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October 2024

Grading and Feedback

Embracing Uncertainty: The Important of Context, Choice, and Connection
Voice Cloning for Education

October 28, 2024 | By John Orlando

Seven Simple Strategies to Increase Student Engagement and Learning
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Do people learn in the same way or different ways? According to cognitive science, the answer is the former. There are general principles of learning that apply to
When watching a movie, you might use the first few minutes to decide whether you will like it or not. This same phenomenon also happens in the classroom:
Instructors in face-to-face courses can roughly gauge how well students understand the material by facial expressions and audience response systems. This immediate and informal feedback enables them to
My mother was not your typical 1990s Beanie Babies collector. She didn’t care whether the little pellet-filled critters that she scavenged for at flea markets and rummage sales
As educators, we’re all deeply invested in our students’ learning journeys. We’ve likely all experienced the challenges of assessing performance in ways that genuinely reflect what students know
Students generally come into an online class from a background of face-to-face education, and this background often creates expectations that cause students problems in an online class. For
A common piece of teaching advice—“Teach them like they are your own children”—takes on new meaning when a close friend’s children, one of your relatives, or your own
I am a political science professor. And we are in the middle of a hotly contested presidential election campaign. My classes are going about how you’d imagine: students
Many research studies have underscored the importance of teaching presence in asynchronous online courses, with the benefits including higher student satisfaction, reduced isolation, and enhanced emotional engagement (Oyarzun

“Feedback must become a basic component of course design. Since grading drains the teacher’s time to design assignments, monitor results, and make improvements, its importance must be downgraded. Ultimately instructors can best aid the feedback process by designing assignments with clear, relevant objectives, and redesign them in light of students’ learning. That requires sophisticated disciplinary knowledge and knowledge about the biological and psychological processes of learning. All that’s demanding, but the acquisition and correction of such knowledge is the exciting intellectual core of teaching.

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