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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

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. In our own teaching, we call these “typical test questions” or TTQs.

Instructors 144

Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Course Design Discussions 144

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APRIL 30, 2020

So one of the challenges we've really been dealing with is test security because of course everyone wants to go right to ProctorU and have that live proctoring experience. So we were able to extend our Respondus Monitor license, which monitors the students during an exam. However, that is obviously very costly.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

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JANUARY 13, 2017

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?

Multiple Choice Questions 127

Multiple Choice Questions Instructors Textbooks Feedback 127

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

But Im not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. Briefly, there are five points I try to address each time I prepare to teach a course: List. While many of my colleagues administer tests immediately before break, I schedule the third exam three weeks later.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

Unique to design thinking is that it encourages people to make mistakes and, in fact, making mistakes is part of the process of growth and solving the problem (Emerson, 2020). The Business Education Design Thinking Instructional Model (Wickam et al., Design thinking activities and assessments were designed at each stage of the course.

Course Design 116

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

But Im not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. Briefly, there are five points I try to address each time I prepare to teach a course: List. While many of my colleagues administer tests immediately before break, I schedule the third exam three weeks later.

Syllabus 100

Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 100

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APRIL 26, 2018

Do exams still serve a purpose? Could tests be replaced by project-based work? 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?

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2023

But I’m not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. Briefly, there are five points I try to address each time I prepare to teach a course: List. While many of my colleagues administer tests immediately before break, I schedule the third exam three weeks later.

Exams 111

Exams Syllabus Course Outline Attention 111

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2023

But I’m not talking about a list of chapters or exams and papers with their due dates. Briefly, there are five points I try to address each time I prepare to teach a course: List. While many of my colleagues administer tests immediately before break, I schedule the third exam three weeks later.

Exams 105

Exams Syllabus Course Outline Attention 105

Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

Unique to design thinking is that it encourages people to make mistakes and, in fact, making mistakes is part of the process of growth and solving the problem (Emerson, 2020). The Business Education Design Thinking Instructional Model (Wickam et al., Design thinking activities and assessments were designed at each stage of the course.

Course Design 98

Course Design Testing Feedback Assignments 98

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. Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience.

Learning 122

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class. 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 108

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 108

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 64

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 64

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 61

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class. 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 91

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 91

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. Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience.

Learning 98

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 98

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JUNE 9, 2020

Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. 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

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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 143

Course Design Online Learning Teaching Motivation 143

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

How do you leverage technology in your course? I’ve automated the grading for my essay test, which I was finally able to do with the help of a friend who programmed me a special little system this past year that I call Alucarda. I can do 30 exams in 15 minutes, which used to take me three days.

Education 126

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 126