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Currents in Teaching & Learning

Currents in Teaching & Learning


Improving Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
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Riley McGuire, Editor

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Currents in Teaching and Learning is a peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal that fosters exchanges among teacher-scholars across the disciplines. Published twice a year (typically one issue in fall, one in spring), Currents seeks to improve teaching and learning in higher education with short reports on classroom practices as well as longer research and theoretical articles related to pedagogy.

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Volume 17, Issue 2

Spring 2026 Issue

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Currents 17.2

Editorial: In Defense of Pedagogical Inefficiency

Authors: Riley McGuire and Samantha Murphy

Editor and Student Intern

The Pedagogical Possibilities of Contradictory ‘Rules’ in an Age of Large Language Models

Author: Thomas Jessen Adams

Keywords: artificial intelligence, large language models, chatbots, ChatGPT, AI and education, asynchronous pedagogy, writing pedagogy, online pedagogy, plagiarism, rules, subjective rules

My Quest to Change Assessment in a Mathematics Content Course for Preservice Elementary Teachers: ‘It’s confusing when you explain why. Just show me how to do it.’

Author: Carmen M. Latterell

Keywords: preservice elementary teachers, assessments, mathematics, conceptual understanding, procedural understanding

Equitizing the Syllabus: Fostering Love and Culturally Sustaining Practices in Higher Education

Author: Jason Michael Leggett

Keywords: culturally sustaining, equity, syllabus, love, marginalized students

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Pedagogies and Their Impacts in the Post-COVID-19 CommunityCollege Context: Case Studies in Sociology, English Composition, and Psychology

Authors: Zivah Perel Katz, Jody Resko, Amy E. Traver, and Leslie Ward

Keywords: community college, retention, student engagement, student success, open pedagogy, Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Creating Pathways Toward Intercultural Competence in Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences

Authors: Deb Wingert, Craig Hassel, Matthew Petersen, Marcella Windmuller-Campione, and Anna Capeder

Keywords: intercultural competence, intercultural development, spiral curriculum, world readiness

Currents in Teaching and Learning is a publication of Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. ISSN: 1945-3043

  • Editor: Riley McGuire
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