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Linked Together: The Benefits of Integrative Teaching in the Liberal Arts

The goal of a liberal arts education at the college level is to imbue students with a broad education that allows them to think critically, communicate clearly, and problem-solve from various perspectives. As part of the foundation of their liberal arts education, students take courses

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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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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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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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Affordances and Constraints in Teaching

The first summer job I ever had was mowing lawns. Back then (this was the ’70s), I would start the power mower, and the blade kept spinning until I turned the mower off. I learned quickly to pull the mower up a slope and not

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