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Colleges Can Turn Classes Into Virtual Communities. Here’s How.

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Don’t just use video for lectures; the format can also be used to welcome students to your class, provide feedback (much preferred by students to print feedback) and walk through assignments. Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course. Avoid long videos, though.

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What If Students Are the Biggest Barrier to Innovation?

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One student wrote me this email saying he went to business school, was a professional, and had never spent so much time one assignment. And those student attitudes can have an impact, since students who don’t like the changes being implemented sometimes leave harsh critiques of the course in their course evaluations.

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Course-Correcting Mid-Semester: A Three Question Feedback Survey

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2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. What should I start doing?

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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For example, Bruff teaches a statistics course where he uses an infographics assignment that he adapted from Sidneyeve Matrix, an associate professor at Queen’s University, in Canada. “In In my assignment description I have a little footnote that gives her credit,” he says. “As

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

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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. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

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Course-Correcting Mid-Semester: A Three Question Feedback Survey

Faculty Focus

2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. What should I start doing?

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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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In the course evaluations at the end of the semester they write that our class has really formed a community,” she says. Cheryl Bonsall, a former student in the course, says that delivering her responses by video rather than writing "made me more accountable for my words and my message." I rarely read the whole thing.”