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Preparing to Teach

ActiveFlex: An Alternative to HyFlex

The Hyflex teaching model has been a polarizing concept since Brian Beatty introduced it at San Francisco State University. On the one hand, it offers students the flexibility to attend class in person or at a distance. On the other, many instructors who have tried

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Designing a Course for Socially Dependent Learning

We often think of learning in individualistic terms. The student cognizes in their brain and performs some solitary task to demonstrate learning. For this work, they receive an individual assessment. These assumptions and practices are common regardless of how student-centered the teacher is (Barr &

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RAFTing to an Engaging Assignment

An abundance of literature exists indicating that students are disengaged, unmotivated, and potentially downright bored in classes. Part of this disengagement may come from the seemingly unending essays and presentations students must complete to demonstrate their achievement of course and program learning outcomes. Incorporating fun

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Setting a Positive Tone Early in an Online Course

There can be a certain inertia to teaching online, especially asynchronously. You and your students never see each other, don’t feel very connected, and by the middle of the semester may have unintentionally begun a slow slide toward phoning it in.

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The Art of Reading the Classroom

“Who’s ready to read some poetry?”

My voice echoed off the beige walls, an octave too enthusiastic. None of my students so much as stirred in response: not a blink, not a fidget, not so much as an at-least-she’s-trying smile.

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First pages of Shakespeare's Macbeth

Course Design and the Importance of the Porter

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there is a scene that is sometimes deleted from productions, and the change in the audience’s behavior according to whether it is there or not can be noteworthy. At the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3, comes what is known as “The

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Assignments for Preparing Your Students for the AI Present

While many academics are still focused on keeping students away from artificial intelligence, others are preparing students to use AI in their current and future work. This means thinking about how IA is and will be used by our students, and crafting assignments that teach

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AI Lesson Development with Diffit

There are now AI resources to help instructors through all steps of lesson development, from crafting lesson outlines with ChatGPT to creating assessments with QuestionWell. Now Diffit has come along to provide a start-to-finish resource for creating lessons. While instructors are likely to edit the

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