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Leona Ungerer
April 2, 2021 6:29 AM
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"Embry-Riddle researchers have created a search engine to help professors identify whether course content has been “compromised” on Course Hero, creating ripe conditions for student cheating ..."
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Leona Ungerer
February 21, 2019 11:47 PM
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"To drive professors’ embrace of open educational resources, college leaders should offer incentives -- a share of the financial savings -- to academic departments, teaching centers and libraries, Chuck Staben suggests ..."
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Leona Ungerer
November 30, 2018 11:36 AM
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"Indiana University explores that question by bringing together tech partners and university leaders to share ideas on how to design classrooms that make better use of faculty and student time ..." ©
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Leona Ungerer
October 6, 2018 12:47 AM
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"Either individually or as a team, in their classes or as part of research projects, these professors, instructors and researchers are systematically testing artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching and learning, recording what worked and what did not work, and sharing their findings with their peers around the world ...." ©
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Leona Ungerer
September 24, 2018 2:11 AM
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"The academic year is just underway, and it’s already time to consider whether to go back on the faculty job market ..."
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Leona Ungerer
June 25, 2018 12:39 AM
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"Getting faculty on board with active learning is key to improving student outcomes, and incorporating these learning strategies requires buy-in from ..."
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Leona Ungerer
January 20, 2018 3:07 AM
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"Each year, graduate students and recent Ph.D.s brave crowds, weather, nerves and their bank accounts to travel to academic conferences for interviews. The experience is valuable in some respects -- especially if it leads to a job ..."
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Leona Ungerer
January 7, 2018 2:14 AM
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"In today's post we are sharing with you this collection of some excellent guides to help you with the teaching of writing and help your students improve their writing style ..."
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Leona Ungerer
November 5, 2017 10:57 PM
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"Only 1 in 10 institutions let their professors maintain sole ownership over their online courses. 41% allowed for joint ownership and about a third of universities claimed outright possession ..." ©
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Leona Ungerer
October 5, 2017 12:53 AM
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"Like most institutions, Harvard University -- ignoring its own business school’s predictions -- failed to get ready for the new digital economy, leaving it exposed to OPMs to fill the gap. Robert Ubell presents a cautionary tale ..." ©
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Leona Ungerer
August 9, 2017 2:22 PM
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"A report argues that those born after 1984 aren’t inherently better versed in technology. The author who coined the term “digital native” disagrees ..."
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Leona Ungerer
May 4, 2017 4:19 AM
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"They spend extended amounts of time together developing online courses. Sometimes, their relationship is filled with tension. Here are ways colleges and universities address and alleviate issues and promote collaboration ..." ©
"When we learn something outside the comfort zone, we attempt to acquire knowledge or skills in an area where we’re lacking. Part of the discomfort derives from learning something we anticipate will be difficult. We have no idea how to do it, or we think it requires abilities we don’t have or have in meager amounts ..."
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Leona Ungerer
October 27, 2019 12:28 AM
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"With thousands upon thousands of videos added to the service every hour, YouTube can be an unwieldy service to parse through for college professors looking for useful and applicable content. With that in mind, we decided to highlight the 10 best YouTube channels for college professors looking for an extra dose of material or inspiration ..."
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Leona Ungerer
February 20, 2019 12:46 PM
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"Bloom’s Taxonomy has long been regarded as the holy grail in leading students through a process of content mastery. Is it still the best model? ..."
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Leona Ungerer
November 27, 2018 2:37 AM
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"Four active learning trends being driven by the needs of professors. GUEST COLUMN | by Mike Silagadze Faculty members in higher education find themselves caught between two competing realities. On the one hand, colleges and universities have shifted focus and importance away from academic rigor and..."
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Leona Ungerer
September 26, 2018 2:28 AM
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"On a clear, warm night earlier this year, several dozen students at the University of California, Berkeley, folded themselves into gray chairs for a three-hour class on how to think like blockchain entrepreneurs. The evening’s challenge, presented by Berkeley city councilmember Ben Bartlett, was to brainstorm how blockchain technology might be used to alleviate the city’s growing homeless problem ..." ©
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Leona Ungerer
August 30, 2018 1:15 AM
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"Project to drive community colleges' use of open educational resources lowered student spending (even using a more conservative formula to judge those costs). But student awareness of the courses remains limited, and the path to sustainability is unclear ..."
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Leona Ungerer
June 2, 2018 12:09 AM
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"Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” ..."
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Leona Ungerer
January 10, 2018 11:56 AM
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"Faculty members struggle to find open educational resources or even understand what they are -- but solutions are bubbling up ...".
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Leona Ungerer
December 25, 2017 10:16 AM
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"Open education advocates have promoted renewable assignments as a way to create/update knowledge, enable faculty and students to impact society in significant ways, and foster student learning in more meaningful ways ..."
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Leona Ungerer
November 1, 2017 12:32 PM
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"Only one-fourth of faculty members responding to an Inside Higher Ed survey said they collaborate with designers on online course development. Experts say that low percentage is no surprise ..." ©
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Leona Ungerer
September 17, 2017 12:22 PM
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"A recurring narrative in educational technology is that students are driving the change. They are using the creative and collaborative opportunities offered by today's social media and demanding that universities and faculty do the same. .." ©
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Leona Ungerer
June 14, 2017 5:16 AM
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"Colleges’ ambitions for technology-enabled instruction have outstripped actual use, more because of practical impediments than philosophical ones, analysis suggests ...". ©
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Leona Ungerer
May 1, 2017 10:40 AM
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"If 60 full-time faculty members each retained one additional student per course who would have otherwise dropped out, the college could stand to gain an additional $1.6 million per year in revenue ..." ©
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