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There is an elusive win-win in teaching in which both teachers and students truly enjoy a class together. The teachers find pleasure and satisfaction in educating students, and
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Every teacher knows the challenge: Students complete homework at 9:00 p.m., get stuck, and have to wait until the next day’s class for help. By then, you're facing
“I spent hours on the Gulliver’s Travels reading—yes, hours—and I still didn’t get through the Lilliput section!” my student, Sarah, bemoaned after class one morning. I asked her
Faculty training in higher education often emphasizes verbal participation as the primary indicator of student engagement. In graduate preparation, instructors learn to value quick interaction, frequent discussion, and
Instructors and students waste many hours struggling to get what they want out of an AI chatbot due to a lack of understanding of prompt engineering. With AI
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Last year I added an assignment to an online aging and end-of-life transitions course I had taught multiple times. The assignment, which became the first in the course,
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“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves. And in doing that, he or she lives the experience of relating democratically as authority with the freedom of students.”

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