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Machines Can Craft Essays. How Should Writing Be Taught Now?

Artificial intelligence can now produce prose that accomplishes the learning outcomes of a college writing assignment. What does that say about the assignment?
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Where’s the Wheat?

Regan A. R. Gurung advises how to identify effective educational research to improve your classroom teaching success.
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On Failing Organic Chemistry

Failing organic chemistry kept me from pursuing medicine and pushed me to pursue my passion for journalism. That may have been a good thing, Pamela Gwyn Kripke writes.
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AI-Generated Essays Are Nothing to Worry About

And coming to terms with “robot writing” might just improve writing instruction, S. Scott Graham writes.

How COVID Spurred Digital Innovation and Empathy

In the early pandemic, educators rallied to provide academic continuity in unprecedented ways. That spurred online teaching innovations, many of which are worth preserving and enhancing, a Stanford self-study says.

‘Did I Insult Them?’

A chemistry instructor at the University of California, San Diego, interrupted class last week to malign “Mexican” campus workers. He’s now suspended for the term, but this hasn’t satisfied everyone—if anyone.
Opinion

Should Professors Need a License to Teach?

Susan N. Kahn calls for higher standards for entry into college and university teaching.
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Critical Reading Skills: An Urgent Challenge

A focus on improving students’ critical reading skills, while essential, is missing from many conversations about student success, Alice S. Horning writes.