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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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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

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Encourage Faculty-Student Engagement Outside the Classroom: Encouraging faculty to engage with students outside the classroom through office hours, mentoring programs, and informal interactions can significantly enhance student-faculty relationships and foster a sense of belonging. ” San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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Running a Workshop: Guidelines for Engagement and Impact

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Principle 4: Think in units of three: Explain: Walk the participants through a relatively small piece of information or skill, perhaps (as relevant) providing a model or example that participants can build from. Each insight should be a new contribution to the class reflections rather than the same repetitive information.

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Supporting the Instructional Design Process: Stress-Testing Assignments with AI

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Despite our best intentions, we may not provide enough information, or we fail to anticipate a blind spot that leads students down fruitless paths. First, provide the AI with information about your course and key characteristics of your student population. The basic approach works like this. Then, share the assignment prompt.

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When Inclusion Gets Complicated: What Faculty Need to Know About Service Dogs in Higher Ed

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Joey has launched her own consulting business, advocating for policy reform and helping institutions develop inclusive practices for service dog users. She receives inquiries from students and faculty across the globe and regularly gives talks to universities about navigating accessibility in research environments.

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Care for Faculty in Challenging Times: Considerations for Exploring Hope and Healing

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We believe many faculty have not had the time, space, or support to process feelings of grief and loss. For faculty developers and faculty seeking support, what does care look like during these desperate times?

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

Faculty Focus

In turn, we can immediately utilize new information to further our faculty assessment reports, professional development, academic writings, and research publication. If we teach who we are, the circular model of reflection can inform us for our espoused theory (i.e. New York: Teachers Press, Columbia University.

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