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.

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

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.

Instructors 52

Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

For optimal effectiveness, the pre-course purpose should be clearly defined with student learning outcomes that inform, excite, and prepare students for their upcoming course material. After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex.

Exams 115

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we?

Assignments 80

Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 80

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

It requires coordination among faculty members, negotiation of curriculum, teaching styles, and grading criteria, and developing a sense of community among students from diverse disciplines. Definitions of interdisciplinary research: Toward graduate-level interdisciplinary learning outcomes. Measuring learning outcomes.

Interdisciplinary 111

Interdisciplinary Study Multidisciplinary Students 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we?

Assignments 66

Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 66

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

It requires coordination among faculty members, negotiation of curriculum, teaching styles, and grading criteria, and developing a sense of community among students from diverse disciplines. Definitions of interdisciplinary research: Toward graduate-level interdisciplinary learning outcomes. Measuring learning outcomes.

Interdisciplinary 98

Interdisciplinary Study Multidisciplinary Students 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On a practice and policy level, there is widespread agreement that formative assessment and feedback should be featured within course design and delivery (Carless & Winstone, 2019). During our monthly QEP Professional Learning Community (PLCs) sessions, we are deliberate about creating a data-driven environment.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 13, 2022

in the UK’s Framework for Higher Education Qualifications, QAA, 2014) and for specific course design (e.g. in the language of learning outcomes for the later stage modules of programs). The Spiral Curriculum in Higher Education: Analysis in Pedagogic Context and a Business Studies Application. Woodward, Russell.

Teaching 98

Teaching Learning Critical Thinking Evaluation 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 13, 2022

in the UK’s Framework for Higher Education Qualifications, QAA, 2014) and for specific course design (e.g. in the language of learning outcomes for the later stage modules of programs). The Spiral Curriculum in Higher Education: Analysis in Pedagogic Context and a Business Studies Application. Woodward, Russell.

Teaching 98

Teaching Learning Critical Thinking Evaluation 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

For optimal effectiveness, the pre-course purpose should be clearly defined with student learning outcomes that inform, excite, and prepare students for their upcoming course material. After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex.

Exams 73

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 73

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 101

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 101

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On a practice and policy level, there is widespread agreement that formative assessment and feedback should be featured within course design and delivery (Carless & Winstone, 2019). During our monthly QEP Professional Learning Community (PLCs) sessions, we are deliberate about creating a data-driven environment.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

To facilitate implementation, we have categorized the strategies from the perspectives of course designers, content creators, and those delivering the content or workshops. We also list a few simple suggestions for improving learning spaces. Here are a few key suggestions to make the course more accessible.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

To facilitate implementation, we have categorized the strategies from the perspectives of course designers, content creators, and those delivering the content or workshops. We also list a few simple suggestions for improving learning spaces. Here are a few key suggestions to make the course more accessible.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Faculty professional development should revolve around two sets of principles to make teaching and learning more effective and to create conditions to support student learning. Teaching principles Effective teaching involves acquiring relevant knowledge about students and using that knowledge to inform our course design.

Evaluation 111

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 111

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To better understand implicit linguistic biases in our teaching, we must partner with others, especially students, to gain perspectives on how we can model critical consciousness in curriculum design (Cavazos, 2024). University of Illinois and Indiana University, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA).

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

He started asking his students about their post-graduation goals and trying to connect their interests, like digital photography and music, more explicitly to the curriculum. So far, OpenStax Tutor is available for beta testing in physics, biology and sociology courses. Open materials return some power to professors.

Textbooks 118

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 118

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Faculty professional development should revolve around two sets of principles to make teaching and learning more effective and to create conditions to support student learning. Teaching principles Effective teaching involves acquiring relevant knowledge about students and using that knowledge to inform our course design.

Evaluation 93

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 93

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Tinto (2016), who is a distinguished university professor and expert on university student retention, listed the following factors to improve retention: self-efficacy, sense of belonging, and perceived value of the curriculum. According to NECC (2021), universities can also improve retention by: Collect retention data. References: Hale, M.

Syllabus 52

Syllabus Study Learning Outcomes Curriculum 52

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

2022 for discussion of empathetic course design). Please understand that the inclusion of such content in this course is not meant to cause distress on your behalf, but rather to expand your knowledge of these topics and how they manifest in the world around us. The empathic course design perspective. Saucier, D.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

2022 for discussion of empathetic course design). Please understand that the inclusion of such content in this course is not meant to cause distress on your behalf, but rather to expand your knowledge of these topics and how they manifest in the world around us. The empathic course design perspective. Saucier, D.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111