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The Provost stood up a committee in Spring 2023 to develop guidelines for the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) technologies, such as ChatGPT, in teaching at Cornell...
Here is a template for your day-by-day course schedule in Fall 2023 Please feel free to adapt the template to meet your own needs! We've already included key academic dates from...
You are invited to the Second Annual Cornell Engineering Teaching Day (ETD'23) on August 10, 2023 Please RSVP by August 8th This annual event, led by MTEI, celebrates the...
As the end of the semester approaches, students can often feel overwhelmed and may struggle in their courses Often, struggle is a normal part of the transition to college or an...
“Will this be on the exam” It’s a disheartening question to hear as a teacher — everything you teach is important, after all Eventually you write up a bulleted list of...
Here are some techniques for organizing your course Planning Schedule If you seek a simple, incremental way to improve your own course organization, try planning your course...
Sleep is essential for learning Our students need it, but often don’t get enough of it Maybe that’s true of us faculty, too Especially near the end of the semester, it’s...
The opportunity to ask questions of experts is one of the advantages of in-person instruction at Cornell But this is also a limited resource, especially in large classes How can...
At the start of the semester, your students are novices at solving the kinds of problems they will study in your course Research on problem solving shows that novices approach...
Students learn better when they feel they belong — they are more likely to persist and succeed Here's a summary of some pedagogical research on belonging, and some ideas to try...