Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As with all course design choices, these ideas are not required for success; you are welcome to choose what feels authentic to your style. Remind students to regularly access their grades and to review their feedback. Framing questions this way can lead to more constructive feedback for you, rather than criticize.

Course Design 90

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 90

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

The free resources from Vernier include the following: Experiment and Sample Data Library: Teachers can access more than 250 free experiments covering many subjects to distribute to students at home. Students can perform their own analysis of the sample data and answer questions based on their results.

STEM 242

STEM Laboratory Teachers Mobile Devices 242

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?” I was ecstatic to hear this question! You see, I’ve been working to expand the accessibility of resources at my college for a while, so it was great to see this on the mind of so many other educators.

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Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 116

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Digital course helps high schoolers develop critical skills they’ll need for workplace success. The Naviance Test Prep WorkKeys® course is integrated into the Naviance platform, which enables students to access all of their college and career planning resources in one place. As the number of U.S.

Students 226

Students Testing Course Design High School 226

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?” I was ecstatic to hear this question! You see, I’ve been working to expand the accessibility of resources at my college for a while, so it was great to see this on the mind of so many other educators.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Students who take online college courses may not realize it, but they are the beneficiaries of a special bill of rights. To ensure students can access books and other academic resources even if they’re nowhere near a campus. But getting books to people spread across the world—and answering their research questions—is no simple task.

eLearning 162

eLearning Course Design Students Distance Learning 162

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

Here are summaries of the four essential elements of successful online courses, according to the playbook. Course Design Instructors should ask themselves: What do you want students to learn in your course? The answer to this question will help identify the right class materials, activities and assessments to use.

Course Evaluations 192

Course Evaluations Instructors Evaluation Universal Design 192

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The report urges schools away from all-in-one service bundles that outsource design, construction, and sometimes even teaching of online courses, and especially from contractors who promise hugely increased revenue. If we start with these questions, a very different and far more diversified approach to online learning may emerge.

Online Learning 192

Online Learning Faculty Development Learning Instructors 192

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Access and Equity Across topics, students have raised questions and concerns around who has access to the benefits of technological innovation, and which students or groups are not being served. Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability?

Fairness 163

Fairness Education Students Disabilities 163

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A) Choose questions that most students will be able to answer correctly. B) Vary the types of poll questions beyond multiple choice. D) Stress that students answer questions independent of their peers. Here are a few tips: Scaffold your questions as class progresses. Select all that apply. Play with the polls.

Instructors 137

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

That’s the question tackled by a research paper published this week. That might be because community colleges are open access, and so colleges don’t know much about students when they come in. But the practice is so new that it’s not yet clear how well the approach actually works. Can big data from the LMS predict success in a class?

Students 174

Students Course Design Study Coaching 174

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

This poses the question: How can we best serve our online students? While these principles are important even in face-to-face courses, the stakes may be higher in fully online asynchronous courses, where the learner primarily interacts with course content and material virtually.

Syllabus 131

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 131

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

The crucial question that has emerged is: how do we engage learners when we are not together physically? When it comes to learning, engagement is influenced by a learner's level of motivation, focus and cognitive ability as well as online course design and a teacher's decisions regarding facilitation style.

Motivation 218

Motivation Education Learning Feedback 218

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

She’s also director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there, which provides faculty with support for instruction, edtech, course design, classroom management and grading. It's good to support learning, it's important for accessibility, it's important to address accommodations for students. So that stuff is really important.

Students 202

Students Instructors Lecturing Participation 202

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Now, having gone to the trouble to design course resources that can be accessed remotely and feeling accustomed to turning on a webcam in the classroom, he has continued to embrace a teaching practice that is known as “HyFlex,” a portmanteau of hybrid and flexible. Will their efforts succeed?

Teaching 207

Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 207

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, I know it is important to be able to address the needs of diverse learners. Moore have organized the self-assessment tool into three sections: The context and design of your course. The text of your syllabus and course design.

Syllabus 155

Syllabus Teaching Beliefs Instructors 155

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Louis’ Olin Business School encourages instructors to select a few questions to create an authentic course introduction video. Interact consistently with students throughout the term, actively posing questions and remaining receptive to their inquiries. questions). Interview-style question bank. link] Wehr, K.

Instructors 116

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 116

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Framework for Developing Your Approach to Generative AI AI can complete so many cognitive tasks that it can be overwhelming to comprehensively address generative AI in your courses. We have created a set of guiding questions to serve as a framework for developing your approach to generative AI. 2023; Gordon, 2023).

