With classes about to begin for a new semester at colleges and universities across the world, instructors and students are preparing for the common experience of the first day of class.
I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living crap out of my students.
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Recently, my family and I visited New Orleans where we enjoyed walking through its historical and distinct districts. We found ourselves in one area that was lined with antique shops on both sides of the street and that stretched for a few blocks.
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era for community college education, presenting both exciting possibilities and complex challenges. While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate.
If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. Unless you inherited your courses from someone else, you’ve developed lists of them. You’ve probably had to submit these lists to the administration to be reviewed and possibly revised.
The upcoming semester is looming like a deadline in the distance, slowly but surely creeping closer. But fear not! This year, you have a secret weapon in your back-to-school arsenal: AI. Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails.
To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia. My objective was to become more skilled in facilitating learning in the area of providing care for a variety of populations; in this case, those with psychiatric symptoms.
A new academic year is about to begin, and, well, there’s this course-maybe more than one-that you’re not exactly bristling with excitement to reach. What should you do?
From the initial job interview until the faculty portfolio is submitted, tenure-track professors shed the proverbial blood, sweat, and tears worrying they won’t make the grade.
