Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. Each assignment has 1-10 points, with a total of 100 points. What a good question. I especially wanted students to understand that the final assignment was anything but.

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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 93

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 86

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 86

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. ” assigning points : Blunt strongly discourages assigning points to whiteboard retrieval activities. “Present students with a multiple choice question.” ” Rivers explains.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

These are a great chance for your child to ask questions, get clarification, and interact with their teachers, just like in a physical classroom. Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. Support One-to-One Meetings: Some students are more comfortable asking questions in private rather than during group sessions.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Use these engaging questions and thought experiments to get middle schoolers to open up while practicing writing skills. Give them a safe and structured place to let their arguments fly when you assign these persuasive writing prompts. That’s where journal writing prompts come in! Should 8th graders have a mandatory bedtime?

Writing 52

Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Teaching The Why Sarah Z.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 197

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

As teachers embrace their new roles as designers, instructors, and facilitators of online learning, many are grappling the details associated with teaching remotely. It can be daunting to think about how to present information online, when and where to post assignments, how much to assign, and when to expect that work to be completed.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

—From Brian Plummer, adjunct history professor at Vanguard University Dear Brian, You have posed such vital questions. 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."

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Assignments Grades History Exams 193

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2023

That was the research question posed in the latest Community College Survey of Student Engagement, a large-scale survey of more than 82,000 students across 181 community colleges. When you’re face to face, it’s a lot easier for an instructor to say, ‘OK, we’re going to work in teams,’” she explained.

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Instructors Students Assignments Student Engagement 190

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

MARCH 9, 2023

Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

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Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 267

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Perhaps they are nervous about asking questions because they don’t want to be seen as a student who doesn’t understand the material. You could also include reminders of any tasks or assignments that need to be completed in the first week.

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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

MAY 20, 2022

Instructors often don’t know how to accept help from the instructional coaches, even when they would like to. Instructional coaches, instructional designers, and even assigned co-teachers often struggle to establish working relationships with individual classroom teachers.

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Coaching Instructors Assignments Questions 282

eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

With that in mind, certain strategies, tips, and guidelines have been proven to help instructors begin what can seem like an overwhelming task—teaching a course without ever even needing to physically see her students. Check for questions frequently and provide timely feedback on progress. Establish good course practices.

Education 279

Education Syllabus Instructors Feedback 279

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

I began our synchronous session by addressing frequently asked questions about this model. In this post, I will share answers to some of those questions. Teachers can also include optional high-interest or creative “extension” activities that students can work on once they have finished their assigned work.

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Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 436

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The guide contains examples of how some educators are teaching with ChatGPT, along with a series of frequently-asked questions that may help guide teachers as they seek to strike a balance between accepting AI’s presence and an over-reliance on such tools. You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

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Teaching Quizzes Exams English 275

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Schoeder, 2024).

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 113

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

In a face-to-face class, students see the instructor and other students and, even if not interacting with them directly, know they are not alone. But asynchronous courses, and especially asynchronous independent study courses, present a different scenario with challenges for both instructors and students. Who is my instructor?”

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Instructors Syllabus Assignments Feedback 105

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 106

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 106

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

What questions do you have about these challenges in the context of your own teaching experience? During our discussion, a crucial question was raised: “In terms of teacher training, should schools begin with UDL or blended learning?” Have you encountered similar challenges in your own classroom or school?

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Motivation 460

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.

Teaching 218

Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

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).

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Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 106

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

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.

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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Such a position can help frame classroom assignments as interdisciplinary tasks and projects that require knowledge from other classes and other subjects. Our instructors are subject matter experts who help guide their exploration by providing them with scenarios and simulations to solve. Few mistakes are corrected.

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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.

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Writing Instructors Essay English 205

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability? It actually requires some unlearning, and some changes in approach, to create an environment that better encourages students to complete assigned activities.

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Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 201

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up.

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For many faculty, that last question is causing the most friction around campuses. For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom.

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Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 207

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I recall one student who would wait until the night of the assignment deadline to dive into their schoolwork. All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed.

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Online Learning Instructors Coaching Mobile Devices 185

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the technology itself evolving rapidly, establishing a framework for examining its implications is critical; we need to know what questions to ask, and to continue asking, even as the answers continuously change. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

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Academic Integrity Education Instructors Assignments 205

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Bridge the gap between learning and fun with Paper Live’s daily extracurricular classes hosted live by some of the most entertaining instructors on the internet. As always, students won’t have anything written for them or be given answers—Review Center provides rapid feedback on nearly any writing assignment.

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 257

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.

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Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 193