Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

With a commitment to ensuring educational excellence and student success, in 2020, UF CJC Online developed a comprehensive course design strategy to elevate its online courses, a mission mandated by the State University System of Florida’s 2025 Strategic Plan for Online Education.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

New programs that can produce school leaders who are more capable of improving schools and raising student achievement are essential to school districts across the country. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches in August with three online sessions.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

These default features force online instructors to use a style of teaching that feels more like shouting to the masses than engaging in meaningful conversations. This presents a challenge and an opportunity: How can we design online learning environments that achieve scale and intimacy?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

Those who participate in fully online courses, particularly asynchronous ones, may feel isolated from their instructor, their peers, and the university as a whole. Does everything work together to achieve the stated learning objectives of the course? Mental i llness.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rachel Thelen , The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Noelle Haight , Occupational Therapist and Educator Julia VanderMolen , University of the Pacific Key Statement: Four helpful tips, including backwards design, for the new instructor looking to (re)design their course. Many new instructors face this what now?

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. This is why a well-designed course will have a balance of formative and summative assessments.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Relate” videos get the student to feel connected to the instructor. They seek to establish instructor presence. They also prompt students to reflect on their own prior experiences with the topic and reasons for taking the course. These four actions represent a synthesis of the research on instructional media.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

With the growing demand for contemporary online education, it is crucial to analyze instructional design – a systematic process that applies psychological principles of human learning to develop effective instructional solutions. Thus, to combat these issues, instructors must take a proactive approach in designing online courses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

To achieve scale, forward-thinking platform companies likely will need to partner with colleges, universities and K12 schools to embed the acquisition of platform-centric skills within traditional programs and degrees. They’re going to need the help of the platform companies themselves.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

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Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives. This is why a well-designed course will have a balance of formative and summative assessments.

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

For example, in technical writing, editing for concision may be achievable with generative AI; however, understanding context enough to ensure that the writing is understandable will likely still require human skills. This is a theoretical exercise without one right answer, but your response reveals key foci as an instructor.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Increasing student success requires tight alignment across course learning outcomes, assessments, and planned learning experiences, but why, after all the hours spent planning for student success, do large numbers of students still struggle in college? This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.” Be specific about what will need to happen to achieve their learning goals versus just to get the grade. Another way of asking the question is, “Do you talk to them about this?”

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Faculty Focus

JULY 4, 2023

Classic online course standards emphasize the value of three types of interactions: student-instructor interaction, student-content interaction, and student-student interaction. The authors did find, however, that group projects tended to elevate student achievement. link] Kurucay, M. , & Inan, F.

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Exams Students Instructors Evaluation 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

With the growing demand for contemporary online education, it is crucial to analyze instructional design – a systematic process that applies psychological principles of human learning to develop effective instructional solutions. Thus, to combat these issues, instructors must take a proactive approach in designing online courses.

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Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 89

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

As an adjunct instructor, your time on campus and ability to meet with students might be limited, but there are things you can do during your class to build relationships with your students to help them succeed (and make the work more meaningful for you). Co-create classroom norms with your students.

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Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 119

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This faculty member may give exams and may collect student artifacts, such as projects or papers, but the faculty really doesn’t connect student performance with the course design or classroom experience. He helps his players achieve success as humans. than the question, “Are students learning in the best possible way?”

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Feedback Course Design Assignments Evaluation 126

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

As an adjunct instructor, your time on campus and ability to meet with students might be limited, but there are things you can do during your class to build relationships with your students to help them succeed (and make the work more meaningful for you). Co-create classroom norms with your students.

Teaching 111

Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 4, 2023

Classic online course standards emphasize the value of three types of interactions: student-instructor interaction, student-content interaction, and student-student interaction. The authors did find, however, that group projects tended to elevate student achievement. link] Kurucay, M. , & Inan, F.

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Exams Students Instructors Evaluation 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 94

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

However, just as the iTunes business model is deeply disadvantageous to artists, online learning platforms are now granting online instructors smaller and smaller shares of the revenue as they steer business models in the streaming direction. At Skillshare, instructors earn between 5 to 10 cents per minute-watched.

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Online Learning Instructors Education Fairness 88

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.” Be specific about what will need to happen to achieve their learning goals versus just to get the grade. Another way of asking the question is, “Do you talk to them about this?”

Teaching 98

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Increasing student success requires tight alignment across course learning outcomes, assessments, and planned learning experiences, but why, after all the hours spent planning for student success, do large numbers of students still struggle in college? This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 105

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT) is an innovative teaching approach where students and instructors collaborate to improve educational experiences ( Cavazos et al., One theme on building critical consciousness explored in our program is the presence of implicit linguistic biases in course syllabi and assignment designs.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To address the disparity between in-person and remote students, instructors can implement strategies that ensure both groups feel equally engaged.

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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 89

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 67

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This faculty member may give exams and may collect student artifacts, such as projects or papers, but the faculty really doesn’t connect student performance with the course design or classroom experience. He helps his players achieve success as humans. than the question, “Are students learning in the best possible way?”

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Assignments Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That’s when we really started getting calls from frustrated instructors at community colleges who said, ‘I have a big problem. Students are enrolling in my course to get a technical degree but they can’t afford the textbook because it’s $300. Researchers are already studying the extent to which OER materials help achieve those goals.

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Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

The Delivery Next comes the delivery of new learning, which can be achieved through various methods such as assigned readings, live or pre-recorded lectures, class discussions, flipped classroom activities, or small group work. This could take the form of a no-point or low-stakes quiz, a case study, group work, or even a reflective activity.

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Counselling Learning Lecturing Knowledge 95

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Sustaining high quality online teaching and learning is best achieved through professional development derived from collegial relationships among online teaching faculty and high touch faculty support provided through an online mentoring model, the Online Learning Community (Pearson & Kirby, 2018). link] Blitz, C. REL 2013–003).

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Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 6, 2023

Keeping our students engaged and connected to course content is at the top of an instructor’s list. Hybrid, synchronous, and asynchronous online courses have become very popular with our students. These courses offer many advantages, like remote access, self-paced learning, flexibility, and affordability.

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Accessibility Course Design Students Research Methods 69

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Sustaining high quality online teaching and learning is best achieved through professional development derived from collegial relationships among online teaching faculty and high touch faculty support provided through an online mentoring model, the Online Learning Community (Pearson & Kirby, 2018). link] Blitz, C. REL 2013–003).

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Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

The Delivery Next comes the delivery of new learning, which can be achieved through various methods such as assigned readings, live or pre-recorded lectures, class discussions, flipped classroom activities, or small group work. This could take the form of a no-point or low-stakes quiz, a case study, group work, or even a reflective activity.

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Counselling Learning Lecturing Knowledge 74