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What It Takes For a College to Go Online

Edsurge

In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

Faculty Focus

I see the 80/20 rule has an on-going process in which the next time I teach the same course, my goal is to move towards achieving 90% of desired outcomes. Whereas my effort in reflection after-action was about 10 percent and with results about 20 percent, while before-action was about 5 percent with 10 percent in terms of results.

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Four Ways to Create a Supportive and Inclusive Learning Community for Your Students

Faculty Focus

I consistently read in my course evaluations that students appreciate this effort and feel a sense of community in my classroom as a result. Feedback needs to be specific rather than general and should include steps students can take toward achieving the assignment’s goal.

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Four Ways to Create a Supportive and Inclusive Learning Community for Your Students

Faculty Focus

I consistently read in my course evaluations that students appreciate this effort and feel a sense of community in my classroom as a result. Feedback needs to be specific rather than general and should include steps students can take toward achieving the assignment’s goal.

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Fun Last-Day-of-School Activities to Wrap Up the Year

Teachers Pay Teachers

Set the stage for success with goals and achievement activities You know that your students will do big things in the future. Have them create a bracelet that uses one word to describe a goal they achieved this year that they are proud of. Each mark on the timeline should highlight a goal a student achieved.

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

Faculty Focus

I see the 80/20 rule has an on-going process in which the next time I teach the same course, my goal is to move towards achieving 90% of desired outcomes. Whereas my effort in reflection after-action was about 10 percent and with results about 20 percent, while before-action was about 5 percent with 10 percent in terms of results.

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Mid-Semester Course Corrections: Using the MSF Model to Engage Students and Improve Courses

Faculty Focus

One way to achieve this more easily is to focus on those views that emerged as consensus points across the class. Giving Voice to Students: A Preliminary Analysis of Midterm Evaluations and Procedural Justice. Benefits of Talking with Students about Course Evaluations. Weimer, Maryellen. Faculty Focus, June 15, 2016.