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. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? Spitale et al.

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

This poses the question: How can we best serve our online students? Research suggests that by increasing course structure in online and hybrid courses, achievement gaps can be reduced—or even eliminated! But what can faculty do to try to remediate this long-standing problem?

Syllabus 106

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 106

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. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? Spitale et al.

Faculty Development 78

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 78

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Many of you reading this article are online teachers and I would like to start by asking two questions: Are you a good online teacher? Despite this perception, online learning’s popularity grows as it allows students to access diverse educational opportunities beyond geographical limitations in a cost-effective manner.

Hybrid Courses 79

Hybrid Courses Gamification Discussions Online Learning 79

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment. Occasionally, we paused the lecture to pose a thought-provoking question, encouraging students to discuss it with a partner before sharing their insights with the class.

Teaching 82

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 82

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment. Occasionally, we paused the lecture to pose a thought-provoking question, encouraging students to discuss it with a partner before sharing their insights with the class.

Teaching 79

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 79

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2021

Inclusive teaching is a foundational element for us at the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning, and as we worked with thousands of instructors to prepare for online or hybrid courses over the last year, we centered inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging in all of our programs and resources.

Teaching 212

Teaching Instructors Hybrid Courses Lecturing 212

Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2023

We can then challenge students on that exploration by asking them questions on what similarities and differences exist and why, and every student (for the most part) will likely find something different to further foster their own curiosity. Hybrid courses with flexible participation: the HyFlex course design. 3: 403-412.

Lecturing 126

Lecturing Course Design Blended Courses Instructors 126

Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2023

We can then challenge students on that exploration by asking them questions on what similarities and differences exist and why, and every student (for the most part) will likely find something different to further foster their own curiosity. Hybrid courses with flexible participation: the HyFlex course design. 3: 403-412.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Course Design Blended Courses Instructors 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Once the University of Texas–Pan American (in Edinburgh) and the University of Texas–Brownsville, the two distinct institutions had smaller student populations, along with limited access to state funding. Among anxieties, she says staff were buzzing with questions like “logistically, how do you combine departments across two campuses?”

Hybrid Courses 148

Hybrid Courses Students Writing Instructors 148