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). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed.

Teaching 88

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 88

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. Exams can be great formative tools to help me as a learner understand what I should be paying attention to from the learning resources and instruction.

Assignments 93

Assignments Exams Learning Instructors 93

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). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed.

Teaching 85

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 85

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).

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. These assessments must be valid and reliable.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 101

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

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Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In a paper Koedinger co-published in Science , he found that as instructors consider their course design and teaching options during a typical college course, they’re picking from trillions of possibilities. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

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.

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Education Lecturing History Quizzes 132

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Let Professor John Boyer Inspire Your Course Design. Explore the World Regions course file , with links to notes, quizzes, and study guides. Watch Boyer's "The Wild Tale of the Rise of Vladimir Putin," a Course Hero Master Class. Understand how Boyer integrates technology into his course design.

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Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 146