Ethics 102

Ethics Multidisciplinary Course Design Confidentiality 102

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

For one thing, edX made its platform open source, meaning anyone can have access to the computer code. And both offer products that are pretty similar, and make most of their revenue by offering tech-related courses to people who already hold college degrees. It’s important to our partners.” Where is edX hoping to go next? “In

Fairness 206

Fairness Course Design Motivation Internet 206

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

This poses the question: How can we best serve our online students? While these principles are important even in face-to-face courses, the stakes may be higher in fully online asynchronous courses, where the learner primarily interacts with course content and material virtually.

Syllabus 108

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 108

Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Those are just some of the questions we’ve asked at #DLNchat , and the answers from your peers abound ! The host, @HigherEdSurge , will post questions using Q1, Q2, Q3, etc. to indicate the questions. These will often appear in the form of question cards as well, like the one below. Pacific / 4:00 p.m. Chat it up.

Mobile Devices 114

Mobile Devices Learning Participation Course Design 114

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Louis’ Olin Business School encourages instructors to select a few questions to create an authentic course introduction video. Interact consistently with students throughout the term, actively posing questions and remaining receptive to their inquiries. questions). Interview-style question bank. link] Wehr, K.

Instructors 105

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

She recalled one instructor who told her that 11 students in her class of 35 turned in the exact same assignment using materials from Course Hero, a website where students can share and access course study materials. If educators must test students, changing the questions can help foil potential cheaters as well, said Millet.

Academic Integrity 143

Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 143

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Even before the pandemic, students were becoming accustomed to having a digital (and therefore readily accessible) extension of their classes via an LMS. This lack of consistency can create confusion and unnecessary cognitive load for students who are taking multiple classes in a term, each one with a very different-looking course shell.

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space. In addition to using technology in my own biology courses, I also work with faculty across the country on how to teach with technology through an inclusive lens.

Technology 167

Technology Teaching Intellectual Development Instructors 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Print content was uploaded and accessible via the LMS, where faculty could view discussion prompts and suggestions.

Multiple Choice Questions 126

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 126

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Many college leaders have looked to online course delivery as a way to reach more students at a reduced cost, in hopes of increasing access to higher education. But so far questions remain about whether high-quality online programs can be delivered for less cost than traditional classes.

Study 119

Study Culture Course Design Instructors 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

UPCEA’s eDesign Collaborative ), I spent hours doing my own personal research on my university’s open access policy and scouring the library website. The collaboration allowed the bookstore access to the library’s online catalog to see which materials in faculty’s course packs were readily available in library journals.

Textbooks 121

Textbooks Syllabus Course Design Communication 121

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

Question: What do we learn from a study that shows a technique or technology likely has affected an educational outcome? Even researchers’ recent efforts to estimate the size of an effect don’t answer key questions. Answer: Not nearly enough. Sure, a study may show that an intervention likely has an effect on learning, but so what?

Communication 129

Communication Education Study Evaluation 129

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. Source: Course Hero. What Is Course Hero? But failure is the whole point of the exercise.

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I recommend looking at your current teaching content with a question, “What’s the most important information I want students to learn here?” Most of the case studies I use in my teaching are fictional by design so that I am able to slightly tweak the scenarios in order to make them more relevant to students’ characteristics.

Student Engagement 131

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 131

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Instructional designers are experts who use their flexibility, knowledge, and skills in theory and practice to help faculty adapt to new ways of educating students (Pollard & Kumar, 2022). Hiring instructional designers is the pivotal change agent needed to innovate and engage students. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching.

Schools 122

Schools Syllabus Authentic Assessment Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Truly open OERs do not require registration or payment to access. I have completed online graduate courses and a professional certificate that used a combination of instructor-created content, freely-accessible websites and videos, and creative-commons-licensed OERs.

Evaluation 145

Evaluation Education Instructors Textbooks 145

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 111

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

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 111

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Given this reality in which AI can provide and synthesize information for and to our students at their requests in seconds, it is not completely paranoid to ask the question, What can we, as college instructors, offer our students in the age of AI? He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI.

Instructors 114

Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 114

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Even before the pandemic, students were becoming accustomed to having a digital (and therefore readily accessible) extension of their classes via an LMS. This lack of consistency can create confusion and unnecessary cognitive load for students who are taking multiple classes in a term, each one with a very different-looking course shell.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105