Watch this on how to make your next semester less stressful
Ever feel anxious about adapting your curriculum on the fly to accommodate students who learn differently? Do you experience burn out at the end of a semester after having to…
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Does Emerson College Have Access to Plagiarism or AI Detection Software?
We get this question a lot, and the answer is no. For AI detection, the depressing thing is that there are lots of people who are eager to make money…
How to Stump AI with an Original Essay Question
They say that AI struggles with understanding complex concepts or providing original insights, but so do students. How do you tell them apart? While many readers are now intuitively picking…
Diane Mermigas on Covid-Era Teaching & Learning: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t, & Where Do We Go From Here?
At the conclusion of the Fall 2021 semester, we sat down with Diane Mermigas (Affiliated Faculty, Journalism Department) to discuss her transition back to teaching in-person, as well as just how transformative the pandemic has been for her courses and higher education on the whole.
Building an Escape Room With Google Forms
The adventure continues! Back in August, I wrote a post comparing course design to Dungeons & Dragons and promised to share some tools and ideas for gamified activities you can…
How to Run Your Course Like a Game of Dungeons & Dragons
What does Dungeons & Dragons have in common with course design? More than you’d think. Role-playing games like D&D involve a group of distractible adventurers telling a story together with…