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Students’ work in my AI course: floating assignments, flexible formats, another round of excellent results

Students’ work in my AI course: floating assignments, flexible formats, another round of excellent results

Published April 29, 2020

Following up on a previous blog post, I’ve finished grading other assignments for my Spring 2020 AI course at FAU, including two so-called “floating assignments” whose topics can picked by the students as they are mentioned (i.e., as they happen to “float around”) in a lecture. Additionally, just as before,…

Flexible format, excellent results

Published April 2, 2020

Q: What happens when you relax some of the requirements of an assignment and give students more freedom to express their understanding of a topic? A: Students produce excellent work in a variety of different formats. Read on… During my ongoing AI course at FAU I asked students to prepare…