Category: Teaching
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Spring 2025 Course Resource Form due Mon, October 27
Dear Faculty, The Spring Course Resource Request Form is due Monday, Oct 27, at 5pm. For your convenience, the PDF guide below lists the questions asked about your course materials, technology needs and learning assistant preferences for your course(s). Collecting this information is crucial for ensuring that the College is prepared to support your instruction next semester. It also enables students to access details…
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Use AI-Assisted Flash Debates to Engage Students
Guidance and Prompts for a More Fun, Active, and Sticky Learning Experience Adapted from “Use AI-Assisted Flash Debates to Engage Students” by Hussna Azamy, information sciences and technology instructor at George Mason University, United StatesFull article available here. One of my favorite ways to get students interacting both with the material and with each other is…
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AI for Student Engagement: Emerging Strategies
“This report offers a first comprehensive global review of AI in student engagement. Drawing on 106 case studies, it identifies 24 emerging methodologies across six engagement aspects: Each methodology is presented with practical guidance: implementation contexts, step-by-step applications, real-world examples, and observed impact. Grounded in global practice, this report provides institutions with a practical guide…
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Mid-Semester Student Feedback Questionnaire Ideas (Bowdoin instructors and others)
October and our upcoming fall break offer an opportunity to pause and think about what is working in our classes, and what small adjustments might support student learning for the months ahead. Seeking feedback from students, LAs, colleagues, and the BCLT can provide multiple sources of information to inspire our teaching practices between now and…
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How creating ways to meet students individually can help them buy into a course.
Full article available here. Excerpts below. … It’s important, Gurung has found, to make help available in a variety of ways, because not every student is the same, and because the communication habits of young adults keep evolving as the years go by. During class, Gurung circulates through the lecture-hall aisles and calls on students…