Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

If you are teaching courses online, have you considered that the planning and preparation to teach online is markedly different than teaching in-person? Although higher education courses have been offered online for many years, the COVID-19 pandemic forced most courses to go online in a rush.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. 2016 Brightspace Awards for Excellence Winners.

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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.

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Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 115

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We can pre-expose students to new information before starting a course or a class with: a welcome letter or email of the course description. a video about a course or topic. pre-test quizzes. low-stakes quizzes and practice tests. color-coding key items in the pre-exposure materials. a workbook to preview.

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Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 126

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Wesley Erwin, III , Indiana University Bloomington Keywords: Pedagogy, Relationship-Rich Education, Engaged Learning Key Statement: Meaningful teaching and learning should include evidence-based, relationship-rich education tailored to respective contexts. Image courtesy of Shane Rounce, Unsplash.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

“Educator” is used throughout this paper to represent professor, instructor, teacher, or any person or team that leads learning sessions. Scheduling and delivery of courses offered in various modalities can be problematic for colleges and universities. The solution is to offer all courses as bi-modal flexible courses.

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Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 105

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

We need to design student-centered learning experiences and that takes time, practice and support. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus. The Syllabus Gets a Facelift.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Such practices can lead to mistrust between students and faculty, harming the educational relationship. Ambrose, S.

Plagiarism 123

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 123

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

“Educator” is used throughout this paper to represent professor, instructor, teacher, or any person or team that leads learning sessions. Scheduling and delivery of courses offered in various modalities can be problematic for colleges and universities. The solution is to offer all courses as bi-modal flexible courses.

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). Technology integration played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between campuses.

Teaching 94

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 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 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

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.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. Hybrid-Flexible course design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes (1st ed.). Technology integration played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between campuses.

Teaching 89

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 89

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We can pre-expose students to new information before starting a course or a class with: a welcome letter or email of the course description. a video about a course or topic. pre-test quizzes. low-stakes quizzes and practice tests. color-coding key items in the pre-exposure materials. a workbook to preview.

Knowledge 98

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2023

As online education continues to evolve, the challenge to create meaningful and engaging learning experiences is paramount. Traditionally, the one-size-fits-all approach to assessment has been dominant, with all students completing the same activities throughout the course.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Assignments Instructors Students 98

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 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

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 116

Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

The shift to virtual learning, accelerated by the global pandemic, has fundamentally transformed the way education is delivered. As a result, the lasting impact of this transition, along with the necessary adaptations, continues to reshape how education is offered to its target market.

Student Engagement 112

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 112

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 77

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 77

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Such practices can lead to mistrust between students and faculty, harming the educational relationship. Ambrose, S.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

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. On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning?

Assignments 101

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 101

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 105

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 105

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. Team teaching in nursing education.

Instructors 52

Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52

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

APRIL 15, 2025

The shift to virtual learning, accelerated by the global pandemic, has fundamentally transformed the way education is delivered. As a result, the lasting impact of this transition, along with the necessary adaptations, continues to reshape how education is offered to its target market.

Student Engagement 89

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 89

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Or at least, edited. colleges use at least one.

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Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said. But at a university? “We

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Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Wesley Engers has an unusual hobby: beta testing online courses from well-known colleges and universities. He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I

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Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

He has been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Garg, who is now one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching bestowed by Baylor University. You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. Email tgraham@coursehero.com.

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Lecturing Course Design Assignments Quizzes 144

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers.

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Course Design Online Learning Teaching Motivation 149

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He has also been selected as a Master Educator by the education technology company Course Hero , which produced a ten-minute film that features Stepanic and his crowd-pleasing class. I am going to rework the course from the ground up. Professor Stanley Stepanic What do you cover in your course? I’ll keep the title.”

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Education Lecturing History Quizzes 132

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. What would you tell other educators who want to move some or all of a course online? Every week there is a book reading quiz.

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Syllabus Quizzes Lecturing Assignments 146