Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Efforts to include all individuals, including those with disabilities in educational settings should prioritize specific measures to ensure their full participation in all activities. Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements.

Accessibility 105

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Efforts to include all individuals, including those with disabilities in educational settings should prioritize specific measures to ensure their full participation in all activities. Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

Designing With Intention Thus far, we have discussed the Universal Design for Learning and the integration of the IPEC competencies to foster inclusion and encourage active collaboration. The next thing to consider is the design and structure of the learning offering or activity.

Learning 91

Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 91

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., 2022 for a discussion of the empathetic course design perspective). This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. This empathetic course design perspective is important to us. Raimondi, 2019).

Course Design 98

Course Design Assignments Teaching Philosophy Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

We can nurture our students intrinsic motivation to learn the content through demonstrations of our own engagement, activating the process of trickle-down engagement by which our own engagement as instructors promotes our students engagement and their subsequent learning (Saucier, Miller, Martens, & Jones, 2022). Saucier, Ph.D.

Instructors 112

Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 112

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Based on my classroom teaching experience, I believe that recognizing the importance of student feedback fosters active engagement and self-reflection in the student learning process. Designing effective feedback processes in higher education : A learning-focused approach. Diagram 2 below describes the distinction. Gaynor, J.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Based on my classroom teaching experience, I believe that recognizing the importance of student feedback fosters active engagement and self-reflection in the student learning process. Designing effective feedback processes in higher education : A learning-focused approach. Diagram 2 below describes the distinction. Gaynor, J.

Fairness 110

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 110

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). This setting typically requires the use of technology, structured activities, and clear organization to manage the diverse needs of a larger audience.

Teaching 82

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 82

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). This setting typically requires the use of technology, structured activities, and clear organization to manage the diverse needs of a larger audience.

Teaching 79

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 79

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

When designing activities and assessments, how can we consider students’ languages and dialects—particularly how these skills may be relevant to their careers after they leave our classrooms? When designing the criteria for success for an assignment, we can consider the rhetorical choices students make. Cavazos, A. Bernacki, M.,

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

This activity can take anywhere from a few minutes to even half of the class session. Gough began her teaching career in higher education in 1991 and facilitated the transition of ground campus courses to online courses in 2007. Breakout rooms.

Student Engagement 90

Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 90

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Overreliance on AI risks undermining critical thinking; Pritts (2023) warns that tools generating papers may erode analytical skills, echoing SoTL calls for active learning (Davidson, 2021). Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction.

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Overreliance on AI risks undermining critical thinking; Pritts (2023) warns that tools generating papers may erode analytical skills, echoing SoTL calls for active learning (Davidson, 2021). Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction.

Faculty Development 78

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 78

Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

This activity can take anywhere from a few minutes to even half of the class session. Gough began her teaching career in higher education in 1991 and facilitated the transition of ground campus courses to online courses in 2007. Breakout rooms.

Student Engagement 66

Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 66

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

It was fulfilling to read about how they connected to the content we learned together, the activities we engaged in, and the missions and assignments they completed. important and/or intriguing content and skills) and engaging activities and assignments.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

2016); however, the model should be accompanied by a course design that applies the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to augment accessibility. The Hyflex model becomes more effective when accompanied by a course design that uses the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Framework.

Universal Design 116

Universal Design Course Design Learning Syllabus 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

It was fulfilling to read about how they connected to the content we learned together, the activities we engaged in, and the missions and assignments they completed. important and/or intriguing content and skills) and engaging activities and assignments.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. Eric Prochaska taught English for over ten years before pivoting to instructional design. Hood Community College in Oregon, where he helps faculty design online courses and activities. Analyze what it writes.

Assignments 122

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. Eric Prochaska taught English for over ten years before pivoting to instructional design. Hood Community College in Oregon, where he helps faculty design online courses and activities. Analyze what it writes.

Assignments 98

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

2022 for discussion of empathetic course design). 2022 for a review). Consider alternative readings or activities, when possible. The empathic course design perspective. To provide this support to your students, you may want to consider using content disclosures in your classes. What is a content disclosure?

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

2022 for discussion of empathetic course design). 2022 for a review). Consider alternative readings or activities, when possible. The empathic course design perspective. To provide this support to your students, you may want to consider using content disclosures in your classes. What is a content disclosure?

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111