#eddev — Public Fediverse posts

Enhancing learner-centered feedback with AI: teachers’ practices and perceptions
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02602938.2026.2638920
"teachers valued GenAI for identifying missing components, improving language and structure, and promoting reflection, while also noting concerns about tone, trust, and the need for human editing"
#AIEd #EdDev #Teaching

Making Equity-Based Teaching the New Norm Through Institutional Transformation https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00091383.2026.2657777
More info at: https://bettercollegeteaching.org/
#EdDev #Equity #Teaching #HigherEd

Open Educational Resources: A New High-Impact Practice https://www.aacu.org/research/open-education-resources-a-new-high-impact-practice
Key findings from adopting #OER: lower course withdrawal rates, improved time-to-completion, improved student success among populations historically underserved by higher education, with benefits extending beyond affordability to student engagement, persistence, and success.
#OpenEducation #HIP #EdDev #Teaching #HigherEducation

The Impact of Active Learning on Student Course Performance in STEM Varies by Type and Intensity: A Meta-Analysis https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/16/7/1044
"active learning’s impact on low-income and underrepresented minority students showed that achievement gaps in both exam scores and failure rates only closed in course designs where more than 66% of class time was spent in active learning"
#ActiveLearning #Teaching #STEMeducation #EdDev

Active Learning Through Flexible Collaborative Exams: Improving STEM Assessments https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01994
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Two-Stage Final Exams: An Assessment Strategy for Enhanced Collaborative Learning and Reduced Student Stress https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0047231X.2026.2620442
#STEMeducation #Teaching #EdDev

Examples of self-reported measures not correlated w/more objective measures * #AILiteracy arxiv.org/abs/2601.06101 * #ProfDev academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... * #AI offloading www.goedel.io/p/the-machin... * #Teaching www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... * #Learning link.springer.com/article/10.1... #EdDev

How to Assess AI Literacy: Mis...

Self-reported measures (surveys) are often not correlated or even negatively correlated w/more objective measures (such as observations, scenario/performance assessments). Examples:
* Teacher AI literacy https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06101
* Applying professional development to the classroom https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-abstract/61/7/550/266257
* AI cognitive offloading https://www.goedel.io/p/the-machine-that-stops-you-from-thinking
* Student learning from teaching https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821936116
* And grades https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-023-09819-0
* TPACK https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/bhqxp_v2
#EdDev #AIEd

Equitable Group Work in Undergraduate Biology Courses: Leveraging a Complex Instruction Framework to Identify Pedagogical Strategies
https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.25-07-0154
#Teaching #EdDev #STEMeducation

Free #Ebook: ABC Learning Design: Active, blended, connected and beyond
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/abc-learning-design/
More info & resources: https://abc-ld.org/
#LearningDesign #OpenAccess #EdDev

"AI petting zoo" resources for instructors: https://liascript.github.io/course/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edtechdev/aipettingzoo/master/README.md#1
#EdTech #AIEd #EdDev

Designing for Authentic Assessment: A Scoping Review https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-025-01588-9
#Teaching #Assessment #EdDev

Summary of efforts to reform how college teaching is evaluated https://engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/a-practical-guide-to-modern-teaching-evaluation?publication_id=2871860&post_id=186426333
See the TEval project for some best practices: https://teval.net/
But also this 6-year old google doc that already had over 100 references about bias in student evaluations of teaching: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14JiF-fT--F3Qaefjv2jMRFRWUS8TaaT9JjbYke1fgxE/edit?tab=t.0
#EdDev #Teaching #HigherEd #HigherEdReform

A Scalable, Theory-Based Intervention to Influence Teachers' Student Engagement Practices Improves Academic Performance in a State-Wide Sample https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398587877_A_Scalable_Theory-Based_Intervention_to_Influence_Teachers'_Student_Engagement_Practices_Improves_Academic_Performance_in_a_State-Wide_Sample
More about FUSE (Fellowship Using the Science of Engagement): https://fuse.prc.utexas.edu/
#EdDev #EdPsy #Teaching

AI Literacy Across the Curriculum
https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/ailiteracy/
Mastering #AILiteracy or indeed any literacy is also not something that can be done in a single lesson or even a single course, but is instead better distributed throughout students’ education (see for example Writing Across the Curriculum)
#AIEd #EdDev #StudentSuccess

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

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

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

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

Advancements in astronomy education research: Two decades of progress with undergraduate and adult learners journals.aps.org/prper/abstra... #Astronomy #PhysicsEd #STEMeducation #DBER #EdDev #ActiveLearning #Teaching

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

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

“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

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

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

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

Building Students’ Confidence and Learning Skills in Online Classes: Lessons from the Postsecondary Collaborative (slides and paper) https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/presentation/building-students-confidence-learning-skills.html
"the Collaborative identified three interventions instructors can embed in their online classrooms: videos, prompts, and student–peer interaction networks"
#OnlineLearning #OnlineTeaching #EdDev #StudentSuccess #HigherEd

Students Don't Learn the Way They Think They Do in a Large, #ActiveLearning Genetics Course
https://www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10.1187/cbe.24-10-0251
"students exhibited larger learning gains from prediction activities compared with worked examples or tell-then-practice activities, as evidenced by a course pretest/posttest"
#STEMeducation #BiologyEducation #Teaching #EdDev #InquiryBasedLearning #EvidenceBasedTeaching

The Student Experience Project (SEP) Resource Hub draws on social belonging and learning mindset research to develop practical approaches campuses can use to bolster student engagement, increase equity in academic outcomes, and support student success.
https://studentexperienceproject.org/resources/
#StudentSuccess #EdDev #Teaching #Mindset

The free and virtual Peralta Equity Conference is happening now: https://sites.google.com/view/peraltaequityconference/home
Session recordings:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6dbv_ZRJJb4rcMym_9YI5jNfvCEQ5Du
The Florida #OER Summit is next month: https://www.flvc.org/oersummit
#EdDev #Equity #Peralta #OnlineTeaching

The Transformational Power of Incorporating #EvidenceBasedTeaching Practices
https://www.everylearnereverywhere.org/blog/the-transformational-power-of-incorporating-evidence-based-teaching-practices/
More on Digitally-Enabled, Evidence-Based Teaching Practices
https://transformlearning.everylearnereverywhere.org/
& Project EMBER https://www.tpsemath.org/projectember
#EdDev #Teaching