Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

The kids’ teachers did a good job of telling us what assignments or activities were most important, from their perspective. I modified the final assignment to be a manifesto. This translates to them not being able to view the web pages where assignments are stored.

Teaching 197

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 197

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The “remedial mindset” that some professors have toward students whom they suspect are not fully prepared for college may hinder institution-level reform efforts, says Katie Hern, executive director of the California Acceleration Project and an English instructor at Chabot College. It’s a very long-held paradigm that is sort of hard to shake.”

Exams 172

Exams English Math Instructors 172

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Students are often perfectly comfortable with these technologies and they’re really happy to go out and do this assignment. Then they assign the challenge to personal contacts, neighbors, coworkers, or classmates. There are two takeaways from this assignment: one, it’s hard to get people to change.

Laboratory 101

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 101

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

I do not understand how to do assignments.” As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? I solved everyone’s problems.

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback.

Student Engagement 94

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 94

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

It’s easier to provide a syllabus with structured projects and assignments that have assigned due dates and clear grading parameters. By placing the structure in the purpose of the assignment, I opened up more possibilities. Now it’s postsecondary instructional designers and instructors. There were my guidelines.

Teaching 163

Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI.

Plagiarism 119

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 119

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2023

Set boundaries for instructor interaction with the creation of interaction plans. Knowing these exist provides students with the reassurance that the stress of missing assignments can be alleviated. Inform your students about laptop use and possible warning signs of technical failure. The outcome?

Lecturing 105

Lecturing Instructors Assignments Failure 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. I want them to take ownership over their learning and their time and assignments.” “I For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.”

Teaching 122

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

I do not understand how to do assignments.” As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? I solved everyone’s problems.

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Rather than wait for the teacher to do it at a future date, good PD should insist on letting the instructor serve as the facilitator just as they should do with their own students. It’s vital for PD leaders to use hands-on learning, and to facilitate rather than lecture. Having digital devices means changing the.

eLearning 141

eLearning Failure Lecturing Instructors 141

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. In these structured written assignments, students reflected on their progress and made an estimate of their grade. I almost always agreed with students’ self-reflections and their self-assigned grades. I often thought mistakes meant failure.

Feedback 184

Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 184

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 excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure.

Schools 333

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Students with two or more flags were then assigned to an advisor for follow-up. “We Moore-Davis admits one of the biggest failures in the process was leaving out their bottom-line: students. For starters, instructors no longer have to record attendance daily. We weren’t sure if the product failed, or if we did.”. Sheri Rowland.

Counselling 118

Counselling Failure Instructors Coaching 118

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Students are often perfectly comfortable with these technologies and they’re really happy to go out and do this assignment. Then they assign the challenge to personal contacts, neighbors, coworkers, or classmates. There are two takeaways from this assignment: one, it’s hard to get people to change.

Laboratory 78

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 78

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

The pilot, which launched in fall 2015 and will end at the conclusion of the summer 2016 term, includes nine fulltime and adjunct instructors and approximately 1,000 students. Previously, they were reading longer-form content and then completing a more comprehensive assessment provided by their instructor.

Textbooks 99

Textbooks Failure Instructors Learning 99

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Critical systems hosted on-premises are often a single point of failure, and schools run the risk of losing access to valuable student data—whether that is at the hands of a squirrel that chewed through a line or a snowstorm taking down power. Watch the video to see how it works.

Education 167

Education Intelligence Failure Testing 167

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

The trick is to give students license to interrupt when an important question or comment arises or assign specific individuals to monitor the discussion and check-in periodically. In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching.

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. Those kinds of comments support the fixed mindset.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. I want them to take ownership over their learning and their time and assignments.” “I For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.”

Teaching 98

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

First, Raz Kerwin shares how he engages students (via Google Docs) in the creation of assignment rubrics, while Perry Shaw’s piece focuses on how faculty can improve their use of rubrics. For instructors, rubrics expedite grading with standards; at the same time, they reinforce learning objectives and standardize course curricula.

Instructors 64

Instructors Assignments Failure Students 64

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback. Instead, I provide rich feedback. Why or why not?

Grades 93

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 93

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

The trick is to give students license to interrupt when an important question or comment arises or assign specific individuals to monitor the discussion and check-in periodically. In this way, backchannels serve as a formative assessment for instructors to identify ways to improve the delivery and impact of our teaching.

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. Those kinds of comments support the fixed mindset.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

First, Raz Kerwin shares how he engages students (via Google Docs) in the creation of assignment rubrics, while Perry Shaw’s piece focuses on how faculty can improve their use of rubrics. For instructors, rubrics expedite grading with standards; at the same time, they reinforce learning objectives and standardize course curricula.

Instructors 52

Instructors Assignments Failure Students 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course. Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020).

Teaching 59

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Eighteen students crammed themselves into a stuffy classroom assigned for my first-year seminar course on a sunny day in September. Our class therefore included assignments requiring students to research their future fields. At one point, I asked these college newcomers to share academic and career aspirations. Using the U.S.

Motivation 64

Motivation Students Instructors Failure 64

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment? There’s lots of frustration and failure, and I’d much rather stick with what I know I can do. Can Students Learn While Doing Things They Don’t Like?

Group work 64

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 64

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. Or, a neurodiverse student who struggles with verbal communication and is not able to show their true understanding of the course content when the instructor cold calls them as a form of assessment.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. Or, a neurodiverse student who struggles with verbal communication and is not able to show their true understanding of the course content when the instructor cold calls them as a form of assessment.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment? There’s lots of frustration and failure, and I’d much rather stick with what I know I can do. Can Students Learn While Doing Things They Don’t Like?

Group work 59

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 59

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course. Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020).

Teaching 52

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

As I watched her access her classes, schedule, assignments, classmates, grades, teachers and email all in one place, I thought “How could we not have this for our school system?” As I watched her access her classes, schedule, assignments. all in one place, I thought “How could we not have this for our school system?”.

Failure 74

Failure Feedback Assignments Instructors 74

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Eighteen students crammed themselves into a stuffy classroom assigned for my first-year seminar course on a sunny day in September. Our class therefore included assignments requiring students to research their future fields. At one point, I asked these college newcomers to share academic and career aspirations. Using the U.S.

Motivation 53

Motivation Students Instructors Failure 53

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

How to Apply It in Online Classrooms Point Systems: Reward points for punctuality, participation, completing assignments early, or collaborating well in group projects. Why It Works A study published in the journal Learning and Instruction showed that humor used by instructors can improve knowledge retention and student satisfaction.

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52