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Your prior learning on Coursera may help you complete your bachelor’s degree at UNT

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UNT’s 100% online Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (B.A.A.S.) Seamlessly transfer up to 84 credit hours —including prior learning on Coursera— to complete your degree faster The B.A.A.S. Named one of America’s Best College Buys® for 24 consecutive years, UNT is a flexible, affordable way to finish your degree.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. Overall, my top three recommended practices include: self-regulating strategies, video-based learning, and formative assessments.

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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Meaningful learning tasks are transformative and deep, and rooted in three key elements: emotional connection, sense, and significance (Barkley, 2010): Emotional connection.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. Overall, my top three recommended practices include: self-regulating strategies, video-based learning, and formative assessments.

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3 Questions on UT Austin’s New $10K Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation I’m totally psyched about the newly announced master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. When I heard about the MSAI degree, offered in partnership with edX (a 2U company), I knew I needed to learn more. Let me say that slowly.

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

These are positive developments from the perspective of groups such as the Association of American Universities and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which promote high-impact practices that increase student engagement and deep learning. Yet the growth of active learning spaces remains incremental.

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How to Combat the High Schoolization of the University

Inside Higher Ed

If a moral education strikes most faculty as inappropriate at liberal, secular institutions, are there pedagogies that we might use but don’t, to test student knowledge at a deep level or prompt their intellectual, social and moral growth? The catch: this can’t be done—at least not without cheating or bending the rules.