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Lumen Learning, a Proponent of OER, Makes First Acquisition to Offer Faculty Coaching

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Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost OER textbooks and courseware, plans to start offering professional development services for faculty that can be bundled with its titles. In other words, some of its textbooks are now sold with coaching on how to teach with OER more effectively.

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Care for Faculty in Challenging Times: Considerations for Exploring Hope and Healing

Faculty Focus

Universities are increasingly concerned about student success during this era of the Great Disengagement, and faculty success (more specifically, providing care to faculty so they can succeed and in turn support the needs of students) should be an equal priority.

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Care for Faculty in Challenging Times: Considerations for Exploring Hope and Healing

Faculty Focus

Universities are increasingly concerned about student success during this era of the Great Disengagement, and faculty success (more specifically, providing care to faculty so they can succeed and in turn support the needs of students) should be an equal priority.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Currently, she is working as a senior faculty development specialist at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Qatar University.

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The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

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Teacher educators, including coaches, faculty development staff, and professional development specialists, need to ensure that educators are ready to shift to emergency remote teaching should the occasion arise in the future.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

Currently, she works in faculty development at the Excellence in Teaching and Learning Center at Qatar University. Dr. Amal Farhat is an experienced educator and instructional coach with a background in both K-12 and higher education across the private and public sectors.