Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Jeff is passionate about learning and improving the quality of online course design and instruction to benefit returning adult learners.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2024

You’re paying attention, responding to what’s happening in the moment. Say you take lecture material you could do in your sleep and spend an hour coming up with new examples, prepare a set of questions to get students talking about the content, or spiff up two or three of your presentation slides. There’s a bit of uncertainty.

Motivation 111

Motivation Exams Lecturing Questions 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2024

You’re paying attention, responding to what’s happening in the moment. Say you take lecture material you could do in your sleep and spend an hour coming up with new examples, prepare a set of questions to get students talking about the content, or spiff up two or three of your presentation slides. There’s a bit of uncertainty.

Motivation 111

Motivation Exams Lecturing Questions 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 83

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 83

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, both topics have received considerable attention in recent years with proponents linking assessment and feedback—and strategies for these—to educational, social, psychological, and employability benefits (Gaynor, 2020). Dr. Dimple J. Martin is the director of the Quality Enhancement Plan at Miles College.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, both topics have received considerable attention in recent years with proponents linking assessment and feedback—and strategies for these—to educational, social, psychological, and employability benefits (Gaynor, 2020). Dr. Dimple J. Martin is the director of the Quality Enhancement Plan at Miles College.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

To facilitate implementation, we have categorized the strategies from the perspectives of course designers, content creators, and those delivering the content or workshops. The following lists provide an overview of strategies and some suggestions on how to incorporate these you’re your courses. i] [link] [ii] Díez, A.,

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

To facilitate implementation, we have categorized the strategies from the perspectives of course designers, content creators, and those delivering the content or workshops. The following lists provide an overview of strategies and some suggestions on how to incorporate these you’re your courses. i] [link] [ii] Díez, A.,

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

How do you divide your attention between in-person and remote students? So, if the host shows a funny newspaper article to the camera, which the home audience can easily see, the in-person audience won’t miss out since they can move their attention to the monitors. How do you know if the remote students can see and hear you?

Feedback 105

Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

All learning styles are important and need to be acknowledged, but I have found when information is presented visually, both faculty attention spans increase and interests tend to peak participation. In order to answer these questions, Gusky (2002) points our attention to key indicators: What will be measured? Did it make a difference?

Evaluation 111

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

They made declarative statements via lectures throughout class sessions, expecting students to “take it all in” like sponges. We then turned our attentions to negotiating an alliance, also known as agreements or what one student called, our Magna Carta for the course. for “Students are.” Assumptions, agreements, and norms.

Coaching 105

Coaching Syllabus Confidentiality Assignments 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

All learning styles are important and need to be acknowledged, but I have found when information is presented visually, both faculty attention spans increase and interests tend to peak participation. In order to answer these questions, Gusky (2002) points our attention to key indicators: What will be measured? Did it make a difference?

Evaluation 92

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 92

Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

They made declarative statements via lectures throughout class sessions, expecting students to “take it all in” like sponges. We then turned our attentions to negotiating an alliance, also known as agreements or what one student called, our Magna Carta for the course. for “Students are.” Assumptions, agreements, and norms.

Coaching 98

Coaching Syllabus Confidentiality Assignments 98

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

2020; Lang 2021; McRee 2012), results are often self-reported assessments and focus on the characteristics of the instruction such as good course design or expert presentation; less typically does the research focus solely on the learner (Gore et al., 2019; Silvestri, 2005). 2020; Hannafin et al.,

Teaching 52

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Problem-Based Learning 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Wesley Engers has an unusual hobby: beta testing online courses from well-known colleges and universities. He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I

Testing 166

Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

“You have to use video,” says Virginia Tech’s John Boyer, who posts his geography lectures on YouTube and holds live online office hours. In a Q&A, Boyer discusses his flipped syllabus, integrating technology into course design, and why an easy A requires a lot of hard work.

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Lecturing Assignments Course Design 122

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But sometimes, these skills are just as important as a doctor’s attention to a patient’s needs. His attitude and attention helped snap my grandmother out of her detached state and engaged her in a conversation. A physician attends to a patient with their medical knowledge, training, and experience.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But sometimes, these skills are just as important as a doctor’s attention to a patient’s needs. His attitude and attention helped snap my grandmother out of her detached state and engaged her in a conversation. A physician attends to a patient with their medical knowledge, training, and experience.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you’re not entertaining students enough, they’re not going to pay attention to you. Otherwise 1) they’re not going to pay attention, and 2) they’re not going to learn. Resources to Inspire Your Course Design. Professor Stanley Stepanic’s Dracula course file , with links to notes, quizzes, and study guides.

Education 126

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 126

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Five or six years ago we started recording all my lectures—not live lectures, but actually in a studio. If normally I’d do a lecture on China that would span three hours, I would try to break that up into consumable bites, anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes, broken down by particular topics. We converted my office into a studio.

Syllabus 139

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 139