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Success in the Classroom: Leading a Diverse Student Body 

Faculty Focus

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom. And Mittelmeier et al.,

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Success in the Classroom: Leading a Diverse Student Body 

Faculty Focus

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom. And Mittelmeier et al.,

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There’s a Hidden Equity Issue in Education. Here’s How Colleges Can Address It.

University Business

The sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made digital literacy more urgent than ever on college campuses. Researchers call this phenomenon the digital divide, and college administrators striving for greater equity have a responsibility to take it seriously. . Expand the communication conversation beyond English and the humanities .

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. And while my educational home is in the humanities, this pedagogical approach is applicable across all disciplines. Perhaps there is an assumption that students have outgrown the frivolity of play. Though anecdotal, these results are hopeful to me.

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. And while my educational home is in the humanities, this pedagogical approach is applicable across all disciplines. Perhaps there is an assumption that students have outgrown the frivolity of play. Though anecdotal, these results are hopeful to me.

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Is AI the New Homework Machine? Understanding AI and Its Impact on Higher EducationIs AI the New Homework Machine?

WCET Frontiers

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence group defines artificial intelligence as “a term coined by emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.’ Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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Toward a Sector-Wide AI Tutor R&D Program

eLiterate

It’s hard-wired into humans. In a recent keynote on AI and durable skills, I argued that our tendency to teach and learn from each other through communications and transportation technologies formed the engine of human civilization’s advancement. Working at design time also puts a human in the loop.