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Grading Group Projects Purpose: Group projects help build collaboration and communication skills, but grading them can bring unique challenges. How do you ensure grades are fair, reflect both group and individual effort, and encourage m...
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Oral Exams Purpose: With advances in generative AI, many instructors are rethinking how to assess learning authentically. Oral exams, once considered old-fashioned in some disciplines, are making a comeback for good reason. They allow i...
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Alternatives to Traditional Exams Purpose: Alternative assessments can foster deeper student engagement, real-world skill-building, and more accurate representations of what students know and can do, especially in the age of AI. To make...
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Authentic Assessments Purpose: Authentic assessments ask students to apply what they’ve learned in meaningful, discipline-specific contexts. These real-world tasks promote deeper engagement, critical thinking, and knowledge transfer bey...
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Grading at DCE Purpose: Grading helps students understand expectations, stay engaged, and reflect on their learning. Clear and consistent grading practices also support transparency, timely feedback, and workload management for instruct...
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Teaching International Students Purpose: International students enrich our classrooms with diverse perspectives, experiences, and questions—but they may also face unique challenges navigating new academic expectations. As an instructor,...
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Teaching a Multigenerational Classroom Purpose: Today’s classrooms may bring together secondary students, traditional-age undergraduates, and working adult learners with wide-ranging backgrounds, experiences, and goals. This diversity e...
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Teaching Undergraduates and Graduate Students Purpose: In some courses, it’s common to find both undergraduate and graduate students learning side by side. While this format offers opportunities for cross-level peer learning, it also p...
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Teaching Adult Learners Purpose: Harvard Division of Continuing Education (DCE) instructors teach non-traditional adult learners who often balance work, family, and academic goals. These learners bring a wealth of personal and professio...
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Transparent Teaching Purpose: Transparent Teaching is a framework created at Harvard, which can be used to design clearer assignments and make learning processes explicit and accessible for all students. Transparent assignment design ...