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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If your assignments require students to find, evaluate or use information sources of any kind, the cadence of the following instructions might feel familiar. “Write a five-page paper and use three ...

Since the latest version of ChatGPT emerged late last year, educators have been puzzling over how to reconcile traditional writing instruction with tech that can churn out everything from essays to ...

It is good teaching practice to be clear and transparent about the purpose, task, and criteria for assignments and learning activities. This includes communicating with students about what is and is ...

There is a belief among many university faculty and administrators that to serve multilingual students well, we need to design our curriculum and pedagogy for them as a special case. Although it seems ...

OpenAI has recently unveiled more than 50 detailed, real-world examples showing how students, particularly those at the ...

For decades, the Jim Vlock First Year Building Project has offered students at the Yale School of Architecture the opportunity to design and build a house in New Haven, creating badly needed homes for ...