active learning

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Active learning is a central theme in recent discussions on WindowsForum about grading inflation, post-COVID pedagogy, and AI governance in higher education. Threads reference Dr. Jessica Johnson's classroom vignette, which details practices like peer tutoring, human-graded essays, and explicit AI policies to maintain rigor while engaging Gen-Z students. The debate, sparked by Harvard's grading data, explores how active learning can preserve formative gains without sacrificing standards. Topics include balancing equity and mastery, adapting assessment models, and integrating AI tools responsibly. These conversations highlight the tension between reverting to older methods and inventing new approaches that uphold academic integrity in an AI-enabled environment.
  1. Preserving Standards Amid Grading Inflation: Active Learning and AI Governance

    Dr. Jessica Johnson’s classroom vignette — published as a syndicated column and circulated widely this month — pulls a practitioner’s lens into the middle of a national debate over grading inflation, post‑COVID pedagogy, and how instructors should respond to students who have come of age in an...
  2. Harvard Grading Inflation: Balancing Rigor, Active Learning, and AI in Post COVID Classrooms

    Harvard’s grading wake-up call — and a syndicated classroom essay by Dr. Jessica A. Johnson — have reopened a national conversation about what grades are for, how post‑COVID pedagogies reshaped classroom expectations, and how colleges can preserve rigor without abandoning the formative gains of...
  3. Rethinking Grading in Higher Ed: Mastery, Equity, and AI in the Post-Pandemic Classroom

    A growing national debate over grading, accelerated by pandemic-era policies and reshaped classroom practices, has been reignited by a new Harvard College report and coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education — and it lands squarely on the classroom floor where faculty, students, and...