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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Faculty Development and GenAI Playbook: Evidence-based Best Practices https://www.everylearnereverywhere.org/resources/faculty-development-and-gen-ai-playbook/
#EdDev #AIEd

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Faculty Development and Gen AI Playbook - Every Learner Everywhere

This playbook provides strategies for faculty development to develop effective and valuable programming around GenAI.
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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

A few recent open ebooks:
* Inclusive Teaching Online: Evidence-Based Strategies to Support #StudentSuccess in #HigherEd https://open.oregonstate.education/teachingonline/
* Advancing #Accessibility: Practical Strategies for Instructional Designers and Educators https://edtechbooks.org/accessibility
* #AILiteracy for Career & College Success https://pressbooks.montgomerycollege.edu/ailit/
* Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection https://leeds.pressbooks.pub/learningwithai/
#EdDev #OnlineTeaching #AIEd

Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection

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Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection – Simple Book Publishing
AI Literacy for Career & College Success

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AI Literacy for Career & College Success – Simple Book Publishing

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Inclusive Teaching Online

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Inclusive Teaching Online addresses the complexities of teaching diverse and nontraditional adult students in asynchronous online environments. Centered in evidence-based approaches for creating welcoming, engaging, and supportive classrooms, this text illustrates what inclusive online teaching looks like across disciplines. The heart of the book is a tool kit of facilitation strategies, including instructor self-introductions, tactics for getting to know students, forging connections, and fostering belonging. It also offers advice on challenging aspects such as facilitating discussions or teaching social justice themes.
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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Asset-based Approaches to Student Success
https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/asset/
In the past, I’ve shared strategies that have been shown to improve #StudentSuccess, but none of those are effective if we or our students have a fixed mindset (belief that intelligence is fixed) or deficit thinking (focusing on what students lack instead of what they bring to the table). The alternatives are growth mindset (intelligence can grow with effort) and asset-based approaches).
#EdDev #HigherEd #Teaching #EdReform

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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Teaching Tips: The First Major Exam or Assignment
https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/first-exam/
A sampling of some research-based practices you may find useful for before, during, and after your first major assessment to improve student success and help struggling students turn things around afterward.
#EdDev #Teaching #HigherEd #StudentSuccess

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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Advancements in astronomy education research: Two decades of progress with undergraduate and adult learners
https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/jp2p-97jb
#Astronomy#PhysicsEd#STEMeducation#DBER#EdDev#ActiveLearning#Teaching

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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Strong claim from a recent article on using AI to evaluate teaching: "AI evaluation removes human bias in teaching assessment" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X25000888
Sort of ironically, I asked AI to evaluate this claim. Gemini 2.5: this is an overstatement, but AI may serve as a "complementary component within a comprehensive, multi-method evaluation framework." https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V0PiO97GgCtLrqnhLlfo1PS7U5sD4kLbl04oPM7Z4aY/edit?usp=sharing
ChatGPT 4.1: The claim is "misleading in its absoluteness" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p_69vnJnxYyGxGrEMD1BYwahbDGzqMJz/view?usp=sharing
#AIEd #EdDev #Teaching

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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

“The Ones that Care Make all the Difference”: Perspectives on Student-Faculty Relationships
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-020-09522-w
"We identified four themes for faculty practices: (1) Creating Pedagogical Space, (2) Being Inclusive and Aware, (3) Being Engaged and Engaging Students, (4) Doing More Than Teaching."
#EdDev#Teaching#HigherEd#EdReseach

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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Professors at Play https://professorsatplay.org/ has 3 free #ebooks on incorporating games into your 1) #Teaching https://professorsatplay.org/playbook/
2) #OnlineTeaching https://professorsatplay.org/professors-at-play-online-playbook/ and
3) and #AI ideas https://professorsatplay.org/ai-playbook/
#EdDev #EdTech #AIEd

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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

The promise of mastery-based testing for promoting student engagement, self-regulated learning, and performance in gateway STEM courses https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131525001551
Used the OLI chemistry course https://oli.cmu.edu/courses/general-chemistry-1-open-free/
"With mastery-based testing, students chose to repeat exams when they struggled.
Repeating tests was linked to an increase in use of online study resources.
Repeating tests was linked to higher final exam grades, especially for first-gen students."
#STEMeducation#EdDev#EdTech

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Doug Holton
@dougholton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Testing out a #DeepResearch tool on the topic of: Research-Based #Teaching Techniques for Improving Student Retention in Online Courses
https://www.opendeepresearch.dev/chat/OSVutEomBXzjwqpga5oNA
Here are also links to NotebookLM summaries and a podcast version:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/108hIAj_SRPKv68PANTc_J41vh-3Q8WMlttfjao7aj4k/edit?usp=drivesdk
Not a bad job although it's a bit short and doesn't provide specific examples and is a bit out of date (flipgrid no longer exists). Doesn't mention most of the techniques I list here: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/3168265
#AIEd#EdDev#EdTech#OnlineTeaching

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