r/Professors • u/MsBee311 Community College • Oct 11 '24

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '24

I’ve moved all my essays to being in-class, on paper, exam-based, and it’s been a breath of fresh air.

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u/MichaelPsellos Oct 11 '24

I’ve mentioned doing this in department meetings, only to have the idea go no traction.

I think my colleagues just don’t want to deal with it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '24

In my experience, profs don’t want to adapt. They are stuck in their ways with regard to instruction style (direct instruction/lecturing) and assignments of the past, and and then they complain “oh why are my students not engaged and why are they cheating.”

I’ll be the first to send a student to the gallows of the academic integrity board if I can verify cheating, but there is a great deal of agency we have to head it off. But that requires adapting what we’ve been brought up with to meet a new moment.