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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Rossum’s Universal Robots) , where artificial beings, created to serve, ultimately undo their creators (apek, 1920/2004). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

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High Structure Course Design for Student Engagement, Retention, and Success: Changing Higher Ed podcast 264 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. Justin Shaffer

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Originally developed by researchers at the University of Washington, high structure course design introduces intentional scaffolding before, during, and after class. Teaching faculty are not just stopgaps—they’re often the most skilled instructors in the room, capable of transforming learning environments. It’s foundational.

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Microlectures 101: What, Why, & How?

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Scagnoli (2012) has identified several important benefits of microlectures for students: Microlectures allow for self-paced learning. In terms of benefits for faculty, microlectures encourage professors to break down concepts and explain them in a clear and concise fashion (Scagnoli, 2012). Why are microlectures beneficial?

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

This journey begins not only on the Martian surface but right here on Earth, in our universities. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012). Research suggests that high school and university students who employ interdisciplinary approaches tend to achieve as well or better academically (Campbell & Henning, 2010). 2017; Liu et al.,

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Microlectures 101: What, Why, & How?

Faculty Focus

Scagnoli (2012) has identified several important benefits of microlectures for students: Microlectures allow for self-paced learning. In terms of benefits for faculty, microlectures encourage professors to break down concepts and explain them in a clear and concise fashion (Scagnoli, 2012). Why are microlectures beneficial?

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Rossum’s Universal Robots) , where artificial beings, created to serve, ultimately undo their creators (apek, 1920/2004). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

article thumbnail

Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

This journey begins not only on the Martian surface but right here on Earth, in our universities. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012). Research suggests that high school and university students who employ interdisciplinary approaches tend to achieve as well or better academically (Campbell & Henning, 2010). 2017; Liu et al.,