Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

Increasingly, instructors report difficulty maintaining students attention, citing ever-present distractions like smartphones, laptops, and a relentless stream of digital notifications. It reframes the syllabus not as a fixed legal document, but as a living agreement shaped by both instructor expertise and student input.

Syllabus 104

Syllabus Instructors Learning Confidentiality 104

Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

Increasingly, instructors report difficulty maintaining students attention, citing ever-present distractions like smartphones, laptops, and a relentless stream of digital notifications. It reframes the syllabus not as a fixed legal document, but as a living agreement shaped by both instructor expertise and student input.

Syllabus 97

Syllabus Instructors Learning Confidentiality 97

Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

Their aim in teaching was to instill knowledge as if the students were empty vessels into which the professor simply poured content. One-page syllabus On the first day of class, we reviewed their answers to the appreciative inquiry and discussed how we could be colleagues in this course. What could they contribute to their own success?

Coaching 105

Coaching Syllabus Confidentiality Assignments 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

A press conference : Ask students to collaboratively devise a set of interview questions, and interview you (or a guest speaker) to gain knowledge about an event or phenomena related to class. Tip: Ask students to construct new knowledge (e.g., Tip: Ask students to construct new knowledge (e.g., Provo, UT: EdTechBooks.org.

Blended Learning 132

Blended Learning Lecturing Education Learning 132

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

I often think of standard assessments as ‘show me what you know’ and alternative assessments as ‘demonstrate what you can do with that knowledge.’” Erin Crisp put it this way, “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 97

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 97

Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

Their aim in teaching was to instill knowledge as if the students were empty vessels into which the professor simply poured content. One-page syllabus On the first day of class, we reviewed their answers to the appreciative inquiry and discussed how we could be colleagues in this course. What could they contribute to their own success?

Coaching 98

Coaching Syllabus Confidentiality Assignments 98

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

How I figure it, there are a list of things I find reasonable for all students—letting them stand or wiggle when they are having problems with attention or sleepiness, taking extra time to answer questions for assignments and projects, moving at a pace that is comfortable for the slowest in the group when we are on-the-move for class, etc.

Disabilities 130

Disabilities Students Assignments Syllabus 130

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Any person who has reason to believe that a student has committed academic dishonesty should bring such information to the attention of the appropriate course instructor as soon as possible. 2023; Trust et al.,

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Any person who has reason to believe that a student has committed academic dishonesty should bring such information to the attention of the appropriate course instructor as soon as possible. 2023; Trust et al.,

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

A press conference : Ask students to collaboratively devise a set of interview questions, and interview you (or a guest speaker) to gain knowledge about an event or phenomena related to class. Tip: Ask students to construct new knowledge (e.g., Tip: Ask students to construct new knowledge (e.g., Provo, UT: EdTechBooks.org.

Blended Learning 98

Blended Learning Lecturing Education Learning 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

We started with guidance from Jean Piaget’s Constructivist Learning Theory, “a process of constructing knowledge based on experience which embraced activelearning modalities as viable examples of the theory.In What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students? In management, it might be a company.

Student Engagement 52

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 52

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

A dozen or so students are gathered virtually in a Zoom room, inhaling and exhaling and summoning their attention for a brisk lunchtime lesson filled with music and poetry. The syllabus is structured to inspire confidence and courage. Todd explains how students can start to add their threads to this web of knowledge.

Students 178

Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

For courses at Trident that use inclusive access arrangements with publishers, students can access the material on their first day of class through the course-management system, just a click from where they are looking at their syllabus and other course information.

Textbooks 148

Textbooks Accessibility Syllabus Participation 148

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In learner-centered pedagogical practices, the focus and attention is on learning what and how the student is learning (Weimer, 2013). In these spaces, the teacher is not the only one with knowledge. Implementation and Strategies The first year I utilized cogen, I integrated these dialogues into my syllabus.

Teaching 52

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Problem-Based Learning 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Today, students are absorbing knowledge everywhere, all the time, even when they dont realize it. That means higher attention spans and deeper retention. Bite-Sized, Yet Effective: Micro-learning formats fit into students’ fast-paced lives, offering knowledge in seconds rather than hours.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Blogs 7 missteps university leaders must avoid in their AI approach Every historic innovation that has shaped the way people access and use knowledge, from the printing press to the internet, has brought transformative changes to universities.

Plagiarism 52

Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. If we pay attention, there are insights here that can guide us to radical pedagogical intervention.

Lecturing 217

Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. If we pay attention, there are insights here that can guide us to radical pedagogical intervention.

Lecturing 203

Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 203

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A physician attends to a patient with their medical knowledge, training, and experience. 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.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A physician attends to a patient with their medical knowledge, training, and experience. 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.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

One long-established repository of skills knowledge is called the Occupational Information Network, or O*NET system. If, for example, an accountant puts in a bit of time to review the skills profile for her profession, she will be contributing to the knowledge of everyone in the workforce-training world. Housed in the U.S.

Skills 191

Skills Intelligence Syllabus Language 191

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Each tester isn’t expected to complete the entire course, but to go through at least a week’s worth of the four- to six-week syllabus (with different testers trying different parts of the course). In some cases he decides to eventually take the whole thing, and Coursera waives the usual fee for him to get a certificate if he finishes.

Testing 166

Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The discontinuation reasons included that Zoom was no longer needed; a fear that students wouldn't attend class if Zoom participation was an option or if online; and concerns that students would not pay attention or be engaged (Wong et al., Many classrooms were fitted with cameras and microphones during the pandemic.

Disabilities 52

Disabilities Exams Instructors Syllabus 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. He loved the scope and implications of his subject.

Syllabus 147

Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 147