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. Providing student feedback on an assessment, or any assignment, provides extensive value.

Fairness 122

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

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. Providing student feedback on an assessment, or any assignment, provides extensive value.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

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. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

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. Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2025

Although the ideas presented in this article stem from a continuous topic of exploration in higher education, (see Beard & Wilson, 2006; Cantor, 1995; Finely & Bowen, 2021; Tormey, 2022 for further research), this article summarizes our learning and interpretations when creating experiential learning opportunities for our students.

Learning 106

Learning Evaluation Students Course Design 106

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2023

This integration of student agency allowed students to play an active role in shaping their own learning experience, not only deepening engagement but also crafting a more personalized and rewarding learning experience. The target course was a completely asynchronous and was redesigned into three blocks, each containing five modules.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Assignments Instructors Students 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2025

Although the ideas presented in this article stem from a continuous topic of exploration in higher education, (see Beard & Wilson, 2006; Cantor, 1995; Finely & Bowen, 2021; Tormey, 2022 for further research), this article summarizes our learning and interpretations when creating experiential learning opportunities for our students.

Learning 99

Learning Evaluation Students Course Design 99

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The program fosters student agency in learning through solidarity, creates a sense of belonging and self-efficacy for students and instructors, integrates teaching approaches responsive to students’ learning needs, and builds a culture of openness to student feedback (Cavazos, 2024; Cavazos & Chapa, 2023; Cavazos et al.,

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning assists students to master complex subjects and to gain a deep understanding of fundamental principles that need to be applied later. Assess the extent to which the students achieved the desired learning outcomes. Some of the questions to address here are: What products will demonstrate learning?

Learning 122

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

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. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

Syllabus 100

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 100

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

It is also a basic part of teaching and learning and aims to make you more aware of your own professional knowledge. Communication is not complete until there is both understanding and feedback. Effective teaching involves progressively refining our courses based on reflection and feedback. T reat everyone with respect.

Evaluation 111

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? If you had to focus on one, two, or three essential factors, what would they be?

Counselling 89

Counselling Learning Lecturing Knowledge 89

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

With the growing demand for contemporary online education, it is crucial to analyze instructional design – a systematic process that applies psychological principles of human learning to develop effective instructional solutions. Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success.

Student Engagement 106

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 106

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. Teamwork When possible, work in teams!

Instructors 52

Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

For example , an undergraduate history course provides an ungraded, self-test quiz at the start of every online unit that allows students multiple attempts at answering a question and provides prescriptive feedback for each attempt. Retrieval practice.

Knowledge 126

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 126

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

It is also a basic part of teaching and learning and aims to make you more aware of your own professional knowledge. Communication is not complete until there is both understanding and feedback. Effective teaching involves progressively refining our courses based on reflection and feedback. T reat everyone with respect.

Evaluation 92

Evaluation Participation Knowledge Learning Styles 92

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning assists students to master complex subjects and to gain a deep understanding of fundamental principles that need to be applied later. Assess the extent to which the students achieved the desired learning outcomes. Some of the questions to address here are: What products will demonstrate learning?

Learning 98

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

With the growing demand for contemporary online education, it is crucial to analyze instructional design – a systematic process that applies psychological principles of human learning to develop effective instructional solutions. Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success.

Student Engagement 82

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 82

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

But it’s increasingly unclear if online learning is living up to its promise for students, even as digital learning makes its way into more institutions’ offerings. The quality of online courses still varies drastically, and research shows there are major racial disparities in digital-learning outcomes.

Instructors 131

Instructors Distance Learning Students Online Learning 131

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? If you had to focus on one, two, or three essential factors, what would they be?

Counselling 67

Counselling Learning Lecturing Knowledge 67

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

For example, research in educational psychology often is characterized by efforts to investigate isolated interventions, in carefully controlled laboratory conditions, under short time frames, using motivated participants and focusing on learning outcomes like retention.

Laboratory 97

Laboratory Failure Education Study 97

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

For example , an undergraduate history course provides an ungraded, self-test quiz at the start of every online unit that allows students multiple attempts at answering a question and provides prescriptive feedback for each attempt. Retrieval practice.

Knowledge 98

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 98

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

2020; Lang 2021; McRee 2012), results are often self-reported assessments and focus on the characteristics of the instruction such as good course design or expert presentation; less typically does the research focus solely on the learner (Gore et al., I then modified the instruction based on their feedback, immediately.

Teaching 52

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Problem-Based Learning 52