eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As November 8 th approached, I made sure to leave extra class time to allow my communications students to discuss the upcoming presidential election, hoping to align their discussions with topics on my syllabus. My only rule was that they were to be respectful in their comments. This is especially apparent during an election cycle.

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Syllabus Teachers Counselling Beliefs 226

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Avoid confusing instructions.

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Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. syllabus) to identify any logistical rigor that may distract students from what is most important about the learning process and outcomes for the course (Supiano, 2022).

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al., How to create and use rubrics for formative assessment and grading.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.” In a dramatic departure from convention, grading is not performed by instructors or TA’s, but by “evaluators,” experts who don’t interact with students directly. It turns out he was right.

Teaching 177

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 177

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Avoid confusing instructions.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Utilize the Wise feedback model. Use formative assessment.

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Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 119