Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! That means that as a working learner, your burden will feel lighter because things you are experiencing at work can be used as assignments for class. Welcome to psychology. How does that work? Let’s dive in.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation.

Languages 96

Languages Language Instructors Culture 96

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This technological support allows students to learn at their own pace and revisit complex material without feeling anxious or dependent solely on the instructor. This transparency not only improves learning outcomes but also enhances communication between instructors and students. Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 95

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This technological support allows students to learn at their own pace and revisit complex material without feeling anxious or dependent solely on the instructor. This transparency not only improves learning outcomes but also enhances communication between instructors and students. Flipped Classroom 2.0

Critical Thinking 89

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 89

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation.

Languages 65

Languages Language Instructors Culture 65

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations. Together, we weren’t just evaluating survey results. Flexibility in format and modality such as recorded lectures, alternative assignments, or extended deadlinesmade students feel supported, capable, and seen. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 54

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Your pursuit of this kind of assignment reminds me of an interview I did for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Ken Bain , author of "What the Best College Teachers Do." Gressang’s subsequent tweets reveal what some of the students enrolled in her class created for this final assignment. How would it be different if…?

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Assignments Grades History Ethics 195

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested?

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Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

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Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 309

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. These types of assignments are also harder to farm out to AI! Motivate students to act by incorporating action planning into assignments.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Students, on the other hand, learn how to critically evaluate information and learn about biases when they analyze information coming from generative AI sources. Innovative educators and students are finding new ways to integrate AI into teaching and learning every day.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

Many instructors see them as drudgery as well. For Valenza and a growing number of instructors, the answer is video. In the course evaluations at the end of the semester they write that our class has really formed a community,” she says. It doesn’t really build a community, if that was what is intended,” he says.

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Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 148

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Moving from essential to “renewable” assignments means that the students see the tasks as sufficiently meaningful to be kept and even passed on to others. What a waste!

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Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the mid-1950s, schools would adopt localized, attached libraries in which librarians are considered qualified teachers, educating both students and instructors. Teacher-Librarian – As teachers, librarians evaluate the best kind of learning practices for students, faculty and administrators.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 357

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. 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. Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. Emphasize the importance of each component or stage.

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Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 107

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A first-year seminar provides a perfect structure for this assignment, but it could be used in a variety of courses. In this first-year seminar course students get the usual instruction on learning strategies, but more importantly they complete an assignment in the seminar called a Strategy Project Assignment.

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Exams Assignments Study Evaluation 105

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It helps instructors deliver cohesive learning experiences through structured content and interactivity. This enables the instructor to assign coursework that keeps their students moving forward on their unique learning path. McGraw Hill Connect® is a complete course platform.

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High School High School Schools Instructors 268

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

Assignments 124

Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community? One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” In an online-only world, it’s imperative for students to see you as a human being, not merely as an instructor.

Instructors 209

Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Feedback 209

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing centers on college campuses have been around for more than 100 years , and they’re both a resource for students doing assignments and a symbol of the importance in higher education of learning to express yourself in text. At Middlebury, tutors are also trained to navigate AI policies, which can differ among instructors, Giaimo says.

Writing 205

Writing Instructors Essay English 205

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Participants access learning via textbooks, video clips, interactive learning tasks, and webinars and have opportunities to practice skills via weekly online discussion forums, webinars, collaboration activities, self-check exercises, and homework assignments. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

It actually requires some unlearning, and some changes in approach, to create an environment that better encourages students to complete assigned activities. Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students.

Motivation 202

Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 202

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Between weeks five and eight—and after students have received results from a major assessment—instructors ask students to weigh in on how their learning is progressing.

Feedback 195

Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 195

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve. 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. Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. Emphasize the importance of each component or stage.

Assignments 89

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 89

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

“There’s no universal answer,” says Alexis Peirce Caudell, a lecturer in informatics at Indiana University at Bloomington who recently did an assignment where many students shared their experience and concerns about AI tools. It’s not as simple as assuming that students are all cheaters, the instructor stresses.

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Study Lecturing Instructors Students 212

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. Students attend WGU entirely on screen, with instructors engaging with them virtually by email, phone, text and video.

Teaching 174

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 174

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

I can evaluate how clearly I give directions, how purposefully I manage time, how meaningfully I relay the significance of the work, or whether I call on students equitably. She holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Virginia, where she continues as an instructor in the School of Education and Human Development.

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Education Schools Math Science 299

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). Sojka et al.

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Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 107

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

It is also designed to help teachers create instructions for assignments and review student performance. Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features.

Schools 263

Schools Math Testing Intelligence 263

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.

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

As instructors consider technology tools for their courses, they are increasingly looking for evidence of effectiveness. However, researchers evaluating the impact of these technology tools on learner outcomes often ignore a critical component: the user’s local educational setting and how they choose to use the product.

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Instructors Education Study Science 158

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These tools can also help instructors track whether and how students are studying and completing assignments. Leaders of the project aim to evaluate products twice a year and then update the site accordingly. history surveys.

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STEM Instructors Study History 185

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2022

While people will still be Zooming for some time, taking time to create, produce, and implement asynchronous videos or asynchronous video assignments for your online class can yield multiple benefits. Students can interact with one another through asynchronous video assignments. Asynchronous videos get an A.

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Instructors Assignments Feedback Lecturing 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

This change reduces writing assignment stress and time pressure, improving productivity and learning. However, when leveraging such tools for school assignments, it’s crucial to ensure the work remains authentic because teachers always check AI% in Turnitin or other detectors.

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Essay Writing Ethics Plagiarism 187

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns. The most time consuming or emotionally taxing items can be processed via prompts.

Schools 329

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 329

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002). Sojka et al.

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Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 95

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2018

When professors shift to assigning Open Educational Resources instead of publisher-produced textbooks, the move typically saves students money (and it can be a significant amount). That project, started in 2016, involves 38 community colleges that have switched to OER in a total of 385 courses, supported by $9.8-million million in grants.

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Textbooks Study Participation Assignments 160