Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As with all course design choices, these ideas are not required for success; you are welcome to choose what feels authentic to your style. In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. reading, watching videos, discussing with peers).

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As with all course design choices, these ideas are not required for success; you are welcome to choose what feels authentic to your style. In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. reading, watching videos, discussing with peers).

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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. He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

How do you fold the remote students into discussions and activities? It’s also essential to have a student in the class, or a teaching assistant, monitor feedback during class via the chat so they can bring comments or questions to you. If you’re new to teaching this type of class, it can seem a little overwhelming at first.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs.

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