Teaching Week
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Simpler. Faster. More Efficient. PCC’s Revised Accommodation Process
- Learn how PCC's revised accommodation process in the AIM portal helps faculty save time, manage flex plans, and streamline testing setups efficiently. Posted September 12, 2026
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Comprehensively Assess Student Achievement of Course, Discipline/ Program, and Gen Ed Outcomes Using RCampus Software
- Learn how Portland Community College is integrating Our Campus software with D2L Brightspace to streamline learning outcomes assessment, flexible rubric design, and data-driven continuous improvement. Posted September 12, 2026
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Confidently Wrong: Why AI Hallucinates and How Students Can Navigate It
- An overview of why generative AI tools hallucinate, how latent space works, and practical strategies for students and faculty to fact-check AI-generated content. Posted September 12, 2026
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Learning Assessment for CTE Disciplines: Assessing Student Achievement Through a Software-assisted Competency-based Approach and Beyond
- Learn how PCC is using OurCampus software to support competency-based education, align curriculum rubrics with accreditation standards, and track CTE student achievement. Posted September 9, 2026
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Trauma Informed Approaches (TIA) in Higher Education
- Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) equip higher education professionals to support student well-being and academic success through a "Regulate, Relate, Reason" framework. Posted September 11, 2025
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AI for the Educators: Module 1: Practical Skills in Crafting Effective Prompts
- This interactive workshop equips higher education faculty with essential prompt engineering skills to streamline teaching workflows and enhance productivity. Educators will learn foundational and advanced techniques—including persona definition, chain-of-thought reasoning, and setting temperature parameters—while gaining hands-on practice with tools like Google Gemini, custom Google Gems, and NotebookLM to create study guides and course materials. Posted September 11, 2025
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Increasing engagement and belonging in Statistics 244
- To maintain student engagement in Statistics 244, instructor Peter Banwarth Carrillo replaced a complex ten-week research project with a biweekly virtual guest speaker series. Posted September 11, 2025
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Collaborative quizzes as a learning tool that increases students’ sense of belonging: Part 2
- In content-heavy science courses, two-stage collaborative quizzes transform traditional assessments into active learning opportunities. Students first take an individual multiple-choice quiz (70% of the grade), then immediately work in small groups to submit a consensus answer sheet (30%). This approach lowers test anxiety, boosts retention, promotes group synergy, and builds essential professional soft skills. Posted September 11, 2025
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Keeping Hope Alive: Nurturing Resilience and Connection in Cynical Times
- Maria Sefchick shares actionable strategies to combat educator burnout, cynicism, and compassion fatigue. Discover how the "HOPE" framework—Heal, Open, Purpose, Engage—can help instructors. Posted September 11, 2025
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Collaborative quizzes as a learning tool that increases students’ sense of belonging
- Biology instructor Ksenia Everton demonstrates how collaborative quizzing turns traditional testing into an active learning tool. Posted September 11, 2025