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

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements. It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences. These groups can provide a sense of belonging and peer support.

Accessibility 105

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

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

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements. It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences. These groups can provide a sense of belonging and peer support.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

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 Languages 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward. Gough began her teaching career in higher education in 1991 and facilitated the transition of ground campus courses to online courses in 2007. No black and white slides.

Student Engagement 95

Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 95

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction. Personalized Feedback : AI tools like Grammarly flag errors, allowing instructors to refine feedback with comments like, “Expand this argument,” blending efficiency with mentorship (Pritts, 2023).

Faculty Development 91

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 91

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed. References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction. Personalized Feedback : AI tools like Grammarly flag errors, allowing instructors to refine feedback with comments like, “Expand this argument,” blending efficiency with mentorship (Pritts, 2023).

Faculty Development 86

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward. Gough began her teaching career in higher education in 1991 and facilitated the transition of ground campus courses to online courses in 2007. No black and white slides.

Student Engagement 67

Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 67

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

At worst, instructors with this mindset could resign themselves to grading work written by AI and hope most students are still writing their own papers and learning from feedback. Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. What is AI incapable of doing in its writing?

Assignments 122

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

At worst, instructors with this mindset could resign themselves to grading work written by AI and hope most students are still writing their own papers and learning from feedback. Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing. What is AI incapable of doing in its writing?

Assignments 98

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98