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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

Faculty Focus

In our college, we aim for courses where students see connections and blend insights rather than just stacking content from different fields. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , 12 (182).

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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

Faculty Focus

In our college, we aim for courses where students see connections and blend insights rather than just stacking content from different fields. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , 12 (182).

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails. While we may not have control over class sizes or course loads, we can manage our workspace, habits, and course procedures. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes.

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Faced with the challenge of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to create course content and respond to emails. While we may not have control over class sizes or course loads, we can manage our workspace, habits, and course procedures. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes.

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Course Design as a Gateway to Student Well-being 

Faculty Focus

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

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Course Design as a Gateway to Student Well-being 

Faculty Focus

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).

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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

Edsurge

A few trees were saved, but courses weren’t any smarter. So if automation and interactivity differentiate a smart phone from a phone, what makes a course “smart”? What attributes of course design and applications of technology transform outcomes and impact, as opposed to gratuitous investment in technology for technology’s sake?