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The Faculty Room
Ideas, formats and time-savers for people who teach at university level — shared by people who get it.
Grade the 60th paper like you graded the first
By the fortieth submission, the standard you started with has quietly drifted. It isn't carelessness, it's what a vague rubric leaves to a tired evening. Here's how to grade the last paper the way you graded the first.
Read more →Using AI for course design without dumbing it down
The fear is fair: most AI writes bland, generic, lowest-common-denominator content. But the dumbing down doesn't come from AI — it comes from AI that ignores your course. Here's the difference, and how to use it without lowering the bar.
Read more →\"Activities are just games\" — and other myths that keep the lecture on life support
There's a quiet prejudice in higher education: that classroom activities are playtime, fine for schools but beneath a serious university. It's wrong — and it's costing us the most rigorous teaching we could be doing.
Read more →Your students have changed. Why our course formats haven't kept up.
The empty seats aren't laziness. Students have changed — and the lecture is losing a competition it didn't know it was in. Adapting is the obvious answer; affording to experiment is the hard part.
Read more →From case studies to simulations and exams: 15 university-level activity formats
How many genuinely different activity formats have you used this year? A tour of fifteen rigorous, classroom-ready formats — and why the hard part was never the list, it's the fit.
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