Faculty Focus

AUGUST 11, 2024

Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia. link] The post Cultural Immersion: An Eye-Opening Experience to Facilitate Learning appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Culture Beliefs Learning Interdisciplinary 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 11, 2024

Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia. link] The post Cultural Immersion: An Eye-Opening Experience to Facilitate Learning appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Culture Beliefs Learning Interdisciplinary 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Source: Course Hero. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. Why did it fail?

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

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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Critical Thinking Communication Education Lecturing 149

eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2022

The nonprofit’s credit recovery courses are open for enrollment; students progress through the coursework at their own pace and have up to 15 weeks to complete their coursework. Spanish 1 Credit Recovery introduces students to the Spanish language and the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries.

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Learning Course Design High School High School 140

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In response, universities and educators strive to create and nurture virtual relationships and communities that foster positive relational school cultures, understanding student behavior within a social context (Manassah, Roderick, and Gregory 2018, 39). It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences.

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Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2016

.” As part of this new multi-project initiative, ISTE and Microsoft will bring together resources from the education and technology fields to inspire educators to design and develop schools where technology is woven into the culture and environment.

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Beliefs Course Design STEM Culture 145

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

Learn culture, not language ” might seem like advice for the future, especially since wearable tech is increasingly capable of doing our linguistic heavy lifting. are reporting foreign language teacher shortages , I fear that “learn culture, not language” will be used to justify the removal of foreign language instruction from K-12 contexts.

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Language Languages Failure English 156

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Braithwaite stresses that, “We need awareness of our situatedness—in time, space, in culture and in how we experience the flow of history through us. Moore have organized the self-assessment tool into three sections: The context and design of your course. The text of your syllabus and course design.

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Syllabus Teaching Beliefs Instructors 153

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In response, universities and educators strive to create and nurture virtual relationships and communities that foster positive relational school cultures, understanding student behavior within a social context (Manassah, Roderick, and Gregory 2018, 39). It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences.

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Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Built for Flexibility The first known course that called itself HyFlex emerged in 2006 , at San Francisco State University, taught by Brian Beatty, a professor of instructional design and technology. And one main driver was surprisingly mundane: traffic snarls that routinely kept students from getting to class on time.

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Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 208

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Of course, not every college is willing or able to build a large online-learning infrastructure or change their culture to focus on online classrooms. “It It is not meant to be a ‘something for everyone’ proposition,” said Lou Pugliese, senior innovation fellow and managing director of the Action Lab EdPlus at ASU, in an interview.

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Study Culture Course Design Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sally Baldwin, EdD, researches online course quality, online course design, and course evaluation instruments. Her research is motivated and informed by her work as an instructor and instructional designer within the California community college system. Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain.

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Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 116

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

Colleges and universities often boast of their nonprofit status as putting them above the profit-making motives of the private sector, and edX and its members have touted the academic culture they’ve brought to their course platform. Go to edX and look at the platform for creating courses there—it is cumbersome and difficult,” he adds.

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Fairness Course Design Motivation Internet 206

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

In addition to using technology in my own biology courses, I also work with faculty across the country on how to teach with technology through an inclusive lens. There are certainly ways in which technology can aid this process, but the mindset of inclusion must determine the ways in which that technology is used—not the other way around.

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Technology Teaching Intellectual Development Instructors 167

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2022

It’s an eight-week training course designed to prepare women for apprenticeships and jobs in the skilled trades, which can set them up for careers that start out paying double or triple the minimum wage. In Mississippi, that relegates many women who don’t have higher education to working part-time jobs for close to minimum wage—$7.25

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Participation Culture Course Design Skills 153

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

It was built to be the next step in the factory model, where the future leaders of companies, countries and the academy itself came to be indoctrinated to its cultural norms. Cultural resistance to change is strong across many sectors of higher education.

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Lecturing Culture Course Design Attention 127

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sally Baldwin, EdD, researches online course quality, online course design, and course evaluation instruments. Her research is motivated and informed by her work as an instructor and instructional designer within the California community college system. Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain.

