Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Just as a chef with pre-developed culinary skills meticulously selects ingredients and carefully plans before creating a masterpiece, educators must equip students with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary for their academic success. Pharmacy preparation courses have also been shown to boost cumulative GPAs (Klausner et al.

Exams 114

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 114

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 97

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 97

Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

A SWOT analysis The five stages of the Stanford Design Thinking Process were used to structure the course. Design thinking activities and assessments were designed at each stage of the course. Students were asked to consider their transferable skills in identifying their strengths and development needs.

Course Design 115

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 115

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When developing our institution’s QEP, we had to ensure our assessments aligned with two main categories: formative , which describes tasks or skills that are in process or being formed, and summative , which evaluates the sum total of skills or comprehension achieved. Diagram 2 below describes the distinction.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When developing our institution’s QEP, we had to ensure our assessments aligned with two main categories: formative , which describes tasks or skills that are in process or being formed, and summative , which evaluates the sum total of skills or comprehension achieved. Diagram 2 below describes the distinction.

Fairness 110

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 110

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

As the director of a Center for Teaching and Learning, I have a window into how many faculty think about teaching, learning, and preparing for a new course/term. If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials.

Syllabus 96

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 96

Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

A SWOT analysis The five stages of the Stanford Design Thinking Process were used to structure the course. Design thinking activities and assessments were designed at each stage of the course. Students were asked to consider their transferable skills in identifying their strengths and development needs.

Course Design 96

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 96

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2024

Students have the flexibility to select from courses that prepare them for graduate school or hone their professional career skills. As they approach their final year, students can opt for a leadership course that equips them for life beyond college.

Interdisciplinary 124

Interdisciplinary Assignments Participation Exams 124

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. Studies show that the Pecha Kucha style can improve English speaking skills in general. References. Robinson, R.

Lecturing 122

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. We can immediately correct misconceptions or misapplication of data rather than waiting until students make the errors in homework or on exams.

Learning 122

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2024

Students have the flexibility to select from courses that prepare them for graduate school or hone their professional career skills. As they approach their final year, students can opt for a leadership course that equips them for life beyond college.

Interdisciplinary 110

Interdisciplinary Assignments Participation Exams 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2024

Think about changes directed at some aspect of the course: assignments, exams, in-class activities, the feedback you provide to students. It makes sense to target whatever’s making the course tough to teach. But if you’re not terribly motivated, it wise to go with any targeted change that sparks your interest.

Motivation 110

Motivation Exams Lecturing Questions 110

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

Just as a chef with pre-developed culinary skills meticulously selects ingredients and carefully plans before creating a masterpiece, educators must equip students with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary for their academic success. Pharmacy preparation courses have also been shown to boost cumulative GPAs (Klausner et al.

Exams 70

Exams Quizzes Students Course Design 70

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2024

Think about changes directed at some aspect of the course: assignments, exams, in-class activities, the feedback you provide to students. It makes sense to target whatever’s making the course tough to teach. But if you’re not terribly motivated, it wise to go with any targeted change that sparks your interest.

Motivation 108

Motivation Exams Lecturing Questions 108

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Developing these skills is not only important academically but will also be beneficial to students in their future careers. 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.

Assignments 104

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 104

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

Course Design 60

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 60

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. Studies show that the Pecha Kucha style can improve English speaking skills in general. References. Robinson, R.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

Course Design 59

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 59

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

These challenges may include problems with left-right distinction, depth perception, spatial awareness, language skills, and vocabulary. To facilitate implementation, we have categorized the strategies from the perspectives of course designers, content creators, and those delivering the content or workshops.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

These challenges may include problems with left-right distinction, depth perception, spatial awareness, language skills, and vocabulary. To facilitate implementation, we have categorized the strategies from the perspectives of course designers, content creators, and those delivering the content or workshops.

Disabilities 98

Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. We can immediately correct misconceptions or misapplication of data rather than waiting until students make the errors in homework or on exams.

Learning 98

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Developing these skills is not only important academically but will also be beneficial to students in their future careers. 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.

Assignments 84

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 84

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.

Course Design 149

Course Design Online Learning Teaching Motivation 149

Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2023

exam scores increased post adjustments). We should welcome the unfamiliarity of new and blended course designs and strive to build courses based on the best approach for the content regardless of the format, rather than revert to the comfort of analog lecturing. For example, Ardissone et al. 3: 403-412. link] Beatty, B.

Lecturing 126

Lecturing Course Design Blended Courses Instructors 126

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In a paper Koedinger co-published in Science , he found that as instructors consider their course design and teaching options during a typical college course, they’re picking from trillions of possibilities.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2023

exam scores increased post adjustments). We should welcome the unfamiliarity of new and blended course designs and strive to build courses based on the best approach for the content regardless of the format, rather than revert to the comfort of analog lecturing. For example, Ardissone et al. 3: 403-412. link] Beatty, B.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Course Design Blended Courses Instructors 98