Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As educators, we’re always looking for ways to engage students with practical, real-world applications of business concepts. This assignment has four parts: Part I : An overview of the five leadership styles, where students understand, define, and analyze key characteristics. Other educators have also found this approach useful.

Assignments 111

Assignments Teaching Ethics Textbooks 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? Then, share the assignment prompt. And more importantly, should we?

Assignments 79

Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 79

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

As university professors and researchers who work closely with K-12 online teachers and learners, we’ve heard from many newly remote educators who are struggling. Being an engaged teacher online means being visible in the class, whether that’s through discussion posts, announcements or assignment feedback.

Motivation 218

Motivation Education Learning Feedback 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). I recently received an email from the folks at Model Teaching.

Teaching 179

Teaching Education Learning Assignments 179

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course. One of the most accessible practices on this list might be collaborative assignments and projects. Emphasize the importance of each component or stage.

Assignments 101

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 101

eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Two new initiatives that guide educators – the College and Career Readiness Standards and the Framework for 21st Century Learning – identify communication and collaboration as key elements of student learning. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches this August with three online sessions.

Critical Thinking 153

Critical Thinking Communication Education Lecturing 153

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As educators, we’re always looking for ways to engage students with practical, real-world applications of business concepts. This assignment has four parts: Part I : An overview of the five leadership styles, where students understand, define, and analyze key characteristics. Other educators have also found this approach useful.

Assignments 91

Assignments Teaching Ethics Textbooks 91

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like.

Assignments 93

Assignments Exams Learning Instructors 93

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You enter and on the board is your first assignment: create something—a drawing, a model of a house, a sketch of a new product, a sculpture. And tells you your next assignment is to pick up the pieces (including yourself) and make something new. How might educators, with their domain expertise, become the designers of these changes?

Education 167

Education Schools Art History 167

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? Then, share the assignment prompt. And more importantly, should we?

Assignments 61

Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 61

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. These efforts culminated a meticulously designed course template that is the backbone of the program’s online offerings.

Feedback 118

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 118

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Instructors are encouraged to take small steps to start building HIPs in their curriculums, and there are some HIPs which are easy to incorporate into an existing course. One of the most accessible practices on this list might be collaborative assignments and projects. Emphasize the importance of each component or stage.

Assignments 81

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 81

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching. Department of Education.

Teaching 218

Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Learning 218

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online education, the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications online graduate programs (UF CJC Online) stands at the forefront of innovation and quality. These efforts culminated a meticulously designed course template that is the backbone of the program’s online offerings.

Feedback 108

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 108

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Educational media is at an inflection point. Patagonia’s multi-module educational campaign to encourage environmental activism and the New York Times 360 Video Channel preview what video learning platforms of the future could look like. This is because students bring their own prior knowledge and misconceptions to educational media. “If

Instructors 142

Instructors Education Lecturing Knowledge 142

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

Most of our grade was supposed to come from a single class project, but no assignment instructions were ever posted. But what about this assignment that was worth so much of our grade? When students know the purpose of the work they’re being asked to do, they have greater buy-in than if they see the assignment as mere “busy work.”

Syllabus 130

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 130

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

That’s an approach that’s grown over the past decade or so where colleges try to harness the digital breadcrumbs left by students as they move through digital platforms and online course materials to find patterns that can improve course design and even personalize material for individual students. “AI

Intelligence 211

Intelligence Syllabus Feedback Assignments 211

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Organization and structure  Students appreciate courses where assignments and course materials are organized and structured. Use of LMS tools  Students spoke highly of courses that harnessed the full potential of the LMS’s tools. The method of organization does not really matter as long as it is user-friendly.

Syllabus 126

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But Chatterjee, an international student from India, did not feel confident about the assignment, and thought it was Western-centric and focused on physical powers associated with attractive males. Based on that feedback, the professor, Julia Parra, says she changed the assignment to make it broader, and more inclusive.

Culture 153

Culture Teaching Syllabus English 153

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Students cheating on assignments is hardly a new or surprising problem. In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments.

Academic Integrity 143

Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 143

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Back-to-school is getting closer and closer, and as it approaches, stakeholders and ed-tech vendors are working to create research and products that identify educational needs and truly improve teaching and learning in the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches in August with three online sessions.

Teaching 186

Teaching Exams Learning Disabilities 186

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2021

As an experienced educator who has been in the forefront of technology integration, this past year seemed like a tidal wave. One, all assignments were created so that students could have access 24/7. I made sure that there were only two assignments a week with the final assignment being a type of assessment.

Distance Learning 167

Distance Learning Assignments Feedback Course Design 167

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.

Course Design 142

Course Design Assignments Teaching Philosophy Instructors 142

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

Offering both synchronous and asynchronous options may be referred to as hybrid, blended, or bichronous course delivery, but often these are not flexible enough. Educators will need to be open-minded and flexible as they will be adapting delivery and materials with in-person lessons and changing amounts of students throughout the year.

Exams 111

Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Organization and structure  Students appreciate courses where assignments and course materials are organized and structured. Use of LMS tools  Students spoke highly of courses that harnessed the full potential of the LMS’s tools. The method of organization does not really matter as long as it is user-friendly.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 111

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Jenn Stringer Jenn Stringer, assistant vice chancellor for teaching and learning at UC Berkeley, told the story to a crowd of about 50 educators and IT professionals on Wednesday at the 2017 Educause national conference. What happens when students get stereotyped [based on their data] and how do you handle outliers?

Discussions 122

Discussions Education Learning Course Design 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

Accessibility 105

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I spent the next four years in my assigned seat among the rows of desks, trying to listen to the teacher at the front of the room, completing homework assignments from textbooks, and preparing for tests by making countless flashcards. Twenty years ago, I was a freshman in high school.

Students 164

Students Attention Textbooks Assignments 164

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

They set up two prediction systems to guess whether students would complete a course: one based only on “administrative data” held by the colleges, such as high school GPA and college transcripts of students; and the other based on so-called “clickstream” data generated by students as they went through course activities on the LMS.

Students 174

Students Course Design Study Coaching 174

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. In addition to using technology in my own biology courses, I also work with faculty across the country on how to teach with technology through an inclusive lens. Provide opportunities for students to reflect.

Technology 167

Technology Teaching Intellectual Development Instructors 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The native Canadian has five degrees from three countries—a bachelor’s in engineering, master’s in education and business, and doctorates in philosophy and education. He’s published more than a dozen books on higher education and taught at more than 40 business schools around the world, from Britain to Uzbekistan.

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

Most of our grade was supposed to come from a single class project, but no assignment instructions were ever posted. But what about this assignment that was worth so much of our grade? When students know the purpose of the work they’re being asked to do, they have greater buy-in than if they see the assignment as mere “busy work.”

Syllabus 104

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 104

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In a recent survey, undergraduate students reported several concerns around Canvas use, including: Too much variability and lack of consistency across instructors and courses – all faculty use it differently which leads to challenges in finding information, resources, assignments, etc. So how do we begin to address these concerns?

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. Student success is teacher success. Dr. Tammy R.

Students 122

Students Motivation Feedback Communication 122

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

Offering both synchronous and asynchronous options may be referred to as hybrid, blended, or bichronous course delivery, but often these are not flexible enough. Educators will need to be open-minded and flexible as they will be adapting delivery and materials with in-person lessons and changing amounts of students throughout the year.

Exams 96

Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 96

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. food, water, warmth, rest, and security).

Syllabus 131

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 131