Instructors 105

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice (3rd ed.). Teachers College Press. Hammond, Z. Corwin Press.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 121

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This faculty member may give exams and may collect student artifacts, such as projects or papers, but the faculty really doesn’t connect student performance with the course design or classroom experience. For example, consider a faculty member who pursues assessment for the strict purpose of “satisfying the Dean.” Ted: I haven’t?

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Feedback Course Design Assignments Evaluation 126

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

For instance, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (CAST, 2018) is a commonly used design framework that curriculum developers and educators use to optimize teaching and learning.

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Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

For instance, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (CAST, 2018) is a commonly used design framework that curriculum developers and educators use to optimize teaching and learning.

Learning 111

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2017

DLNchat: Product Pilots & Experimentation #DLNchat: Adaptive Learning in Higher Ed #DLNchat: Scaling Course Design Across Programs #DLNchat: Big Data and Student Privacy #DLNchat: So You Want to Be a (Better) Instructional Designer #DLNchat: Tutoring for Digital Learning #DLNchat: Supporting Diverse Student Populations #DLNchat: Digital v.

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Mobile Devices Learning Participation Course Design 116

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The central tenets of social justice are centered around providing fair and equitable treatment of others as well as access to services, remaining mindful of the diversity of thought, culture, and perspectives one brings to a learning environment, and remaining inclusive in our actions and in creating a welcoming learning environment for all.

Learning 110

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 110

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. Student success is teacher success.

Students 122

Students Motivation Feedback Communication 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I encourage them to select characters from popular culture—whether from comic books, films, or television—so they can connect leadership concepts to characters they already know and admire. Superheroes provide a common cultural reference point, making abstract business concepts more tangible. link] Reilly, E. Works & Days , 32.

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Assignments Teaching Ethics Textbooks 114

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. One TA flew back early, Wesch says, because of “culture shock issues and mental health issues.”

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Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 163

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Through writing, students are exposed to cultural norms embedded in language use and develop the ability to express themselves in ways that go beyond basic survival skills, enhancing their fluency and cultural competence. 2010; Kern, 1992).

Language 124

Language Languages Writing Communication 124

Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

A SWOT analysis The five stages of the Stanford Design Thinking Process were used to structure the course. Design thinking activities and assessments were designed at each stage of the course. Stage 5 in the design thinking process: Test. Interaction Design Foundation. F., & Siang, T.Y.

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Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This faculty member may give exams and may collect student artifacts, such as projects or papers, but the faculty really doesn’t connect student performance with the course design or classroom experience. For example, consider a faculty member who pursues assessment for the strict purpose of “satisfying the Dean.” Ted: I haven’t?

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Assignments Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Postsecondary education in America has historically been committed to inventing courses of study, educational programs, or even whole institutions dedicated to the needs and expectations of its society, peoples, and cultures (Community Colleges, n.d.). However, much of the emphasis has been placed on access rather than preparation.

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Postsecondary education in America has historically been committed to inventing courses of study, educational programs, or even whole institutions dedicated to the needs and expectations of its society, peoples, and cultures (Community Colleges, n.d.). However, much of the emphasis has been placed on access rather than preparation.

Course Design 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The program fosters student agency in learning through solidarity, creates a sense of belonging and self-efficacy for students and instructors, integrates teaching approaches responsive to students’ learning needs, and builds a culture of openness to student feedback (Cavazos, 2024; Cavazos & Chapa, 2023; Cavazos et al., 2017, January).

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Languages 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. Student success is teacher success.

Students 111

Students Motivation Feedback Communication 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Upon graduation or even sooner, our students will be working with people from other countries and cultures, which means they must learn to become globally competent if they are to enter the workplace as culturally competent employees. Good communicators are able to recognize and respond to these cultural differences.

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Culture Assignments Communication Study 98

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

For those that are strongly impacted, how could you: Integrate AI to further students’ learning and achievement of course objectives? What is your discipline’s culture around generative AI use? Modify the assessment to reduce the impact of generative AI? How can you support access for those without it? For students?

Ethics 102

Ethics Multidisciplinary Course Design Confidentiality 102

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice (3rd ed.). Teachers College Press. Hammond, Z. Corwin Press.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98