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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. But others asked her not to do that because that policy is tilted against those who get sick or have a good excuse to miss class. And surveys back that up.

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Does alternative grading make cheating more likely?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

If students are allowed reassessments, for example, does it open the door for dishonesty -- especially if the reassessments are coupled with flexible turn-in or deadline policies, or done outside of class time? The first half is a brief survey of years of research literature on academic motivation and academic dishonesty.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ProPublica : “Another Unrealistic Trump Policy Proposal: Homeschool Vouchers.” ” Libertarian (and longshot) presidential hopeful Gary Johnson says his education policy proposals would involve scrapping the Department of Education. Via Buzzfeed : “ Clinton Touts Plan That Would Make College Free For Most.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. 3D Printing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Foxx , a North Carolina Republican who just won election to her seventh term in Congress, was named on Friday as the new chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce , the main policy-making panel for higher education in the chamber.” ” In a move that should surprise no one, Jeb Bush has joined a lobbying firm.