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 109

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Early in my career, one chapter per week described my course outline. For some, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. When times abundant, some teachers read books like Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design , a thoughtful, research-based system. It wasnt an effective system.

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Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 105

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. Why do you not keep office hours?

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Five strategies to foster sense of belonging Be caring and authentic: Syllabus policies and language, as well as introductory comments on the first day of class, set the tone for an entire term. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. Analyze your course policies (i.e.,

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. A new author they can add to their course to make it more diverse and inclusive. A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. Give the why of the course and the material that they will learn. Start strong. Lynch-Sauer, J.,

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Early in my career, one chapter per week described my course outline. For some, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. When times abundant, some teachers read books like Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design , a thoughtful, research-based system. It wasnt an effective system.

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Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 94

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Be Present Being present in your online course goes beyond delivering the curriculum and providing assignment feedback. In addition to having these services available in your syllabus and throughout your course, a warm handoff to connect students with these services will likely build trust.

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Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Moreover, an instructional designer with administrative privileges, such as senior ID, director, or assistant dean, can work collaboratively with faculty and administration to create important policies and procedures, promote one-stop-shop modalities, and recommend innovative and transformative practices for learning.

Schools 122

Schools Authentic Assessment Syllabus Evaluation 122

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

To do so, he claimed, faculty need to move away from the usual mindset of taking a textbook, identifying modules and organizing lectures designed around a cookie cutter curriculum. Palmer works to help faculty design deeply memorable moments in class through an activity called “the dream exercise.”

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Instructors Syllabus Textbooks Lecturing 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Be Present Being present in your online course goes beyond delivering the curriculum and providing assignment feedback. In addition to having these services available in your syllabus and throughout your course, a warm handoff to connect students with these services will likely build trust.

Instructors 105

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 105

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Early in my career, “one chapter per week” described my course outline. For some, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. When time’s abundant, some teachers read books like Wiggins and McTighe’s Understanding by Design , a thoughtful, research-based system. Jossey Bass Inc.,

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Exams Syllabus Course Outline Attention 109

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.

Course Design 60

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 60

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Early in my career, “one chapter per week” described my course outline. For some, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. When time’s abundant, some teachers read books like Wiggins and McTighe’s Understanding by Design , a thoughtful, research-based system. Jossey Bass Inc.,

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Exams Syllabus Course Outline Attention 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Moreover, an instructional designer with administrative privileges, such as senior ID, director, or assistant dean, can work collaboratively with faculty and administration to create important policies and procedures, promote one-stop-shop modalities, and recommend innovative and transformative practices for learning.

Schools 104

Schools Authentic Assessment Syllabus Evaluation 104

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.

Course Design 59

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 59

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). What does the language in the syllabus/assignment assume about students (e.g.,

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Five strategies to foster sense of belonging Be caring and authentic: Syllabus policies and language, as well as introductory comments on the first day of class, set the tone for an entire term. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. Analyze your course policies (i.e.,

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 96

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 did his Rice University students, who were not immediately gripped by the formulas he taught in class. Open materials return some power to professors.

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Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

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.

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Syllabus Study Learning Outcomes Curriculum 52

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

2022 for discussion of empathetic course design). Practical ways to provide content disclosures When there is content in your course that may be potentially distressing, this should be clear to your students in the course syllabus. The empathic course design perspective. What is a content disclosure?

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Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

2022 for discussion of empathetic course design). Practical ways to provide content disclosures When there is content in your course that may be potentially distressing, this should be clear to your students in the course syllabus. The empathic course design perspective. What is a content disclosure?

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Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. Now the course is offered each semester and a whopping 3,000 students take it in any given school year. You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. The great thing about geography is.

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Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 147