Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

The future of higher education will bring more hybrid learning models—but colleges may not yet have the staff and systems they need to scale up high-quality programs that blend in-person and online experiences. It’s the seventh edition of the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report.

Hybrid Learning 192

Hybrid Learning Hybrid Courses Learning Exams 192

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

Offering both synchronous and asynchronous options may be referred to as hybrid, blended, or bichronous course delivery, but often these are not flexible enough. Educators will need to be open-minded and flexible as they will be adapting delivery and materials with in-person lessons and changing amounts of students throughout the year.

Course Design 111

Course Design Exams Assignments Learning 111

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

We heard from Albat and Stephanie Del Tufo, assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, who studies individual differences in learning, language and literacy. So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam. We're already in a stressful situation.

Accessibility 217

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 217

Faculty Focus

JULY 4, 2023

Of course, student contempt for a pedagogical tool shouldn’t ground its dismissal. Students don’t typically love exams, but exams remain a mainstay in the educational arena; however, keep in mind that online courses aren’t required to have exams. Journal Of Research On Technology In Education.

Exams 115

Exams Students Instructors Evaluation 115

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Like many education tools, it depends. Faculty risk excluding certain students and impeding their ability to succeed when they aren’t intentional about design and facilitation. It is important that CRS questions mirror questions that might appear on an exam. But other reports show that is not always the case.

Instructors 136

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 136

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. This parallels the concept of pre-courses, which serve as innovative ingredients and preparatory tools in the educational kitchen.

Exams 111

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. food, water, warmth, rest, and security). These assessments must be valid and reliable.

Syllabus 130

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

So it stands to reason that using the term “smart” to describe the application of technology within college courses might have a similar connotation. Online courses are “smart,” one might assume, because they use technology to improve educational outcomes or, at least, create new efficiencies or extend the abilities of faculty and students.

Multiple Choice Questions 125

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 125

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

Offering both synchronous and asynchronous options may be referred to as hybrid, blended, or bichronous course delivery, but often these are not flexible enough. Educators will need to be open-minded and flexible as they will be adapting delivery and materials with in-person lessons and changing amounts of students throughout the year.

Course Design 93

Course Design Exams Assignments Learning 93

Faculty Focus

JULY 4, 2023

Of course, student contempt for a pedagogical tool shouldn’t ground its dismissal. Students don’t typically love exams, but exams remain a mainstay in the educational arena; however, keep in mind that online courses aren’t required to have exams. Journal Of Research On Technology In Education.

Exams 94

Exams Students Instructors Evaluation 94

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Within an institution’s QEP, the assessment plan indicator has to meet acceptable criteria according to SACSCOC.

Fairness 121

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 121

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? In other words, exams do serve a purpose.

Assignments 92

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 92

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But we also fell in love because we are educators who are passionate about assessment. Not only does the formula make for some emotional character arcs, but it also serves as an important reminder for all educators, namely, that assessment can be transformational. Unfortunately, assessment is too often a euphemism for “accountability.”

Feedback 126

Feedback Course Design Assignments Evaluation 126

Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

Early studies of design thinking in business education focused on how the process could be used to solve management problems (Lee & Evans, 2012; Liedtka, 2014; Martin & Martin, 2009). The Business Education Design Thinking Instructional Model (Wickam et al.,

Course Design 115

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 115

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Within an institution’s QEP, the assessment plan indicator has to meet acceptable criteria according to SACSCOC.

Fairness 107

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 107

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Online education was once considered a distant second to in-person classes. Helping universities scale their face-to-face courses to digital environments has become a. Most OPMs are for-profit companies, though at least one nonprofit provider—Educators Serving Educators—exists. Max Woolf Vice President, Tyton Partners .

Curriculum Design 126

Curriculum Design Failure Exams Course Design 126

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But we also fell in love because we are educators who are passionate about assessment. Not only does the formula make for some emotional character arcs, but it also serves as an important reminder for all educators, namely, that assessment can be transformational. Unfortunately, assessment is too often a euphemism for “accountability.”

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Assignments Evaluation 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s won a national teacher-of-the-year award and his viral videos about education earned him praise from Wired magazine. The other half are like, ‘This isn’t on the exam so I’m not going to do this.’” I was not well educated in alternative narratives to why segregations exists.” he remembers.

