Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Be Present Being present in your online course goes beyond delivering the curriculum and providing assignment feedback. Consider using video for announcements, lesson overviews, and feedback. Let students know when they may expect announcements, feedback on assignments (along with where to access them), and office hours.

Instructors 116

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 116

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.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 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 122

Students Motivation Feedback Communication 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Be Present Being present in your online course goes beyond delivering the curriculum and providing assignment feedback. Consider using video for announcements, lesson overviews, and feedback. Let students know when they may expect announcements, feedback on assignments (along with where to access them), and office hours.

Instructors 105

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 105

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 both Brookhart and Vygotsky, action is often driven by feedback. You haven’t switched tactics in a week.

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Assignments Evaluation 111

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.

Technology 167

Technology Teaching Intellectual Development Instructors 167

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.,

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Languages 98

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. Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

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. Incorporating Feedback Based on the feedback, there were clear ways to improve this activity in future iterations.

Language 124

Language Languages Writing Communication 124

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

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.

Course Design 116

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 116

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 67

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 67

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 62

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

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. Incorporating Feedback Based on the feedback, there were clear ways to improve this activity in future iterations.

Language 98

Language Languages Writing Communication 98

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.

Course Design 98

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 98

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

How a school defines student success influences its design and impacts critical aspects such as professional learning, curriculum, assessment and school culture. In some cases, the framework’s quadrants are central to course design, impacting curriculum, instruction and the student experience.

Schools 144

Schools Laboratory Languages Language 144

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Communication is not complete until there is both understanding and feedback. By working collaboratively, faculty can create communities that positively change the culture and instructional delivery. Effective teaching involves progressively refining our courses based on reflection and feedback.

Evaluation 111

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 94

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 94

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Hint: That’s why last week, we asked you for some direct feedback on how we’re doing.) As we continue to grow, we’re eager to continue hearing your feedback. University of Michigan (where I went to grad school) provided me such an experience, so it was great to read how my alma mater has grown a culture of academic innovation.

Textbooks 82

Textbooks Learning Feedback Course Design 82

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 89

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 89

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Communication is not complete until there is both understanding and feedback. By working collaboratively, faculty can create communities that positively change the culture and instructional delivery. Effective teaching involves progressively refining our courses based on reflection and feedback.

Evaluation 95

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 95

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We offer online courses, facilitated online courses that are taught by our own faculty and staff in the system. All of this is anchored in course design and online teaching, not one or the other. We also do monthly webinars and one-day conferences.

Instructors 134

Instructors Distance Learning Students Online Learning 134

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The rubric aims to achieve standards in the following six categories: course alignment, getting students started and overview, organization and representation, accessible course design, engagement and interaction, and assessment and feedback. Interested in the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

Feedback 52

Feedback Course Design Art Culture 52

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

2020; Lang 2021; McRee 2012), results are often self-reported assessments and focus on the characteristics of the instruction such as good course design or expert presentation; less typically does the research focus solely on the learner (Gore et al., I then modified the instruction based on their feedback, immediately.

Teaching 52

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Problem-Based Learning 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

While many of these hastily-created online experiences are improvisational rather than well-engineered learning programs, the increased use and awareness of the kinds of digital educational tools available could underlie a new culture of more evidence-based teaching. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

At worst, instructors with this mindset could resign themselves to grading work written by AI and hope most students are still writing their own papers and learning from feedback. Assign writing that relies on student perspective, experience, and cultural capital. Writing based on human experience.

Assignments 122

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

At worst, instructors with this mindset could resign themselves to grading work written by AI and hope most students are still writing their own papers and learning from feedback. Assign writing that relies on student perspective, experience, and cultural capital. Writing based on human experience.

Assignments 98

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98