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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111 (2), 189. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. References Agarwal, P.

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Searching for the Optimal Class Design to Maximize Learning

Faculty Focus

Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? Educational Psychology Review 31, (2): 261-292. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Sweller, J., Van Merrinboer, J.

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Coursera Coach: Providing Essential Learner Support

Coursera blog

Creative approaches to technology-enhanced learning for the workplace and higher education. Journal of Educational Psychology , 107 (2), 468485. Urban, A.D. Closing the gender gap in STEM MOOCs through brief, novel interventions. Guralnick, M.E. Auer, & A. TLIC 2023 (pp. link] Walton, G. Spencer, S.

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Creating Connections: Team-Building Activities for the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

Options for creating virtual trivia games, both live and asynchronous, include Crowdpurr and Jackbox.tv , which both use mobile technology to create trivia games for participants. We have used Crowdpurr to create engagement and content interest among online learners.

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Creating Connections: Team-Building Activities for the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

Options for creating virtual trivia games, both live and asynchronous, include Crowdpurr and Jackbox.tv , which both use mobile technology to create trivia games for participants. We have used Crowdpurr to create engagement and content interest among online learners.

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Institute Uses AI to Promote Equity in STEM Education

Insight Into Diversity

The Inclusive Intelligent Technologies for Education (INVITE) Institute uses AI (artificial intelligence) technologies to make STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education more equitable in K-12 schools.

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

candidate in educational psychology at the University of Kansas and a lead researcher at Multistudio, a Kansas City, Mo.–based Researchers at the University of Minnesota found by 2010, for instance, that students in new, technology-enhanced learning spaces exceeded final grade expectations relative to their ACT scores.