Textbooks 159

Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 159

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. food, water, warmth, rest, and security). These assessments must be valid and reliable.

Syllabus 88

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 88

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2024

This article highlights strategies employed across varied disciplines, and at various levels, at the University of Arizona and demonstrates that a “career everywhere” approach is effective in meeting the complementary but unique needs of students and educators related to career readiness in higher education.

Interdisciplinary 124

Interdisciplinary Assignments Participation Exams 124

Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

Early studies of design thinking in business education focused on how the process could be used to solve management problems (Lee & Evans, 2012; Liedtka, 2014; Martin & Martin, 2009). The Business Education Design Thinking Instructional Model (Wickam et al.,

Course Design 91

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 91

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

You see, I’ve been working to expand the accessibility of resources at my college for a while, so it was great to see this on the mind of so many other educators. A little background about myself; I love designing, redesigning, and getting creative with my syllabus. If you are an educator, then you are creative.

Syllabus 114

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 114

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. This parallels the concept of pre-courses, which serve as innovative ingredients and preparatory tools in the educational kitchen.

Exams 68

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 68

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Efforts to expand access to higher education have resulted in higher enrollment rates and degree attainment rates making higher education an option that is open to more students than ever before. 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

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning in its many forms is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, one that has been thoroughly tested and shown to be beneficial to a wide spectrum of college students. Barbara Jacoby is a higher education consultant with Barbara Jacoby Consulting.

Learning 122

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Student exam performance then becomes a matter of cramming course content into short-term memory, without ever really mastering, considering, or owning the course material in a meaningful way. In this educational quagmire, Pecha Kucha is an answer. IAFOR Journal of Education. References. Columbi, A.

Lecturing 122

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Efforts to expand access to higher education have resulted in higher enrollment rates and degree attainment rates making higher education an option that is open to more students than ever before. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

Course Design 56

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 56

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2024

This article highlights strategies employed across varied disciplines, and at various levels, at the University of Arizona and demonstrates that a “career everywhere” approach is effective in meeting the complementary but unique needs of students and educators related to career readiness in higher education.

Interdisciplinary 106

Interdisciplinary Assignments Participation Exams 106

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

.” In the current learning environment, students with disabilities encounter significant challenges due to the lack of inclusivity and accessibility in the education system. ii] Contrary to common belief, neurodiverse students represent a significant proportion of the higher education population. For instance, in 2019, 6.2%

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

.” In the current learning environment, students with disabilities encounter significant challenges due to the lack of inclusivity and accessibility in the education system. ii] Contrary to common belief, neurodiverse students represent a significant proportion of the higher education population. For instance, in 2019, 6.2%

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

You see, I’ve been working to expand the accessibility of resources at my college for a while, so it was great to see this on the mind of so many other educators. A little background about myself; I love designing, redesigning, and getting creative with my syllabus. If you are an educator, then you are creative.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

That said, what is it about an optimally designed class that resonates so deeply with my inner teacher? This might involve asking students to write a summary statement, connect course concepts to learning outcomes, or collaborate to create mock exam questions. Cognitive architecture and Instructional Design: 20 Years Later.

Counselling 82

Counselling Learning Lecturing Knowledge 82

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Students could form small groups to review material, create a study guide, and/or work on solving a set of problems to help prepare for the exam. Enhancing Learning and Engagement through Group Work: Effective Strategies for Educations. Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class.

Assignments 96

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 96

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning in its many forms is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, one that has been thoroughly tested and shown to be beneficial to a wide spectrum of college students. Barbara Jacoby is a higher education consultant with Barbara Jacoby Consulting.

Learning 98

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

Student exam performance then becomes a matter of cramming course content into short-term memory, without ever really mastering, considering, or owning the course material in a meaningful way. In this educational quagmire, Pecha Kucha is an answer. IAFOR Journal of Education. References. Columbi, A.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Students could form small groups to review material, create a study guide, and/or work on solving a set of problems to help prepare for the exam. Enhancing Learning and Engagement through Group Work: Effective Strategies for Educations. Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class.

Assignments 76

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 76

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

That said, what is it about an optimally designed class that resonates so deeply with my inner teacher? This might involve asking students to write a summary statement, connect course concepts to learning outcomes, or collaborate to create mock exam questions. Cognitive architecture and Instructional Design: 20 Years Later.

Counselling 60

Counselling Learning Lecturing Knowledge 60