Edsurge
AUGUST 15, 2018
Here’s what I aim to do with this new EdSurge advice column: Recognize that teaching is both an art and a science. Provide guidance from my experience as a teacher and faculty developer and reach out to others when my expertise is lacking. Focus on the joy and the pain that can come from the pursuit of good teaching.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 27, 2021
A school that focuses on experiential learning might want to invest both equipment and faculty development funds in the creation and support of augmented reality and virtual reality. In a purely asynchronous format, even that basic goal has not been easily achieved.
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Edsurge
JULY 21, 2022
Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? I want the students to do something historical, obviously—depict an event or person, perhaps—but I understand that not everyone is equally creative in the arts.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Just because someone talks a different way than you, it doesn’t mean their coding skills or art skills are different than yours,” he continued. Kara Gardner, associate dean of faculty development at Minerva, suggested assembling a committee for hiring decisions, and making sure that committee represents diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Alder College, in a nutshell, would be a two-year liberal arts commuter college and students would graduate with an associate’s degree. It's been challenging, and not because people don't want to see change but higher ed is just a very complex and mostly hierarchical structure that makes it really hard to do this.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
We’ll hear from Kelly Maxwell, assistant dean for undergraduate education in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan, which offers semester-long courses called “intergroup dialogues ” on subjects that tend to provoke strong feelings, including class, sexual orientation and racial identity.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Science educators may use BookSnaps to have their students summarize vocabulary or provide evidence supporting their hypotheses, while art students may take a picture of a painting or sculpture and provide their interpretation or identify the genre. The possibilities are divers.
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