AI can be used as a thought partner for teachers to create assignments. As a college professor, trying to get students excited about the work I have to grade later can be one of the more frustrating ...

Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

In higher education, particularly with my graduate students, students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking holistically at the ...

Release conditions can be applied to various content items and activities within Brightspace. When a release condition is applied to an item, students are unable to see the item until they meet the ...

Professor Johnson teaches a Nursing course that has several assignments in which students answer questions on a worksheet. As a Miami instructor, Professor Johnson has access to a Google Drive account ...

Many instructors approach assignment design with a "product" focus—that is to say, the choices they make about their assignments (frequency; genre; difficulty; grading scheme; etc.) are oriented ...

With the rapid growth of distance learning technologies over the past decade, education has become available to more students than ever. More than 6.3 million American students took at least one ...

Assignments: Make Them Effective, Engaging, and Equitable. At their best, assignments are one of the most important learning experiences for students in a course. Students grapple with course content, ...