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JUNE 17, 2021

Teachers enroll now in new online professional development courses designed to improve student achievement in reading and math. Both the Lexile and Quantile courses offer an interactive curriculum featuring direct instruction, knowledge checks, summative assessments and performance tasks. DURHAM, N.C.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. By utilizing a two-channel approach to deliver instruction, the presenter can use voice and visual hand movement to help the learner codify knowledge (Mayer, 2021). Cognitive load theory states that our working memory is limited (Sweller, et al.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Faculty risk excluding certain students and impeding their ability to succeed when they aren’t intentional about design and facilitation. But simply sharing the correct answer skips the opportunity to let students continue constructing knowledge and practice communicating. What do we mean by an inclusive classroom?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I turned my room into a crime scene and created a scenario that caused my students to leverage their knowledge of angles to solve the case. My students built bridges and learned the geometrical shapes engineers and architects incorporate into their designs to make them structurally sound.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. It is inductive, beginning with raw experience that is processed through an intentional learning format and transformed into working, usable knowledge. Why experiential learning i nside the classroom?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. By utilizing a two-channel approach to deliver instruction, the presenter can use voice and visual hand movement to help the learner codify knowledge (Mayer, 2021). Cognitive load theory states that our working memory is limited (Sweller, et al.,

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As promoted by Zakrajsek (2016) , all learning is by nature an active process since it requires the learner to actively engage with the act of making available knowledge their own. Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

This is because students bring their own prior knowledge and misconceptions to educational media. “If However, you can think of a pedagogically rich online course like a balanced meal that should strive to provide at least a serving of each. Then, I storyboard the instructional videos I’ll need to incorporate.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. It is inductive, beginning with raw experience that is processed through an intentional learning format and transformed into working, usable knowledge. Why experiential learning i nside the classroom?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This requires the seamless integration of knowledge and skills across various disciplines to address Mars’s multifaceted challenges. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. Two such approachesmicrolearning and andragogyoffer promising solutions to enhance student engagement and knowledge retention. References Bustillo-booth, M. Dixson, M.

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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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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 61

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

In that year, high achievement in the rigorous college-prep model was what LAB would have considered student success. The competencies are grouped into four quadrants: Content Knowledge, Creative Know-How, Habits of Success and Wayfinding Abilities. Eighth graders who are taking a capstone course on U.S.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

These subsequent stages, we believe, are necessary for achieving successful student project implementation from beginning to end. We found that our previous attempts to implement a real-world project in this course were hindered because our partner also needed to learn a lot of the concepts and skills the students were learning.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This requires the seamless integration of knowledge and skills across various disciplines to address Mars’s multifaceted challenges. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

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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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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

An Anticipatory Set For me, a well-designed class begins with an anticipatory set and a review of prior learning. These activities work together to engage students, activate their prior knowledge, and prepare them for new content.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

It is also a basic part of teaching and learning and aims to make you more aware of your own professional knowledge. Asking faculty thought-provoking questions will help them to achieve a better understanding of any subject matter in discourse. Effective teaching involves prioritizing the knowledge and skills we choose to focus on.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

This article aims to share ideas and strategies that can help reduce barriers to learning, ensuring equal access to education and the opportunity for all students to achieve their full potential, regardless of ability. The following lists provide an overview of strategies and some suggestions on how to incorporate these you’re your courses.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

This article aims to share ideas and strategies that can help reduce barriers to learning, ensuring equal access to education and the opportunity for all students to achieve their full potential, regardless of ability. The following lists provide an overview of strategies and some suggestions on how to incorporate these you’re your courses.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. Two such approachesmicrolearning and andragogyoffer promising solutions to enhance student engagement and knowledge retention. References Bustillo-booth, M. Dixson, M.

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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

JUNE 6, 2023

In addition to the numerous benefits, online courses also have a few obstacles that must be addressed to make these courses attractive and successful. One of the difficulties in course design is ensuring optimal access to the information we intend our students to utilize inside and outside the classroom.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Modeled after the program at Bryn Mawr College, the student-faculty partnership program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (URTGV), one of the largest Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the nation, aims to create educational spaces in direct response to students’ experiences, knowledge, and insights. Baker-Bell, A. Cavazos, A.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

Provide meaningful feedback Another way to achieve both of the above goals, and support student learning, is to provide students with clear, supportive feedback on their work. This recommendation might sound daunting at first, so here are some tips to make providing feedback easier for you and more meaningful for students.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

These subsequent stages, we believe, are necessary for achieving successful student project implementation from beginning to end. We found that our previous attempts to implement a real-world project in this course were hindered because our partner also needed to learn a lot of the concepts and skills the students were learning.

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Achievement Study Communication Fairness 96

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Specifically, combining the strategies, in our medical surgical nursing care course, we utilized clinical scenarios to allow students to explore the complexities of pathophysiology, treatment plans, and nursing interventions, turning theoretical concepts into practical knowledge. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Commercial texts and tools make it too easy for some faculty to outsource their teaching and course design, Smith says, although he’s empathetic to part-time instructors whose workloads outweigh their resources. What copyright law has done is choke off the transformative power of knowledge sharing.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

It is also a basic part of teaching and learning and aims to make you more aware of your own professional knowledge. Asking faculty thought-provoking questions will help them to achieve a better understanding of any subject matter in discourse. Effective teaching involves prioritizing the knowledge and skills we choose to focus on.

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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. Teamwork When possible, work in teams!

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

Provide meaningful feedback Another way to achieve both of the above goals, and support student learning, is to provide students with clear, supportive feedback on their work. This recommendation might sound daunting at first, so here are some tips to make providing feedback easier for you and more meaningful for students.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Specifically, combining the strategies, in our medical surgical nursing care course, we utilized clinical scenarios to allow students to explore the complexities of pathophysiology, treatment plans, and nursing interventions, turning theoretical concepts into practical knowledge. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We wanted students to gain both interdisciplinary and practical knowledge about drugs and addiction. It may be hard to co-teach, but our parallel play model of linking courses and people helped us generate new ideas together, expanded our community, and made possible what neither of us could have achieved on our own.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

For instance, maybe a learning strategy with a large reported effect size will not be most effective in a particular classroom because students are unmotivated or lack necessary prior knowledge. A number of edtech companies now have learning design teams whose responsibilities overlap with many of the tasks outlined above.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

An Anticipatory Set For me, a well-designed class begins with an anticipatory set and a review of prior learning. These activities work together to engage students, activate their prior knowledge, and prepare them for new content.

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Counselling Learning Lecturing Knowledge 67

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We wanted students to gain both interdisciplinary and practical knowledge about drugs and addiction. It may be hard to co-teach, but our parallel play model of linking courses and people helped us generate new ideas together, expanded our community, and made possible what neither of us could have achieved on our own.

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Interdisciplinary Art History Discussions 105