Active Learning Attention Syllabus 
Faculty Focus
MAY 29, 2025
After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 12, 2023
The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. At this point, I still have not reviewed the syllabus with them and instead begin a community building activity.
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Edsurge
JUNE 6, 2024
Some educators worry that it will keep students from paying attention. At the college level, Bowen sees potential wins for faculty in the near future, if, say, tools like learning management systems add AI features that can do tasks like build a course website after the instructor feeds it a syllabus.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 12, 2023
The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. At this point, I still have not reviewed the syllabus with them and instead begin a community building activity.
Faculty Focus
MAY 13, 2025
Furthermore, teaching should aim to prepare students for active civic engagement. Increasingly, instructors report difficulty maintaining students attention, citing ever-present distractions like smartphones, laptops, and a relentless stream of digital notifications. We begin with brief introductions and a walkthrough of the syllabus.
Faculty Focus
MAY 13, 2025
Furthermore, teaching should aim to prepare students for active civic engagement. Increasingly, instructors report difficulty maintaining students attention, citing ever-present distractions like smartphones, laptops, and a relentless stream of digital notifications. We begin with brief introductions and a walkthrough of the syllabus.
Edsurge
MARCH 11, 2019
When forced to redesign his course, Robertson saw an opportunity to move toward a curriculum that offered more flexibility than his linear syllabus ever could. His choice: modular learning. Robertson notes that redesigning a curriculum using modules allows educators to build a cache of materials a little at a time.
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