth McMurtrie November 4, 2024
    Faculty members are overwhelmed, and the solutions aren’t clear.
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    Supportive Strategies
    Why Students Can’t Work on Their Own
    Many struggle to complete coursework independently. How can professors adjust?
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    Kids These Days
    How Changes in K-12 Schooling Hampered the Preparation of College Students
    Accountability and test-based reforms, pandemic-era disruptions, and larger social and economic pressures have fostered ineffective habits.