For psychology professor Stephen Blessing AI use in the classroom seemed a given. Having worked with AI in education since the 90s, his goal remains the same: to ensure AI made students more active with their learning, not less. Read how you can use the latest tool in your educator toolbox.
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How Personalizing Assessments Can Elevate Learning
When we design assignments that require a student’s unique lived experience, specific local context, and distinct cognitive process, we do more than just "AI-proof" our assessments—we create deeper, more meaningful learning experiences.
Students Decide Whether They Belong Earlier than You Think: Three Research-Informed Ways to Foster Academic Belonging from Day One
Strengthening academic belonging among your students early in the semester shapes not only how they experience your course, but how they see themselves as learners. Research professor and author Isis Artze-Vega, Ed.D. highlights three research-informed changes you can make to your classroom.
Your Syllabus in the Age of AI: A Practical Guide for Instructors
If you have spent time wondering how to write an AI policy for your syllabus, you are not alone. Generative AI has moved faster than most course design cycles, and many of us are being asked to make high-stakes decisions about tools that are rapidly changing and that our students are already actively using. In this fast-changing environment, the syllabus matters more than ever.
Demonstrating a Growth Mindset in a Prison Education Writing Course
Rhetoric and Composition professor Jule Thomas understands that the path to learning isn’t always easy, equitable, or traditional. She reflects on her experience teaching incarcerated students and reexamining her own biases. Read how you can adapt to unique teaching environments and find new ways to connect with your students.
AI as a Thinking Partner, Not a Crutch: Designing Assignments That Actually Make Students Struggle (in a Good Way)
A few months ago, I asked a room full of faculty a simple question: If AI can complete the assignment, what exactly are students learning by completing it? The room got quiet. Not because the answer was obvious, but because many of us are wrestling with the same tension.
3 Ways to Make the Most of Your Time This School Year
Laura Vanderkam is the author of seven time-management books, including Norton’s Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance, as well as the host of two podcasts. The start of the school year can always make time feel crunched. You may be juggling new courses and new expectations alongside deadlines and a lingering sense that there’s always more you could be doing. …
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Teaching on the Tenure Track: How to Ace Lesson Prep
Balancing planning, grading, and teaching while securing tenure isn’t easy. Kelsi G. Hobbs, assistant professor of economics at the University of Maine, shares how the right textbook resources are foundational in creating a strong course, allowing you to dedicate more time to research, service, and other projects.
Learning to Teach on the Fly: Tips for First-Time Instructors
Adronisha Frazier teaches medical microbiology and biology lecture and lab courses at San Joaquin Delta College. She works closely with colleagues to mentor, teach, and support a diverse student population in earning credentials and transferring to 4-year institutions.
Care as Structure, not Sacrifice: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Care in Higher Education
Milton W. Wendland (JD, PhD) is a professor of instruction in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of South Florida, where he specializes in equitable and inclusive online education. In the wake of COVID-19, a pedagogy of care has emerged as a central organizing framework in conversations about teaching and learning in higher education, appearing in practice as flexible deadlines, expanded …