A Wish List for New Faculty
As the academic year begins, Karlyn Crowley, a university provost, offers some thoughts to professors at the start of their careers.
View ArticleWhy the Emotional Aspects of Learning Matter
Confronting our discomfort with learning’s affective domain will help us deal with the widespread hangover of the pandemic that remains a barrier to students’ classroom engagement, writes Angela Bauer.
View Article5 Touch Points Students Should Consider About AI
As the new academic year begins, we must rethink the issue and help students decide when programs like ChatGPT deserve a place in written work, writes Naomi S. Baron.
View Article3 Ways to Improve Student Group Work
Throwing students into groups without an accountability system rigs such work against them, writes Christina Katopodis, but we can transform it by thoughtfully structuring it in equitable ways.
View ArticleImproving Students’ Research Skills
Justin Robertson describes an experimental class project that introduced students to a new way of conducting interviews and applying what they learned.
View ArticleThe Question-Centered Course
It can remind students how the process of inquiry can be meaningful and enjoyable for its own sake, writes Andy Tix, and even help them determine their life direction.
View ArticleWhere Does the Thinking Happen?
Johann Neem explores why academe needs discipline-specific responses to ChatGPT.
View ArticleThe Trouble With AI Writing Detection
Elizabeth Steere recommends instructors be aware of the messages students are receiving and the types of tools they are using to rephrase AI-generated text.
View ArticleCredit Where Credit Is Due
David Galef explores the true motives of students asking for extra credit and the results of instructors giving it.
View ArticleYou Can’t Tell a Quilt by Its Cover
Laura Skandera Trombley reflects on the artful stitching together of a first-semester first-year seminar.
View ArticlePartnering to Train Ph.D.s to Teach
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Nicholas Papas describe the powerful synergy that can occur between scholarship-oriented students at universities and community college faculty with practical teaching...
View ArticleWe Are the Targets
Tamara Schwartz outlines how instructors can combat the information warfare that pervades society by teaching students information and disinformation literacy skills.
View ArticlePreparing for Weather Disasters
Matthea Marquart, Katherine Segal and Kelly Smith highlight questions faculty and administrators should consider to protect students and classes in extreme situations.
View ArticlePut Your Teaching Evaluations in a Jar
You can just ignore them, or you can take some positive steps to ensure that they will push you forward in your teaching, writes Constanza Bartholomae.
View ArticleStaged Assignments & Long-Ass Prompts
After years of trying to convince students it was in their best interest to start their research papers early, Zachary Nowak simply required them to.
View ArticleUsing AI to Help Students Teach in Order to Learn
By changing ChatGPT’s system prompt, we can create content misunderstandings that students can correct, write Joel Nishimura and Anna Cunningham.
View ArticleBeyond the Research
Michel Estefan offers a roadmap for helping graduate student instructors cultivate their distinct teaching style.
View ArticleWe See You, Student Parents
Alex Rockey recommends eight principles for transforming academic access for them through mobile-friendly courses.
View ArticleLosing Grace
As instructors, we can miss crucial things about the very students we don’t think we have to worry about, writes Rachel Toor.
View ArticleCredit Where Credit Is Due
David Galef explores the true motives of students asking for extra credit and the results of instructors giving it.
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