The oral exam is not just for graduate school. Surprisingly, I found that teaching mathematics online during COVID-19 infused the seemingly antiquated tactic of oral exams with fresh purpose. With ...

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The assignment involves no laptop, no chatbot and no technology of any kind. In fact, there’s no pen or paper, either. Instead, students in Chris Schaffer’s biomedical engineering class at Cornell ...

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