Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The central tenets of social justice are centered around providing fair and equitable treatment of others as well as access to services, remaining mindful of the diversity of thought, culture, and perspectives one brings to a learning environment, and remaining inclusive in our actions and in creating a welcoming learning environment for all.

Learning 110

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 110

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The central tenets of social justice are centered around providing fair and equitable treatment of others as well as access to services, remaining mindful of the diversity of thought, culture, and perspectives one brings to a learning environment, and remaining inclusive in our actions and in creating a welcoming learning environment for all.

Learning 110

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 110

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Organization and structure  Students appreciate courses where assignments and course materials are organized and structured. Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference. 

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The central tenets of social justice are centered around providing fair and equitable treatment of others as well as access to services, remaining mindful of the diversity of thought, culture, and perspectives one brings to a learning environment, and remaining inclusive in our actions and in creating a welcoming learning environment for all.

Learning 109

Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 109

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

The University of Akron launched the GenEd Core Pilot Program in Fall 2015 to help increase access to higher education. The program used Brightspace to deliver blended learning courses designed with experiential learning elements that allowed them to be offered with significant cost savings.

Online Learning 115

Online Learning Quizzes eLearning Learning 115

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. As instructors, our role is not just to provide access to content. The empathetic course design perspective. We are needed to inspire students to come to class, to ask questions, to work out the answers with them. Saucier, Ph.D. Saucier, D.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 112

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The central tenets of social justice are centered around providing fair and equitable treatment of others as well as access to services, remaining mindful of the diversity of thought, culture, and perspectives one brings to a learning environment, and remaining inclusive in our actions and in creating a welcoming learning environment for all.

Learning 91

Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Benefits: Accessibility and Faculty Efficiency AI enhances accessibility, a cornerstone of community college missions. Spitale et al.

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Recording lectures and making them accessible online ensures that students who encounter problems or need additional review have the resources they need to succeed (Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning, 2021). Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). References Beatty, B.

Teaching 82

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 82

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Benefits: Accessibility and Faculty Efficiency AI enhances accessibility, a cornerstone of community college missions. Spitale et al.

Faculty Development 78

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 78

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Findings To better understand implicit linguistic biases, with approval from the Institutional Review Board, we conducted a thematic analysis of feedback provided to instructors informed by the following questions from our program’s feedback review lenses (Cavazos et al., link] Winkelmes, M. Bernacki, M., Zochowski, J.

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Recording lectures and making them accessible online ensures that students who encounter problems or need additional review have the resources they need to succeed (Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning, 2021). Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). References Beatty, B.

Teaching 79

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 79

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

During the 2020 global pandemic, Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) were challenged with maintaining access to learning and student attendance. 2016); however, the model should be accompanied by a course design that applies the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to augment accessibility.

Universal Design 116

Universal Design Course Design Learning Syllabus 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

A great way for instructors to show students that they care about their learning and performance, and to help them actually learn and perform better, is to provide explicit recommendations about how to do well in their course. The empathetic course design perspective. Saucier, Ph.D. Bringing PEACE to support all students.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

A great way for instructors to show students that they care about their learning and performance, and to help them actually learn and perform better, is to provide explicit recommendations about how to do well in their course. The empathetic course design perspective. Saucier, Ph.D. Bringing PEACE to support all students.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 98