Faculty Focus

AUGUST 17, 2023

When preparing to teach a graduate-level curriculum and assessment in physical education & health education course, I asked myself, “What is the best way to teach future educators about curriculum and assessment?” They submitted different sections of the curriculum each week and were provided with feedback by the professor.

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Curriculum Physical Education Assignments Learning 97

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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Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 269

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Careful Course Design It starts with the digital course design process. At Southern New Hampshire University, which has more than 90,000 online students, “eLearning Librarians” are involved in curriculum development from the outset, says Trisha Prevett, one such e-librarian for the school.

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eLearning Course Design Students Distance Learning 162

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far.

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Fairness Education Students Disabilities 166

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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Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 122

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

At Aiken County Career and Technology Center in South Carolina, students in a computer-aided drafting and design course designed and printed a wheelchair for a dog. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out these 4 steps to create a strong 3D printing curriculum. Manufacturers Offer 3D Printing Curriculum Support.

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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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Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

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. VHS Learning course design and delivery standards were the model used by the National Education Association when they created the first standards for online learning.

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Learning Course Design High School High School 141

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

All classes follow an easy-to-use course design: establish goals–what students will learn by the end of the class. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Teaching Education Learning Assignments 180

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Still, knowing that many educators retired at the end of the past school year, I can imagine that on a larger scale, those entering the workforce face unprecedented challenges such as course design and managing an online platform. . 4 Action Steps to Prepare New Teachers to Use Edtech.

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Technology Teachers Evaluation Course Design 159

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

Our district’s curriculum team includes a variety of members with roles designed to support teachers to work through these areas. My colleague Dr. Melinda Scheetz, the literacy coordinator for our district who designed our district’s PD for shifting to our new phonics curriculum, agrees.

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Teachers Course Design Participation Discussions 213

Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rachel Thelen , The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Noelle Haight , Occupational Therapist and Educator Julia VanderMolen , University of the Pacific Key Statement: Four helpful tips, including backwards design, for the new instructor looking to (re)design their course.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Parra , an assistant professor at New Mexico State’s department of curriculum and instruction learning design & technology, says she’s offered her students the opportunity to use their own languages to complete activities. “To She takes the approach of co-designing.

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Culture Teaching Syllabus English 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2021

I cannot fault them, nor can I fault many of the teachers who had little experience in course design and the pedagogy behind it. . She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Distance Learning Assignments Feedback Course Design 168

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

I typically build MOOCs, but this spring, I designed an online program for a cohort of 16 nonprofit leaders. We used a combination of video chat, Slack and curriculum materials hosted on a learning management system. Participants gathered online each week for seminar-style conversations, case study discussions and peer critiques.

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Online Learning Instructors Learning Quizzes 159

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. These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment. References Billings, Dianne M., and Judith A.

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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. These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment. References Billings, Dianne M., and Judith A.

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Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 67

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment. She serves as the principal course developer and curriculum designer who possesses a high level of proficiency in a student-centered approach to curriculum development, design, building, and delivery.

Learning 111

Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 111

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

CEO and founder Dan Sommer says with the added funds, his company will be looking at growing its offerings to nearly 10 programs in subject areas like user experience and design. Most students wouldn’t know Trilogy had anything to do with their course design, however.

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Skills Instructors Coaching Education 141

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. Source: Course Hero. That’s the engineering side of my brain. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Curriculum provider launches 1,600 new direct-instruction videos, state-specific courses, enhanced assessment item types, and new lessons and projects. Odysseyware , a provider of dynamic, individualized online courses for K-12 education, today announced its summer release of more than 250 new national and state-specific courses.

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Course Design History Math Feedback 107

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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Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 81

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.

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Schools Laboratory Languages Language 144

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2016

They will be developed with the support and guidance of ISTE and Microsoft and will contain renowned curriculum created by leading edX university partners. The first course will be available for enrollment on edx.org starting in September 2016 and is scheduled to begin in December 2016.

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Beliefs Course Design STEM Culture 130

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

Teachers enroll now in new online professional development courses designed to improve student achievement in reading and math. Both the Lexile and Quantile courses offer an interactive curriculum featuring direct instruction, knowledge checks, summative assessments and performance tasks. DURHAM, N.C.

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Teachers Education Math Achievement 130

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Learn more about the Six Red Marbles' Learning Experience Design team , and how they moved Boston College's courses online. The difference between good and great course designers is the ability to serve as the eyes of the students,” says Evenchik.

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Learning Gamification Course Design Textbooks 141

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This September, twenty years after I entered high school, my colleagues and I at America Achieves rolled out “ Quest for Success ,” a free career exploration course designed to ensure students know about and are prepared for careers of the future.

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Students Attention Textbooks Assignments 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Seven years ago, that first course redesign was a big shift for me. I had been teaching eighth grade geography for four years at that point, and historically, I had used a textbook and pacing chart to cover the curriculum. As I improved it, I also worked on developing a smoother flow and incorporating reflections into the course.

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Syllabus Learning Course Outline History 159

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

For more structured courses designed specifically for K-12 classrooms and language labs, Transparent Language offers real-time courses and customizable, curriculum aligned content. Students without opportunities to use their target languages in their own communities can use Verbling to chat with native speakers.

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Language Languages Failure English 157

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rather than creating online degree programs from scratch, Noodle is outsourcing various aspects—recruitment, curriculum design—to other companies and bundling together the services for universities. Perhaps the university wants to outsource recruitment and analytics for its online program but handle the curriculum design internally.

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Curriculum Design Failure Exams Course Design 132

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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Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 72

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements. It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences. These services can help students transition from education to employment successfully.

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Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment. She serves as the principal course developer and curriculum designer who possesses a high level of proficiency in a student-centered approach to curriculum development, design, building, and delivery.

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Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 92

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. Women in Construction uses a curriculum that offers nationally recognized credentials.

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Participation Culture Course Design Skills 155

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Be Present Being present in your online course goes beyond delivering the curriculum and providing assignment feedback. Sally Baldwin, EdD, researches online course quality, online course design, and course evaluation instruments. It is an ongoing process that fosters a sense of connection and builds trust.

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Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 116