In building an atmosphere of trust between instructors and students, it is vital to set clear expectations. Research bears this out: a 2025 survey of students carried out by Inside Higher Ed found that 34% of respondents considered “clear, consistent expectations” to be a priority in building classroom trust. But how to achieve this goal? It begins, as with so much else in the classroom experience, with the syllabus.| Academic Technology Solutions
If you’re looking for a seamless way to track class attendance while enhancing student engagement, Poll Everywhere offers robust features specifically designed for higher education environments. We have outlined several strategies you can use with Poll Everywhere to streamline attendance tracking. Poll Everywhere allows you to take attendance during live sessions by recording student responses. […]| Academic Technology Solutions
Educational institutions are spaces for learning, but more specifically, they are spaces for social learning. And so our role as educators and administrators of educational institutions has to be focused on building community in addition to offering courses, designing curriculum, and credentialing.| Jesse Stommel
This post is the first in a projected three-part series exploring innovative use of podcasting in the classroom by UChicago faculty and instructors. Parts two and three are forthcoming.| Academic Technology Solutions
Education is Over. Adapt or Die is your tactical field guide for surviving the AI revolution in learning. Written by educator and systems thinker Graeme Smith, this bold manifesto breaks down how AI is dismantling traditional education—and what smart educators must do to thrive. Discover how to automate the boring, elevate the human, and lead the learning future. This isn’t reform. It’s ignition. Whether you’re a teacher, trainer, or trailblazer, this book will help you evolve—or ri...| 🌀thisisGRAEME
The current big news on ChatGPT is around the decisions by K-12 school districts to pause, think, push back and sometimes “ban” ChatGPT. I’ve mostly…| Is a Liminal Space
Even a system that invites subversiveness, like Domain of One's Own, can't single-handedly dismantle the institutionalized hierarchies of education.| Jesse Stommel
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