Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I used traditional grading practices, assessing student progress through quizzes, tests, project, midterms and finals each year. As I improved it, I also worked on developing a smoother flow and incorporating reflections into the course. From 2011-2015, I continued to iterate on the course design for my class.

Syllabus 156

Syllabus Learning Course Outline History 156

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We can pre-expose students to new information before starting a course or a class with: a welcome letter or email of the course description. a video about a course or topic. pre-test quizzes. low-stakes quizzes and practice tests. color-coding key items in the pre-exposure materials. a workbook to preview.

Knowledge 126

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 126

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 21, 2024

Based on student feedback, make necessary adjustments and/or remind students of the shared agreements (Lovett, et al., Focus on challenge and relevance: We all hope our courses will engage students, challenge their assumptions, require effort, and facilitate the development of deep understandings and skills.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2023

Additionally, this approach balanced the need for high-levels of faculty-student interaction as well as personalized feedback within a growing class size, a previously challenging task. 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

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.

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.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

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. One longer answer was provided by Lloyd Dean: “Ongoing diagnostic and formative assessments are a critical part of the feedback process.

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. HyFlex courses can be deceptively difficult to do well. These are not challenges associated with online courses. Provide course materials.

Learning 105

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 105

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We can pre-expose students to new information before starting a course or a class with: a welcome letter or email of the course description. a video about a course or topic. pre-test quizzes. low-stakes quizzes and practice tests. color-coding key items in the pre-exposure materials. a workbook to preview.

Knowledge 98

Knowledge Quizzes Students Learning 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2023

Educators are available to students and are responsible for designing bi-modal content. Content should incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer choices to students. HyFlex courses can be deceptively difficult to do well. These are not challenges associated with online courses. Provide course materials.

Learning 98

Learning Assignments Course Design Instructors 98

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

JANUARY 21, 2024

Based on student feedback, make necessary adjustments and/or remind students of the shared agreements (Lovett, et al., Focus on challenge and relevance: We all hope our courses will engage students, challenge their assumptions, require effort, and facilitate the development of deep understandings and skills.

Syllabus 103

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Our questions and subsequent review focused on implementing collaborative quizzes. In the fall of 2022, students in three sections of a required 200-level business writing course at a large, Midwestern university (N=72) participated in seven collaborative quizzes and three independent quizzes taken throughout the fall semester.

Quizzes 52

Quizzes Education Multiple Choice Questions Feedback 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

Another method of incorporating microlearning to boost online student engagement is to simply include specific sorts of micro lessons within the course itself which can more-or-less run parallel to the course. Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success. Magna Publications Inc. ,

Student Engagement 110

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 110

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

Another method of incorporating microlearning to boost online student engagement is to simply include specific sorts of micro lessons within the course itself which can more-or-less run parallel to the course. Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success. Magna Publications Inc. ,

Student Engagement 86

Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 86

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. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Wesley Engers has an unusual hobby: beta testing online courses from well-known colleges and universities. He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I

Testing 166

Testing Lecturing Quizzes Textbooks 166

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 143

Course Design Online Learning Teaching Motivation 143