Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As with all course design choices, these ideas are not required for success; you are welcome to choose what feels authentic to your style. It is possible that maximizing all five components may produce a course that is more stressful than interesting. One hundred years of work design research: Looking back and looking forward.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 4, 2020

I am fielding questions about how to set up online courses , design online lessons , and offer small group instruction and support via video conferencing. Understandably, the focus is on online learning as that is a new and unfamiliar learning landscape for a lot of educators.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2015

The point is, of course, that you probably can Google every single concept you currently teach and your students know this well. An added challenge is to grapple with the informal course designs that are popping up all over the net. We might reference this phenomenon as “kitchen table” pedagogy.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Most teachers don’t have prior experience or professional development in teaching online courses effectively. Related post: Leading eLearning and a Future Ready library opportunity.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2021

How were you able to apply the content after completing the courses? If you’re struggling to remember these basic aspects of the last course you completed, the course design could likely benefit from some improvement. How were you assessed?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Free for all educators and school districts, the one-hour, eight-lesson course provides educators with essential knowledge about AI and approaches for ensuring student safety and privacy. “With this course, we are taking a proactive approach to support and educate teachers on the front lines and prepare for this transformation.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. Tessa Wolf strengthened our commitment to inclusive course design. Sheza Shaikh centered mental health and belonging in her writing.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. A teacher’s fallback practice may be to grade on a curve; however, curved grading is philosophically flawed in most course level applications.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2024

Key points: The new AI course is built for teachers and provides hands-on practice to gain experience 4 ways to ensure academic integrity as AI tools gain popularity K-12 schools aren’t ready for AI’s risks or benefits For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Google and MIT RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) (..)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

BATAVIA, IL (AUGUST 19, 2022) Flinn Scientific releases updated free laboratory safety courses designed specifically for middle and high school science teachers. . Just in time for the 2022-2023 school year, Flinn Scientific has released new Lab Safety courses for middle and high school science educators.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

We were course designing and co-teaching,” she said. We talked about pedagogy, how to really engage students online, making sure [teachers were] building not just that surface-level [resources], but digging deeper online. As the pandemic abated, teachers were left with more freedom to incorporate online and hybrid resources.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The initiative includes the Path to Pro Skills Program, offering on-demand courses designed to prepare participants for six trade-based careers, including electrical, drywall, paint, plumbing, HVAC and general construction. Interested students explore free programs developed by experts in the construction profession.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Digital course helps high schoolers develop critical skills they’ll need for workplace success. As the number of U.S. high school graduates pursuing postsecondary education declines, the U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Scratch is designed for students ages 8 to 16. Additional free partner resources include the following: Interactive Biology Course: ADInstruments and Vernier have partnered to create a free interactive biology course designed for college instructors to use in their remote learning instruction.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2023

The CDP is an online portal where teachers access and navigate Ellipsis courses. Designed to be mobile-responsive, the CDP makes the curriculum teachers know and love easier to use.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

With a commitment to ensuring educational excellence and student success, in 2020, UF CJC Online developed a comprehensive course design strategy to elevate its online courses, a mission mandated by the State University System of Florida’s 2025 Strategic Plan for Online Education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Careful Course Design It starts with the digital course design process. For that reason, Matthews is not a fan of distance learning programs that outsource course design and accompanying library resources to online program managers , or OPMs. “I

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy. Registration is now available for courses designed to help educators address learning challenges in remote instruction, explore education technology tools and develop both synchronous and asynchronous instruction for learners.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

With a commitment to ensuring educational excellence and student success, in 2020, UF CJC Online developed a comprehensive course design strategy to elevate its online courses, a mission mandated by the State University System of Florida’s 2025 Strategic Plan for Online Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The theoretical framework for the report includes the work of Rose and Mayer and their three overarching principles of effective UDL course design: Presentation , action and expression , and engagement and interaction. In presentation , the course provides learners with various way of acquiring information and knowledge.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

BetterLesson announced BL Connect , an online library of quick, self-directed courses designed to bring actionable professional education to every teacher. BL Connect courses build upon educators’ past successes, connecting the dots between professional learning and everyday practice.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

Here are summaries of the four essential elements of successful online courses, according to the playbook. Course Design Instructors should ask themselves: What do you want students to learn in your course? The answer to this question will help identify the right class materials, activities and assessments to use.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Research on faculty perceptions suggests that the ideal enrollment for online courses is lower than what they would consider suitable for high-enrollment courses, with course design playing a crucial role. With fewer students, instructors can more easily track progress and adapt the course based on individual needs.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

Inclusive and accessible course design Quality Matters, the gold standard for online education, emphasizes the importance of course design that encourages learner interaction and engagement, while providing adequate learner support and assurance that all materials are accessible.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

“Academics are just as critical as athletics in shaping a student’s future, and our mission has always been to invest in student-athletes with the resources they need to succeed in every aspect of their journey,” said Ryan Kiick, CEO of Revolution Prep.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

The empathetic course design perspective. Cueing engagement: Applying the trickle-down engagement model to instructors in-class behaviors. Teaching of Psychology, 52 (1), 45-52. Saucier, D. Schiffer, A. A., & Renken, N. Applied Economics Teaching Resources, 4 (4), 101-111. Saucier, D. Miller, S. Martens, A. L., & Jones, T.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

the leading Impact-as-a-Service TM education innovator, announced the development of the nation’s first healthcare literacy course designed for high school students. New program addresses barriers that lead to social disparities; students learn to make important health and financial decisions. EVERFI Inc.,

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has launched a short online course designed specifically to help educators create rich and meaningful opportunities for communication within the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches this August with three online sessions.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has launched a short online course designed specifically to help educators create rich and meaningful opportunities for communication within the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches in August with three online sessions.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Research on faculty perceptions suggests that the ideal enrollment for online courses is lower than what they would consider suitable for high-enrollment courses, with course design playing a crucial role. With fewer students, instructors can more easily track progress and adapt the course based on individual needs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

In this interview with EdSurge, Maurer explains her goals for the project and emphasizes the importance of comptent online course design. The relationship that an instructor builds with an instructional designer is really, really important. So far, the network has 300 volunteers and counting. This is a partnership we develop.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

One of the challenges of course design is that all our work can seem perfectly clear and effective when we are knee-deep in the design process, but everything somehow falls apart when deployed in the wild. If you’d like to try this approach yourself, here’s a template prompt you can use with AI systems.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., 2022 for a discussion of the empathetic course design perspective). This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. This empathetic course design perspective is important to us. Raimondi, 2019).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Faculty risk excluding certain students and impeding their ability to succeed when they aren’t intentional about design and facilitation. What do we mean by an inclusive classroom? But using these tools successfully requires careful consideration.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Students debated the best ways for educators and course designers to build fair and valuable grading schemes, and many brought up their concerns over how the current model for testing and grading doesn’t work for all students. Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

Inclusive and accessible course design Quality Matters, the gold standard for online education, emphasizes the importance of course design that encourages learner interaction and engagement, while providing adequate learner support and assurance that all materials are accessible.

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