Exploring Extra Credit
Extra credit can be an overused classroom tool. As a learner, I always viewed extra credit as teachers bribing students
Kara Coleman
October 5, 2020
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Higher education is using AI for two purposes: first, to improve instruction via systems like AI tutors and simulations, and second, to teach students the AI skills that
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Every semester, instructors hear some version of the same concern: “Students don’t have the attention spans they used to.”
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“As with menu expectations, students enter with beliefs and norms about learning. Some may view the educational process transactionally, with a focus on content. Their prior experiences may mean they expect lectures. Students may have deeply ingrained views about what it means to learn. They most surely have beliefs about themselves as learners. What happens when students’ instructional expectations or norms are violated?”
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